讲员

Tamer Yacoub
MD
Michelle Hartley-McAndrew

Michelle Hartley-McAndrew, MD. Dr. McAndrew is the medical director of the Children’s Guild Autism Spectrum Disorder Center at the Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. She also is a Clinical Assistant professor of Child Neurology at the University at Buffalo. She trained in Pediatrics and Child Neurology at the University at Buffalo and also completed a fellowship in Neurophysiology in 2008. She is board certified in both Pediatrics and Child Neurology and her interests include epilepsy and autism.

Maria Mody

Maria Mody, PhD.Dr. Maria Mody is a developmental neuroscientist at the MGH Athinoula A Martinos Center of Biomedical Imaging and an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. She uses a combination of functional MRI and magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate a variety of cognitiveprocesses, including language, attention and executive function in children with dyslexia and autism as well as in typical development. She is a reviewer for several journals and her work has been presented both nationally and internationally. She will be speaking about her research on visuospatially-mediated language processing and the underconnectivity hypothesis in high-functioning autism.

John Zhang

John Zhang, PhD, has been practicing, teaching and researching Chinese medicine for 20 years including 10 years at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is a professor of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and president of Massachusetts Society of Chinese Medicine. He has published over 40 papers about Chinese medicine and is an editor of Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine and associate Editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Complicated & Difficulty Cases. He is the founder of AcuHealing-Boston Acupuncture & Herb Center

Weidong Lu

Weidong Lu, MB, MPH, PhD; Dr.Lu is Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the lead acupuncturist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He also is Professor in Chinese Medicine at the New England School of Acupuncture, Newton, MA. He is the first recipient of The Bernard Osher Foundation/ The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) CAM Practitioner Research Career Development Award (K01) from NIH. As an investigator, co-principal investigator and principal investigator, he has designed and conducted several NIH-funded acupuncture clinical trials in cancer care. His research interest focuses on evidenced-based acupuncture practice for cancer patients; Chinese herbal medicine and its interactions with western pharmaceuticals.

Dr. ZhenZhen Zhang

Dr. ZhenZhen Zhang is a professor of New England School of Acupuncture, licensed Acupuncturist and Herbist and practice in Waltham, MA and also working in North Shore Medical Center, Woman’s center in Danvers, MA. Dr.Zhang graduated from Hebei Medical School and majored in TCM and graduated from China Academy of TCM majored in Acupuncture, she worked in the department of Psychology and Tokyo University as a visiting scholar, and a Herbal consultant for Isikura herbal company of Japan.

Devin Houston
Helen V. Ratajczak
PhD

Helen V. Ratajczak has been conducting research on immunology and toxicology since 1967. Her research became focused on autism in 1996 when her three-year-old grandson was diagnosed with the disease. Up to date, Dr. Ratajczak has published more than 80 manuscripts and numerous abstracts for presentations at international and regional conferences. While working for Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Ratajczak wrote two drug discovery programs for autism. She was also a Visiting Scientist in 2009-2010 with the Wadsworth Center/NY State Department of Health, where she discussed various aspects of autism. In addition, a proposal by Dr. Rataiczak entitled “Objective Measure of Autism” was authorized by the New England Institutional Review Board in 2011 and is currently funded by Edmond Enterprises, LLC. She is executive committee member of ACMES and peer reviewer of North American Journal of Medicine and Science.

Pages