Peter Eckman

ISTRUZIONE

B.S. with honors in Chemistry, City College of New York, 1965
Ph.D., Physiology, New York University,
Ph.D., Physiology, New York University, M.D., New York University, 1972
Graduate, West Coast Acupuncture Research Institute, Los Angeles, 1973 Lic. Ac., College of Chinese Acupuncture, Oxford, England, 1974 Preceptorship with Chae Woo Lew, O.M.D., C.A., a Korean traditional acupuncturist, 1974-1984 Graduate, National Physician’s Training Program in Humanistic Medicine, Institute for the Study of Humanistic Medicine, San Francisco, 1977 B.Ac., College of Chinese Acupuncture, Leamington Spa, England, 1981 Graduate, course in “Theoretical Foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine” by Dr. Xie Zhu-fan of Beijing Medical College, given at Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, 1981 Graduate, course in “Auriculotherapy” by Paul Nogier, MD., San Francisco, 1982 Graduate, course in “Energetics” by Maurice Mussat, M.D., San Diego, California, 1983 Graduate, Acupuncture Training Program of Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, San Francisco, 1983 M.Ac., College of Traditional Acupuncture, Leamington Spa, England, 1985 Preceptorship with Kuon Dowon, O.M.D., C.A., the founder of Constitutional Acupuncture, Seoul, Korea 1987-1988 Graduate, course in Chinese Herbal Medicine” by S. Dharmananda, University of San Francisco, 1986-1987 Preceptorship with Yoo Tae Woo, founder of Korean Hand Acupuncture, 1985-1995
Lic. Ac., College of Chinese Acupuncture, Oxford, England, 1974 Preceptorship with Chae Woo Lew, O.M.D., C.A., a Korean traditional acupuncturist, 1974-1984 Graduate, National Physician’s Training Program in Humanistic Medicine, Institute for the Study of Humanistic Medicine, San Francisco, 1977 Ac., College of Chinese Acupuncture, Oxford, England, 1974
Preceptorship with Chae Woo Lew, O.M.D., C.A., a Korean traditional acupuncturist, 1974-1984
Graduate, National Physician’s Training Program in Humanistic Medicine, Institute for the Study of Humanistic Medicine, San Francisco, 1977
B.Ac., College of Chinese Acupuncture, Leamington Spa, England, 1981
Graduate, course in “Theoretical Foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine” by Dr. Xie Zhu-fan of Beijing Medical College, given at Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, 1981
Graduate, course in “Auriculotherapy” by Paul Nogier, MD., San Francisco, 1982
Graduate, course in “Energetics” by Maurice Mussat, M.D., San Diego, California, 1983
Graduate, Acupuncture Training Program of Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, San Francisco, 1983
M.Ac.College of Traditional Acupuncture, Leamington Spa, England, 1985
Preceptorship with Kuon Dowon, O.M.D., C.A., the founder of Constitutional Acupuncture, Seoul, Korea 1987-1988
Graduate, course in Chinese Herbal Medicine” by S. Dharmananda, University of San Francisco, 1986-1987
Preceptorship with Yoo Tae Woo, founder of Korean Hand Acupuncture, 1985-1995

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Clinical Instructor, Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford University Medical Center, 1975-1976
Consultant for Research Project on “Acupuncture and Post-Operative Pain” at Stanford University Medical Center, 1975
Private General Practice with a specialty in Acupuncture Therapy, 1974 – present
Medical Director, Oriental Medical Research Center, Oakland, CA, 1974-1984
Member, The North American Acupuncture Association, 1981
Chief Trainer of Acupuncture Examiners, California State Acupuncture Examination, 1982
Member, Acupuncture Examining Committee, California State Board of Medical Quality Assurance, 1986 – 1989
Member, Foreign Relations Committee, NCCA, 1987 – 1989
Adjunct Faculty, College of Traditional Acupuncture (U.K.), Leamington Spa, 1993 -1997
Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Maryland University of Integrative Health, 2017

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

Closing the Circle, Lectures on the Unity of Traditional Oriental Medicine, Peter Eckman and Stuart Kutchins, published by Shen Foundation, Fairfax, California, 1983
The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liu Yan-Chi; Peter Eckman, and Kathleen Vian, editors, Columbia University Press, 1988
Koryo Hand Acupuncture, Volume 1, Tae Woo Yoo; Peter Eckman, editor, Eum Yang Mack Jin Publishers, Soeul, Korea, 1988
The Book of Changes in Traditional Oriental Medicine, Peter Eckman, The Traditional Acupuncture Foundation, Columbia Maryland, 1988
The Secret Treatise of the Spiritual Orchid, Claude Larre and Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée; Foreword by Peter Eckman, Monkey Press, Cambridge, England, 1992
Some New Evidence For Dating The Trigrams Of The I Ching, Steve Moore and Peter Eckman, Fortean Studies, Vol. 1, pp.300-303, John Brown Publishing, London, England, 1994; Reprinted in The Oracle, Journal of the I Ching Society Vol. m
In the Footsteps of the Yellow Emperor; Tracing the History of Traditional
Acupuncture, Peter Eckman, Cypress Book Co., San Francisco, 1996
Contemporary Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, Claire Cassidy, editor. Chapter 2: “The Theory of Oriental Medicine,” pps.12-41 by Peter Eckman. Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia, 2002
Traite d’acupuncture, Jean Borsarello et. ”Histoire de l’acupuncture contemporaine,” pps.11-17 by Peter Eckman, Masson, Paris 2005
The Compleat Acupuncturist; A Guide to Constitutional and Conditional Pulse Diagnosis, Peter Eckman, Singing Dragon Press, London, 2014
Grasping the Donkey’s Tail; Unraveling Mysteries from the Classics of Oriental Medicine, Peter Eckman, Singing Dragon Press, London, 2017.
The Scientific Basis of Ayurvedic and Chinese Medicine, chapter 10 in Nutrition and Integrative Medicine: A Primer for Clinicians, Bakhru, A. (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2017.
Acupuncture Pulse Diagnosis and the Constitutional Conditional Paradigm, Published by Peter Eckman, 2022.
Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture and Science, Chinese Medicine and Culture (Shanghai), 2022