Qualification of Practitioners
Acupuncturists & Herbalists
Tuina Massage Therapists
Tai Chi Instructors

Directors
Care Coordinators

Acupuncturists at Chi Wellness are trained at medical schools and hospitals in China. They have years of experience working in China and in the Boston areas. They are licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine (Lic. Ac.). Tuina massage therapists at Chi Wellness are trained in China. They are licensed by the City of Boston Department of Health Inspectional Services. Our treatment team for chronic conditions is usually led by a licensed acupuncturist who also practice other therapies including herbal medicine, cupping, and acupatch as well as supervise Tuina massage.

Acupuncturists and Herbalists

Wendy Wen Tian, Lic. Ac., Herbalist
Ms. Tian obtained her Bachelor of Medicine in Acupuncture from Beijing College of Acupuncture, Moxibustion & Orthopedics in Beijing, China, in 1994. She worked as an acupuncturist at Haidian Hospital in Beijing from 1994 to 1998. She has been practicing acupuncture in Boston since 2000.

Jaesun Yoo, Lic. Ac., Herbalist
Ms. Yoo obtained her Master in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from New England School of Acupuncture, Watertown, MA in 2006, and Bachelor in Biology from Binghamton University, State University of New York in Binghamton, New York in 1998. She worked as an herbal pharmacist at NESA Herbal Pharmacy from 2005 to 2006.

Jian Kong, Lic. Ac., Herbalist
Mr. Kong obtained his Bachelor of Medicine degree from Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Jianan, Shandong, China in 1993, and his Master of Medicine degree from China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibusion in Beijing, China in 2004. He worked as a researcher and acupuncturist at China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine between 1996 and 2000. Since he became a licensed acupuncturist in Massachusetts in 2000, he has been investigating the effect and mechanism of acupuncture at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. He has published approximately 20 research papers in peer reviewed journals including the Journal of Neuroscience and Neuroimage.

George Mandler, Lic. Ac. Herbalist
Mr. Mandler obtained his Master’s Degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from New England School of Acupuncture in 2006, and his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, in 1987. He has been a nutrition consultant in combining functional nutrition with Eastern modalities since 2003.

Greg Zhiguo Xiang, Herbalist
Mr. Xiang obtained his Bachelor of Medicine in TCM from Liaoning Univ. of TCM, Shenyang, Liaoning, China in 1981. He worked as acupuncturist and herbalist at the Teaching Hospital of Liaoning Univ. of TCM from 1982 to 1996. He served as Chairman of Acupuncture Department, and associate professor. Since 1996, he practiced acupuncture, herbal medicine and Tuina in the U.S. He was a licensed acupuncturist in Illinois and Wisconsin, and is currently preparing for his application of acupuncture license from Mass. Board of Medicine. He received Diplomates in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology from NCCAOM in the U.S. in 1999.

David Wang, Herbalist
Mr. Wang obtained his Bachelor of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Orthopedics & Traumatology from Fujian College of TCM in Fuzhou, Fujian, China in 2000. He worked as physician at the Orthopedics & Traumatology Department of Fuzhou No. 2 Hospital from 2001 to 2005. He is currently preparing for NCCAOM exams for Diplomate in Acupuncture.

Alan Wang, Herbalist
Mr. Wang obtained his Bachelor of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Wuhan, Hubei, China in 1988. He worked as physician at the Wuhan Union Hospital in Wuhan, China from 1989 to 2000. He has been practiced herbal medicine and Tuina in Northboro, MA.

Greg Zhiguo Xiang, Herbalist

Alice Shunyee Tang
Ms. Tang received her Tuina training at Hong Kong Blind Society in Hong Kong, China in 1990. She practiced massage in Hong Kong for over 10 years.

Eric Guanghui Tang
Mr. Tang had worked in clinics in China from 1970 to 1984. He had practiced acupressure in Japan from 1988 to 1990.

Tai Chi Instructor

"Martin" Dae Liu
Mr. Liu has been practicing Chinese martial arts since a very young age in China. Mr. Liu teaches various styles of Tai Chi.

Directors

Miles Chong Chen, PhD, Director/Founder
Mr. Chen works with practitioners to develop procedures and programs for applying TCM to better treat chronic conditions and for evaluating treatment effectiveness. He helps practitioners to work with patients and physicians to build better integration between TCM and the Western medicine. He also develops and coordinates research projects and educational programs. He obtained his BS in Marine Biology from Xiamen University, China in 1982, MS in Computation & Neural systems from Caltech in Pasadena, CA in 1989, and PhD in Neurobiology from USC in Los Angeles, CA in 1993. Previously he worked at MIT's Howard Hughes Medical Institute as a research neuroscientist and published a number of biomedical papers in SCIENCE and CELL. His interest in TCM originated in his childhood, when his parents were pharmacists in China.

Dr. Chen hopes to bring wellness culture into the main stream American life, in contrast to a increasingly pervasive trend in quick fixes and consumer mindset. He coins a term, WELLISM to represent the search for foundamental understanding and practice of sustainable well-living. For example, how can we maximize our innate healing capacity to fight chronic conditions? How can we maintain a natural balance using our wellness instincts developed over the course of evolution? His cultural view of wellness was strongly influenced by Daoism (or Taoism) and by peasants in a mountainous village in southeastern China. After high school he became a farmer from 1975 to 1978 in the remote village, where daily farming life remained unchanged for over two thousand years. Villagers practiced wellness routines and used natural remedies to prevent diseases.

Jaesun Yoo, Manager of Herbal Pharmacy
See above for Ms. Yoo's biography.