FACULTY

Mary Bonnette, MSN, RN, PhD,graduated from the University of South Florida with a Masters degree in Mental Health Nursing in 1986, Following attainment of a Bachelor's degree in Nursing in 1982.  She has been a registered nurse in the state of Florida since 1979.  She is currently working toward a PhD in Health Services.  In 1986, she was the co-founder and program director of the Center for Pain Control and Rehabilitation, specializing in auricular therapy for smoking cessation.  Mary has been a Licensed Rehabilitation Provider in the state of Floria since 1987.  She is co-director of Auricular Therapy Center at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Florida.  Several thousand patients have now been successfully treated for their smoking addiction at this clinic.

David Carr, DDS, graduated from Baylor University of Dentistry in Dallas, Texas and is currently Director of the Central Texas TMJ Center.  He is immediate past chairman of the Texas Aerospace Commission, is a member of the American Dental Association and the American Academy of Head, Neck and Facial Pain, and is on the editorial board of the Electro Therapy Association.  He has a private dental practice with emphasis on crown and bridge reconstructive dentistry and treatment of craniomandibular disorders.  He uses auriculotherapy extensively for treatment of cervico-craniomandibular pain complexes.  He has conducted clinical research related to auriculotherapy applications to temporomandibular joint dysfunction, myofacial pain, occlusal dysfunctions, and headache complexes.



Tom Corbin, PhD,PA, is an Acupuncture Physician and past Assistant Director of Acupuncture Training at the University of Miami Medical School.  He is a Certified National Trainer for the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) and is a fellow of the American Institute of Stress. Presently, Dr. Corbin is dedicated to international acupuncture research.




Gary Ditson, DC, LAc, received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 1968 from Logan College of Chiropractic.  Dr. Ditson has over 33 years of experience as a health care provider, with 22 years of private practice in chiropractic and over 500 hours of acupuncture education.  He has served on the Post Graduate Faculty of the National University of Health Sciences and on the educational faculty and past Director of Admissions of Logan College of Chiropractic.  Dr. Ditson has served on the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners and has presented numerous lectures to the chiropractic profession and the general public.



Diane Iuliano, MAc, LAc, has been an academic instructor at the New England School of Acupuncture in Watertown, MA since 1993.  She offers courses in Auricular Acupuncture , Point Location, Japanese Acupuncture, and the Etiology and Pathology of Traditional Chinese Medicine.  Diane has practiced acupuncture in Massachusetts for over 20 years.  She received her Diplomate of Acupuncture from the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncture in 1992.  Since 1998, she has been the staff acupuncturist at the Mt. Auburn Hospital Pain Management Center in Cambridge, MA. and at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  She is on the Council to Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and is an Examiner and Consultant for the Medical Board of Acupuncture License.  She has also been certified by the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association.



Steve Meeker, LAc, DiplAc, FAAPM,  has been Board Certified in Acupuncture since 1988 and was subsequently Board Certified in Pain Management.  He is currently the Director of the Hollywood Clinic in Portland, Oregon, which specializes in auriculomedicine and is the internet home of www.eardoc.com.  He is Vice President of the Oregon Society of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.  In 1996, Steve received the Gold Cup Award from World Traditional Medicine in Beijing, China.  He is the author of Auricular Clinical Treatment Manual.



Faith Nelson, RN, CBT, PhD, Dr Nelson's has been cross-trained in all disciplines and areas of expertise in varied Intensive Care settings, including Premie Nursery, Cardiac Care, Surgical Intensive, ER, Neuro Intensive, Burn Unit, and Psychiatric Intensive.  During the 15 years in these specialty areas as a clinician and supervisor, she pursued her interests in the eclectic fields of Integrative Medicine.  Her practice was blended with in-patient care settings until 1998, when she pursued development of the Outpatient Integrative Services along with the development of the Fibromyalgia Program at St John's Regional Health Center.  Faith completed her PhD at Greenwich University in Integrative medicine and a PhD in Spiritual Healing/Energy Medicine through HOLOS University, with Dr. Norman Shealy as her mentor.  Her special Interests are in the field of biotherapeutics, electromedicine, and electro -acupuncture, with and eclectic background having a wide range of skills, trainings, and certifications in the fields of Biofeedback, Auriculotherapy, Licensed Massage Therapist, Clinical Essential Oils instructor, Reflexology/Acupressure, Touch for Health Level 4, PKP level 3, Reiki Master, Jin Shin, Jyutsu, and other energy work.



Richard Niemtzow, MD, PhD, MPH, received his Medical Degree from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montpellier, France and he completed a residency in radiation oncology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.  He obtained other advanced degrees at Pacific Western University (PhD) and the Medical College of Wisconsin (MPH).  Currently, Dr. Niemtzow serves as an active duty colonel in the United States Air Force Medical Corps and has numerous military command positions.  He is the first full time physician acupuncturist in the Armed Forces.  Editor-in-Chief of Medical Acupuncture and Senior Editor of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.  He represents the Department of Defense on the NIH CAM Advisory Council and is President of the Maryland Society of Medical Acupuncture.  Dr Niemtzow operates a full time acupuncture clinic at Andrews Air Force Base, Pentagon and consults at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the White House.  His acupuncture research projects include the following:  Battlefield Acupuncture, Age Related Macular Degenerative Disease, Acupuncture Clinical Outcomes, Xerophthalmia and Xerostomia.  He also has a private weekend acupuncture practice.



Terry Oleson, PhD, ACI President, received his doctorate in Psychobiology from the University of California at Irvine in 1973.  He later obtained a post-doctoral fellowship in Neuroscience at the UCLA Department of Psychology and the UCLA Brain Research Institute, specializing in research on stimulation produced analgesia.  He went on to conduct pioneering research on auricular diagnosis and auriculotherapy at the UCLA Pain Management Center in Los Angeles, where he also served  as the clinic biofeedback therapist.  Dr. Oleson is currently the Chair of the Department of Psychology and the Division of Behavioral Medicine at the California Graduate Institute in Los Angeles, California.  Dr Oleson also serves on the faculty of Emperor's College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the American University of Complementary Medicine.  He has written over 25 scientific articles and has published the well regarded textbook Auriculotherapy Manual:  Chinese and Western Approaches to Ear Acupuncture, Third Edition (2003) and the International Handbook of Ear Reflex Points (1995) and the wall chart entitled Ear Reflex Points (1994, 1998).  Dr Oleson presented his auricular nomenclature work at international meetings for the World Health Organization in Lyon, France in 1990, at the international congress for GLEM, held in Lyon, France in 1994 and 2000, and at the International Congress on Auricular Medicine, held in Beijing, China, in 1995.  In 1998, he received the Auricular Acupuncturist of the Year Award from the International Congress of Chinese Medicine.  Dr Oleson serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and serves on the board of Directors for the Society of Acupuncture Research.



Jim Shores, PhD, is the ACI Vice President and he has studied and worked with Auriculotherapy and related techniques for the past 37 years, and with other modalities and procedures for the past 43 years.  His Doctor of Philosophy in Auricular Medicine is from Ryodoraku Research Institute of North America.  Listed in Who's Who Executives and Professionals, he is recognized as one of the most qualified instructors of Auriculotherapy in the USA.  He presented Auriculotherapy at the first and second World Symposiums and forth World Congress in Acupuncture.  He has attended and/or sponsored in excess of 800 seminars/conferences with this science and other therapeutic technologies.  He organized an exchange program on Auricular Medicine for Moscow, Russia in 1992, and was a participant in a US-China Scientific Exchange program to China in 1982.  He was a guest of Erba Corporation of Germany and presented studies from the US at the FAB Medical Congress in Hanover, Germany in 1973.  Was a 5 star member of the Acupuncture Research Institute, he attended all annual meetings of American Academy of Acupuncture Medicine, American Academy of Medical Acupuncture, the American Academy of Pain Management, the World Congress of Chinese medicine and Pharmacy and many others.  He was the principle organizer of an International Consensus Conference on Acupuncture, Auriculotherapy and Auricular Medicine, ICCAAAM '99 in Las Vegas, which included 40 world renowned experts in the field of Auricular Medicine and Alternative Medicine and ended with a consensus panel assessment of controversies in the field of Auricular Acupuncture and Auricular Medicine.  Over 430 Health professionals were in attendance.  He presently conducts several seminars yearly, since 1973 and teaches a full week program each month on Auriculotherapy at the Pain Institute of Tulsa.



Beate Strittmatter, MD, Was born in 1956 and went to medical school in Frankfurt, Glasgow, and Homburg/Saarland.  She completed her degree in 1982.  This was followed by nine years of clinical specialization in orthopedics, with further training in body and ear acupuncture, neurall therapy, and manual medicine.  In 1990, she set herself up as a general practitioner with the additional specialization in naturopathic medicine and sports medicine.  Her main emphasis in the practice has been on pain therapy and acupuncture.  Since 1985, she has been a lecturer at the Academy for Acupuncture and Auriculomedicine in Munich, Germany, and at the Society for Therapeutic Local Anesthesia in Cologne, Germany.  For the last couple of years, she has been director of education at the Academy for Acupuncture and Auriculomedicine in Munich.  She serves as examiner and teacher in two German physicians chambers.  She has published widely and has been instrumental in developing the methods of focus diagnosis practiced today in the field of auriculotherapy.  She is the author of two standard textbooks in German and English and an interactive educational computer program.  Since 1989, she has been senior editor of the auriculomedical branch of the journal "Der Akupunkturarzt/Aurikulotherapeut", including four years as editor in chief of this specialist journal.  She is also a member of the board of the ACI (Auriculotherapy Certification Institute, Los Angeles).  She teaches at the University of Miami, Florida and and in Halifax, Canada.  She was invited guest speaker at the Arab Health 2006, Dubai, UEA and guest speaker and faculty member at the annual symposium of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture (AAMA) in Washington DC 2006.



Jon Sunderlage, DC, DiplAc, LAc, received his Doctorate of Chiropractic from Logan College of Chiropractic in 1968.  From 1969 to the present, he has accumulated over 4700 hours in acupuncture training in Canada, China, Europe, Tiawan (Formosa), Japan, Korea, and the United States.  He has served as postgraduate faculty member and Lead Acupuncture Instructor at the National University of Health Sciences, at Logan College of Chiropractic, St Louis, Missouri and at Parker College of Chiropractic, Dallas, TX.  He is currently a Board Member of the Illinois State Board of Acupuncture Examiners.  He received his Diplomate in Acupuncture from NCCAOM (National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental  Medicine).  Dr. Sunderlage is an Adjunct Faculty Member and Advisory Board Member: Midwest Center for the Study of Oriental Medicine, Chicago, Illinois and Racine, Wisconsin and is one of the founding officers or the American Chiropractic Association College of Chiropractic Acupuncture.