Medical Training

Jeffrey Dann, Ph.D., L.Ac.

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Boulder, CO 80305

Phone: 303-***-**** e-mail: abqk17@r.postjobfree.com

DOB: 09/29/1942

Sept 60 - June 64 BA. Dartmouth College

Sept. 64 - Mar 68 MA, Ph.C. University of Washington, Seattle

1969 1972 instructor, University of Hawaii at Hilo (UHHC), anthropology

Sept. 72 May 75 doctoral fieldwork, Japan

August 1978 Ph.D. University of Washington: Traditional body-mind training in

the martial way of kendo.

Jeffrey Dann has been an educator and community health practitioner for 40 years.

He is a faculty instructor for Japanese Acupuncture and Manual Medicine for the

following programs: 1. American Integrated Medicine College (AIMC), Berkeley,

continuing Education Certificate Program

2. Tri-State Acupuncture College, New York, doctoral

Japanese acupuncture program

3. Portland Oregon Japanese Acupuncture continuing

Education Certificate program.

2008 -2012 editor, North American Journal of Oriental Medicine (NAJOM), the only

bilingual journal covering all aspects of Japanese traditional medicine.

1969 - 1994 University of Hawaii at Hilo, anthropology instructor, adjunct

1970 Cross-cultural Training and Research Center, University of Hawaii, Peace Corps,

experiential anthropologist training for Pacific Rim countries.

1970 Hilo Natural Foods, founder and co-owner

1973- 1976 3 years doctoral study in Japan, University of Washington

1978 1994 Instructor and co-owner of the East West School of Physiology with

Dane Silva and the Hilo School of Massage with Rebecca Lux and Lisa Yee

1978 -1984 chief instructor Pahoa Kendo Kai dojo

1984 -1994 medical director, East West Clinic, Inc. Keaau. East Hawaii s first

integrated medicine wellness center, a regional alternative clinic and school with

community classes and lectures

1994 2009 director, Aloha Wellness Inc.Colorado- an Oriental Medical Arts Clinic.

1997 -2004 Medical Dance Team, Cleo Parker Robinson Repertory Theater, Denver

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2008 2012 Group co-ordinator Tokyo International In-Touch Acupuncture Seminars in

conjunction with the All Japan Meridian Therapy Association

A respected national and internationally known Acupuncture teacher, he has presented at

national bodywork and acupuncture conventions as has been teaching Japanese

Acupuncture to the Turkish Medical Acupuncture Association since 2002.

Besides professional teaching, Jeffrey has been a community teacher is youth and young

adult body-mind movement work for over 25 years. He was the dojo master of the Pahoa

Kendo Kai, the only non Japanese dojo master among the Hawaiian Japanese American

community.

In Boulder for the past 10 years he has been involved in the body-mind experiences of

dance, movement, and somatic psychology. He is a senior staff instructor, and dance

community doctor, in the intensive international young adult rites of passage work of

Melissa Michaels Surfing the Creative Foundation. (www.goldenbridge.org) He has

worked with men and young adults in exploring mind-body and emotion through dance

and movement. He is a Core Facilitator for the Boulder Contact Improv Labs.

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Training and Experience:

1972-75: Seitai shiatsu apprenticeship with Miyata Tomei, nanadan kyoshi Mito

Tobukan,Ibaraki Prefecture and electic shiatsu with Kamijo Hideyaki, Kyoto Tenrikyo

Church.

Kendo yondan, iaido nidan, naginata-do shodan

1978-1980: informal apprenticeships Seattle and Hawaii. Angela Longo Ph.D.

Sept Dec 1980 ; Acupuncture Foundation of Sri Lanka, Dehiwela General Hospital

Jan May 1981: International Physiotherapy and Acupuncture Institute, Dr. Gary Butt

June Aug 1981: Advanced International Acupuncture Training Course

at Beijing Municipal Hospital of TCM, Dr. Wang Ju-Yi

1982-1986 AmerAsian Institute of Chinese Medicine, Honolulu Hawaii. DOM

1984 1994 Shiatsu instructor Hilo School of Massage, Hilo, Hawaii

Jan June 1991 interned with Cao Guoliang of the Beijing National Academy,

Traumatology department at East-West Clinic in Keaau Hawaii

1987 2004 President of the Traditional Japanese acupuncture foundation

(Hawaii). With Dr. Chieko Maekawa to bring Japanese acupuncture masters to Hawaii

for advanced training. Including Sorimachi Taiichi, Shudo Denmei, Masakazu Ikeda,

Junji Mizutani, Miki Shima, and Kiiko Matsumoto.

1997 2012 AOBTA certified eclectic shiatsu instructor

1997 2000 clinical instructor: Colorado School of TCM, Denver, CO

2000-2007 adjunct faculty Southwest Acupuncture College, Boulder, CO

2002 -2006 shiatsu instructor, Healing Spirits School of Massage, Boulder, CO

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2008 2011 editor, NAJOM North American Journal of Oriental Medicine

2007 2011 group co-ordinator Tokyo In-Touch International Acupuncture Seminars

with Stephen Brown and the Meridian Therapy Association

Jeffrey is NCCAOM PDA Provider #716. He is approved to teach the following: Sotai

Movement Therapy, Integrated Japanese Manual Medicine Balancing the Koshi,

Sawada Style Moxibustion, Introduction to Meridian Therapy, SeiTai Shiatsu, Adjunct

systems of Japanese Acupuncture.

Past and Upcoming Presentations;

Istanbul Acupuncture Studies Center

April 29 May 2, 2011 Introduction to Japanese manual arts and Japanese

Meridian Therapy

April 21-22, 2012 Istanbul Turkey . Sei Tai Shiatsu

Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CSTCM) Denver:

Feb 2011 Manual Medicine in Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM)

Traditional Japanese Studies- Portland, Or.

March 2010 Introduction to Sotai Movement Therapy

March 2011 Advanced Sotai Therapy for the upper pole

Sept 2001- Co-presented with Shudo Denmei and Junji Mizutani for the 10th anniversary

of the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine, Seattle

2001 2011: instructor for the Medical Acupuncture Association of Istanbul, Turkey.

Annual lectures on introduction to Japanese acupuncture, Pediatric acupuncture, and

channel palpation.

May 2006, IASTAM (International Association for the Study of Asian Medicine),

University of Texas, co presenter on panel with Dan Bensky, Chip Chace, and Nigel

Dawes.

August 2006: weekend presentation for the Japanese Acupuncture Fellowship of Seattle,

hosted by Stephen Brown. Integrated treatment of the Koshi (lumbar-pelvic center) with

acupuncture and manual medicine.

May 2007 : Master lectures at Southwest college of Acupuncture, Boulder, CO.

Channel palpation, fascia, and superficial acupuncture stimulation.

September 28: presenter for the 25th anniversary of the Colorado Acupuncture

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Association, Denver. Channel palpation, fascial anatomy and superficial stimulation.

November 15-16, 2008: Lectures in treating the lumbo-sacral center at the Acupuncture

Integrated Medical College (AIMC) Berkeley, CA. Japanese certificate program.

June 1-2, 2009. Lectures. Tri-State Medical College, NYC.

Published articles in the North American Journal of Acupuncture, the California Journal

of Oriental Medicine, and the Pacific Symposium

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