About the Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation

Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating the public and health-care practitioners about classical traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and natural self-healing. Through our educational programs, publications, and practitioner resources, we hope to advance the practice and integration of authentic traditional Chinese medicine in Western society.

The TCM World Foundation's objectives include:

• To serve as a source of information on the philosophy, principles, theories, modalities, and practice of authentic TCM and the classical Chinese internal martial arts, such as Qigong and Taiji.
• To support the practice of authentic TCM to widen health-care options for the public.
• To support an expanded concept of health and healing in contemporary medicine.
• To educate individuals on the steps they can take in prevention and self-healing.
• To foster a dialogue between Western and Eastern medical schools and communities in the US to improve the quality of training for practitioners of TCM.
• To facilitate forums for interdisciplinary collaborations.
• To foster balance and harmony in the individual, the community, society, and the world as a whole.

The Foundation's educational efforts focus on the full system of TCM, which includes: herbal therapy, acupuncture, acupressure, internal martial arts, the prescription of foods for healing, and Chinese psychology. The educational components of the Foundation are geared toward the general public and health-care professionals as well as organizations from both the mainstream and complementary and alternative medicine communities.

About Dr. Nan Lu, Founder, TCM World Foundation

Nan Lu, OMD, LAc, is the founding director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation and its sister organization, the Tao of Healing. Dr. Lu holds a doctorate from Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medcine, Hubei, China, and is a New York State-licensed acupuncturist. Classically and university-trained, Dr. Lu is a master herbalist as well as an internationally recognized Taiji expert and Qigong master and the best-selling author of three TCM books published by Harper Collins.

Possessing a gift of cross-cultural communication, Dr. Lu lectures internationally and frequently partners with doctors of Western medicine using a preventive and complementary approach. His specialties include women's health, cancer and immune system disorders and stress management. His continuing educational efforts also include the following web sites:
www.tcmworld.org, www.tcmconference.org, www.breastcancer.com.

Dr. Lu is the founder of Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine, a landmark conference for healthcare professionals. Dr. Lu has served as an advisor to the Rosenthal Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He currently serves on the boards of: The National Association of Transpersonal Psychology, The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, and is an executive board member of the Center for Culturally Competent Education and Training, School of Social Welfare, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Dr. Lu has been featured in Newsweek (special issue on alternative medicine) and was a subject of the PBS documentary Harmony and Spirit: Chinese Americans in New York.

Foundation Accomplishments

Since 1992, the Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation has taken a leadership role in introducing traditional Chinese medicine to Western audiences. Among our accomplishments:

• Launched the Breast Cancer Prevention Project, the first large-scale educational initiative to use TCM to help women prevent breast cancer and breast cancer recurrence. It includes the Web site BreastCancer.com as well as workshops and programs with women's organizations and medical institutions, including the Iris Cantor Women's Health Center at Cornell University and SHARE.
• Introduced The Dragon's Way, which has helped thousands of participants address the root cause of their weight problems. It is now taught at the Center for Health and Healing at Hackensack University Medical Center, New Jersey, Bergen County's largest employer.
• Launched Traditional Chinese Medicine World, the largest nationally distributed newspaper dedicated to educating consumers and health-care professionals about the benefits of the full system of TCM and its role in preventive health care and integrative healing. It has a readership of 180,000 through distribution in 50 states and several Canadian provinces; all major US schools of Oriental medicine and acupuncture; all branches of the New York City Public Library, university libraries, and many other libraries nationwide; more than 350 hospitals with centers of Complementary and Alternative Medicine; and numerous consumer-oriented locations.
• Published, with HarperCollins, a series of educational health-care books for the general public on TCM for breast cancer prevention, weight management and stress, and natural menopause without the use of hormones: A Woman's Guide to Healing from Breast Cancer, A Woman's Guide to a Trouble-Free Menopause, and A Natural Guide to Weight Loss That Lasts.
• Convenes the medical conference Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine in cooperation with major medical and educational institutions including Mount Sinai School of Medicine; School of Social Welfare, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Hackensack University Medical Center; UCLA Center for East-West Medicine, and others.
• Co-created, with Hubei College of TCM in Hubei Province, China, a certificate program for Qigong Meridian Therapy (QMT), providing professionals with more than 300 hours of authentic TCM training.
• Participated in more than 200 print, radio, and television interviews on TCM for breast cancer, menopause without hormones, and weight and stress management.
• Launched the weekly radio program "Ancient Wisdom for Today's Wellness."