Why on earth would acupuncturists want to discuss and learn more about research? ‘East Asian medicine’ is not just ‘acupuncture, and ‘Research’ is not just ‘RCT’s’. Research has a wide variety of practices: observational methods that seek to understand without intervening; qualitative methods that seek to learn from participants directly; and action research methods that seek to change the world by engaging stakeholders like us and our patients as researchers!
Lucky us, eminent acupuncture researcher Lisa Conboy is joining White Pine Circle, and in collaboration with Claudia Citkovitz will be bringing phenomenal live and recorded content including:
- Monthly Journal Club meetings, discussing both what’s new in the research world and what’s relevant for clinical practice (or talking to patients and docs)
- Library Corner, where Lisa and colleagues present articles and other resources, and moderate forum discussions.
- Systematic online instruction in various types of research are why they are important for acupuncturists to understand. Lisa will present a series of online courses from skill building to be educated consumer of research, to ways to participate in research.
Group Leaders
Lisa Conboy has conducted health research and taught research methodology to students of sociology, biomedicine, and complementary medicine for over 30 years. With degrees in public health and sociology, she specializes in the study of traditional and complex health systems. She is published in the areas of Women's Health, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, qualitative research methodology, and complexity science. An Instructor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, she is also the Director of Academic Research at Maryland University of Integrative Health. Dr. Conboy is the chair of the Research Committee of the American Society of Acupuncturists.
Claudia is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on Acupuncture treatment for women during Labor and Delivery as well as patients recovering from Stroke. As one of a small number of US acupuncturists with a research PhD, she works actively to improve acupuncture research methodology and practice-informed research, as well as evidence-informed practice.
Claudia Citkovitz began her Chinese Medicine studies in 1997, assisting in the practice of Tom Bisio while attending Pacific and Tri-State Colleges. She also studied at the Beijing Language and Cultural Institute in China. She is currently in private practice at the White Pine Clinic in Amherst, Massachusetts.
For 17 years, Claudia was Preceptor and Director of the Acupuncture Program at Lutheran Medical Center (now NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn), a 466-bed community hospital in Brooklyn, NY. Through the program, she treated inpatients in the Neurological/Orthopedic Rehabilitation and Labor and Delivery units as well as pain and cancer patients throughout the hospital, training over 300 acupuncture students and practitioners in the provision of evidence-informed inpatient acupuncture care.
Claudia has been s a lecturer or clinical instructor at numerous Master’s and Doctoral level acupuncture programs throughout the US as well as Europe and the UK. She has published research in acupuncture during Labor and Delivery and acupuncture research methods, and completed her PhD on acupuncture during stroke rehabilitation under Volker Scheid at the University of Westminster in London. She is a peer reviewer and Editorial Board member of multiple journals, a Board Member of the Society for Acupuncture Research, and a Commissioner on the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine.