Training Programs

ABMA Approved Training Programs

Medical Acupuncture for Physicians
Helms Medical Institute
2001 Addison Street, Suite 300
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 649-8488
Website: HMI Medical Institute
Course Directors: Mitchell Elkiss, DO, FAAMA and Ali Safayan, MD
President: Joseph Helms, MD, FAAMA


Acumed – Integrated Structural Acupuncture
University of New England, Osteopathic Medicine
Phone: (617) 329-9496
Website: Acumed – Integraded Structural Acupuncture
Director: Joseph F. Audette, MD
Course Admnistrator: Allison Bailey, MD


Academy of Pain Research
1790-26th Ave
San Francisco, CA 94122
Phone: (415) 731-1330
Website: Academy of Pain Research
Director: Tsun-Nin Lee, MD


Acupuncture of Canada
303-1246 Yonge St
Toronto, ON M4T 1W7
Phone: (416) 752-3988
Website: Acupuncture of Canada
Director: Ronda Kellington, CAE


Contemporary Medical Acupuncture for Health Professionals
McMaster University, Office of CME
1280 Main St West, Room #HSC-2U
Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1
Phone: (905) 521-2100 ext 75175
Website: Acupuncture Course
Director: Alejandro Elorriaga Claraco, MD
Coordinator: Valerie Cannon


Medical Acupuncture at Downstate
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
450 Clarson Ave, Box 1244
Brooklyn, NY 11203
Phone: (718) 270-2422
Website: SUNY Downstate program
Director: Tsai C. Chao, MD


Integrative course of Acupuncture to the Medical Practice
Via lena ALS Villia Fontana
Carolina, PR 00983
Phone: (787) 762-9424
Director: Luis Landestoy, MD


McMaster Medical Acupuncture Program: An Evidence Based Approach to TCM
Michael G. deGroote School of Medicine
1200 Main Street West, Room MDCL-3112
Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5
Phone: (905) 546-5500
Website: Medical Acupuncture Program
Director: Ken Trinh, MD
Program Administrator: Marsha Walker


UCLA East-West Integrative Medicine Fellowship Program
UCLA Center for East West Medicine
2336 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 301
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 998-9118
Website: UCLA East-West Integrative Medicine Fellowship Program
Director: Katie Hu, MD, ABOIM