Mark your Calendars Today!

- Expo 2008 – October 16-19
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine - Your Passport to Better Health
Chicago Westin Northshore, Wheeling, IL

The horizon of AOM is ever expanding. Each year as the AAAOM Expo Season rises, we are able to pause and appreciate the tangible growth of our profession within the context of the program that unfolds. How far have we come? Let’s take a closer look at what’s happening as we view some keynote highlights for this year’s event:

Josephine Briggs, director of the NCCAM, will open the conference General Session as our Keynote Speaker, articulating New Directions at NCCAM as she also seeks to better elucidate the research needs of our profession. Judy Becker Worsley is joining us from the UK to offer a Thursday pre-conference eight hour workshop on Classical Five Element Acupuncture and Spirit of the Points. Sherman Cohn, professor of law at Georgetown University, will deliver the keynote address at our annual banquet: Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine in the United States...History as a Passport to Now. Lixing Lao will lecture on evidence-based Electroacupuncture and encourages attendees to bring an EA device for the hands-on workshop. Yong-Suk Kim and a team of three Korean acupuncturists will journey from Korea to share their knowledge and practice of Korean Saam acupuncture. Miki Shima will unpack case histories from the Shang Han Lun masters. Challenges, Opportunities, & Paradigms for the Treatment of Infertility will be featured by a team of six fertility specialists from the U. S. and Canada. These represent just a few of the events that will tantalize, educate, inform, and energize you.

Registration formally opens the week of May 12th. The brochure is now available online. Or see our current lineup of exhibitors. Watch for your personal copy of the Expo 08 brochure which will premier in a mailbox near you this May, or join us in reading the Expo Edition of The American Acupuncturist, Volume 44 this June.

It’s a fun journey leading up to the event as our contact with you, our members and AOM colleagues expands. Old friendships are fortified and new ones are formed. Join us as we formally welcome this year’s Keynote Speakers to Expo 2008!

Deborah Lincoln, RN, MSN, LAc, DiplAc Conference Co-Chair

Claudette Baker, LAc, DiplAc Conference Co-Chair

WELCOME EXPO 2008 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

© Paul Fetters, Courtesy of HHMI Josephine P. Briggs, MD, Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, is an accomplished researcher and physician. Dr. Briggs received her AB in biology from Harvard-Radcliffe College and her MD from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency training in internal medicine and nephrology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship at Yale, then worked as a research scientist at the Physiology Institute at the University of Munich. In 1985, Dr. Briggs moved to the University of Michigan where she held several academic positions, including associate chair of research in the Department of Internal Medicine and professorships in the Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Physiology. She joined the National Institutes of Health in 1997 as director of the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. In 2006, Dr. Briggs accepted a position as senior scientific officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Briggs has published more than 130 research articles. She has served on the editorial boards of several journals and was deputy editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Briggs is an elected member of the American Association of Physicians and the American Society of Clinical Investigation and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Volhard Prize of the German Nephrological Society, the Alexander von Humboldt Scientific Exchange Award, and NIH Director's Awards for her role in the development of the Trans-NIH Type I Diabetes Strategic Plan and her leadership of the Trans-NIH Zebrafish committee.

Judy Becker Worsley, JD, DAc (U.K.), DiplAc (NCCAOM) began her acupuncture studies in England under Professor J.R. Worsley. In 1974, she received her licentiate degree from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture, (CTA) UK. Judy then earned her bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees from CTA. She traveled extensively with J.R. Worsley, conducting seminars for students, teachers and patient consultations. continuing this work following Professor Worsley’s death in 2003. With J.R. Worsley she founded the Master Apprentice Program (MAP™) in 1997 to develop practitioners of the Classical Five-Element Acupuncture tradition.

Sherman Louis Cohn, JD, has been a professor at the Georgetown University Law School since 1965. He specializes in the fields of civil procedure and professional responsibility and has published various books and articles on those subjects in recent years. Before joining the Law Center faculty, he served as a clerk for Judge Charles Fahy of the D.C. Circuit and in the Appellate Section of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. He is a member of the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia bars and is also a member of the American Law Institute, the American Judicature Society, and the Society of American Law Teachers. He served as the Administrator of Preview of U.S. Supreme Court Cases from 1976-79 and as Director of Continuing Legal Education at the Law Center from 1977-84. From 1982-93, he served as chair of the National Accreditation Commission for Schools and Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. From 1983-87, he served as president of the American Section of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and as deputy president of the International Association. He is currently the President of the Jewish Law Association. He has also served as a director of the Foundation for Mideast Communication. From 1985-87, he served as chair of the Georgetown Annual Fund. Earlier he served as chair of the Georgetown Law Fund. During 1997-98, he lectured in Germany, Columbia, Russia, Korea, China, Japan, and Paraguay, and in 1999 in Italy.

Korean Delegation: The AAAOM cordially welcomes the four-member Korean delegation from Kyung Hee University. Drs. Yong-Suk Kim OMD, PhD, Shanghoon Lee, OMD, PhD, LAc, Kyung-sub Lee, OMD, PhD and Deok-Sang Hwang, OMD, MOM, will journey from Seoul, Korea to speak as a panel to Expo 2008 attendees on Korean Saam Acupuncture.