Biographies for 2008 Featured Speakers

Eric Brand, L.Ac.

Eric Brand is a graduate of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Prior to his coursework at Pacific College, he studied Chinese language, religion, history, and cultural studies at the University of Colorado and the National Chengchi University in Taiwan. As a long-term resident of Taiwan, Eric completed a prolonged clinical internship in the Department of Chinese Medicine at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taipei.  Beyond his internship in the departments of gynecology, pediatrics, internal medicine, and acupuncture at the hospital, Eric studied Chinese language and medicine with Dr. Nigel Wiseman and Dr. Feng Ye. To complement his clinical training in mainstream Chinese medical environments, Eric has a cultivated interest in Chinese herbal pharmacy, which he has pursued through an extended apprenticeship with a lineage-trained pharmacist and extensive travel and research of herbal quality discernment in mainland China. 

Eric currently works as a translator and editor for Paradigm Publications, and in the past he has also worked in Beijing as a translator, consultant, and chief coordinator for China’s largest Chinese medical publisher, Ren Min Wei Sheng Chu Ban She.  He is the co-author of the Concise Chinese Materia Medica, and has edited a variety of modern and classical texts, including Case Histories from the Personal Experience of Jiao Shu-De, Pathomechanisms of Heart Disease, Pathomechanisms of Liver Disease, A Heart Approach to Gynecology (Yi Zong Jing Jian), and Pathomechanisms of Spleen Disease.  Eric has a passion for issues relating to Chinese language and translation, and he is a standing member of the advisory committee on English language terminology for the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies. Eric is also active in the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM); he is the Chair of the AAAOM's Terminology Committee as well as the Chair of International Affairs for the AAAOM. Eric is the President of Legendary Herbs, and he has a passion for ginseng and hot springs.

Eric Brand is speaking on Saturday.