March 21-25, 2025: Endocrinology with Guanhu Yang Ph.D., M.D(China), L.Ac.

Graduated from Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1985 and was admitted to Nanjing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the same year to pursue a graduate degree in the study of warm diseases. From 1987 to 1993, he served as a lecturer in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College. In 1993, he was awarded the Sasakawa Medical Scholarship and was sent by the Ministry of Health to the First Department of Internal Medicine at Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University in Japan to conduct research on diabetes. Two years later, he transferred to the Graduate School of Respiratory Medicine at Kanazawa Medical University, where he earned his Doctor of Medicine degree.

In 1999, he moved to the United States and conducted postdoctoral research in respiratory physiology at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center. From 2005 to 2009, he served as the president of SHI Acupuncture School in Ohio. He is currently a first-level professor at the Swiss University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a clinical professor at Ohio University College of Medicine, a professor and doctoral advisor at Macau University of Science and Technology, and a professor at the Alberta College of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine in Canada. He is also a visiting professor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang University of Chinese Medicine, and Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine. Additionally, he serves as the foreign director of the International Acupuncture and Rehabilitation Research Institute at Wenzhou Medical University.

He is a doctoral advisor at Five Branches University in California, Texas Health and Science University, Atlantic Institute of Oriental Medicine in Florida, American Academy of Health and Wellness in Minnesota, and the Nanjing/UK Shulan College of Chinese Medicine in the UK. He holds leadership positions as the president of the American Association of Collateral Disease, vice president of the American Society of Chinese Medicine, executive director of the American Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, advisor to the New York Licensed Acupuncturists Association, and acupuncture consultant for the Ohio State Medical Association. Furthermore, he serves as an executive committee member of the Supervisory Board of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS), a member of the WFCMS Diabetes Diagnosis and Treatment Standards Committee, a standing director of the WFCMS Internal Medicine Committee, vice president of the WFCMS Digestive Diseases Committee, vice president of the WFCMS Endocrinology Committee, vice president of the WFCMS Formula and Pharmacology Research Committee, and vice president of the WFCMS State-Targeted Differentiation and Treatment Committee.

In the United States, he holds acupuncture licenses in Ohio, New York, Maryland, and Virginia. He owns two traditional Chinese medicine clinics and serves as a peer reviewer for several SCI journals, including eBiomedicine. He is also an editorial board member of Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion and World Journal of Acupuncture-Moxibustion, deputy editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Clinical Acupuncture and New England Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and guest editor-in-chief for fourteen special issues, including Frontiers in Immunology.

He has been invited multiple times to lecture at prestigious institutions, including the Harvard Traditional Chinese Medicine Forum. He has participated in the editing and translation of 18 books on traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine and has published over 180 research papers, primarily in SCI journals.