Josef Brinckmann is the Vice President of Research and Development of Traditional Medicinals and is one of the company’s guiding visionaries for the past nearly 30 years, based in Sebastopol, California. Josef believes in “the conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants, preservation of traditional health care systems, and the ethical promotion of natural health care and healthy living.” Josef is a Board Member of the FairWild Foundation, which “promotes the sustainable use of wild-collected ingredients, with a fair deal for all those involved throughout the supply chain.” FairWild Foundation
Andrew Ellis is the founding owner of Spring Wind Herbs in Berkeley, California and has authored, translated, or co-translated several books on Chinese medicine including Grasping the Wind, The Clinical Experience of Dr. Shi Neng-Yun, Notes from South Mountain, Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine and the recently released second edition of Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas & Strategies. Spring Wind Herbs
Lixin Huang, M.S., is the president of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM) in San Francisco, California, where she has emerged as a leader in defining and advancing the use of traditional Chinese medicine in American health care. Lixin is active at the international level with organizations that focus on the protection of endangered species and work to ensure that such species found in the Chinese Materia Medica are not used in practice. American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
William McNamara is the Executive Director of Quarryhill Botanical Gardens, located in Glen Ellen, California, whose mission is “Advancing the Conservation, Study, and Cultivation of the flora of Asia”. Bill received the prestigious 2009 Eloise Payne Luquer Medal from the Garden Club of America. This award recognizes “special achievement in the field of botany”, and is a great honor for Bill and Quarryhill both. Quarryhill Botanical Garden
Liu Ming is a euro-American who over the last 40 years has had the great good fortune to study and practice Chinese Daoism, Chan/Zen and Tantric Buddhism with several great teachers. He holds a degree in Asian aesthetics (art/philosophy) and has been teaching aspects of Chinese medicine and astrogeomancy for several decades. He currently lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. Da Yuan Circle
Robert Newman, L.Ac. has been practicing Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine since 1993 and is a specialist in Chinese herbal medicine. Robert has taught and lectured about wholistic medicine and Chinese medicine at San Francisco State University, California Healing Arts College, Yo San University of TCM and the Whole Life Expo. He created and developed the Chinese herb garden for five years at ACTCM and spent one and a half years as the curator of the Chinese herb garden at the Nanjing Institute of Botany in China. He’s currently an instructor and clinic supervisor at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine in Santa Monica and has a private practice in the San Fernando Valley. Newman Acupuncture
