the 8th annual Dutch Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress
2025
Dutch
TCM
Congress
"Building Bridges"
The Path to Integrative Medicine
November 1st & November 2nd 2025
Dr. Poney Chiang PhD
Canada
Poney Chiang received a PhD in biomedical research from the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, followed by a Master’s degree in traditional Oriental medicine from the Pacific College of Health & Science in New York. He is a fellow at the Dahdeleh Institute of Global Health at York University (Toronto). Poney is also a professor at the American Neuro-Acupuncture Institute in Santa Fe (USA).
He is a leading expert in peripheral neuro-anatomy of acupoints and their associated neuro-modulation needle techniques. Since 2013, Poney has been invited to lecture and conduct workshops at numerous TCM and biomedical acupuncture symposiums around the world. His latest research interest involves an MRI-based study of the neuro-anatomy of acupoints on the scalp and their relationships to cortical functional regions. In 2024, he was the keynote speaker for the Australasian Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Annual Conference.
He has been recognised with an award for excellence in research, teaching and contributing to advancing the TCM profession by the dean of the Ontario College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Canada).
Dr. Hiske van Ravesteijn MD PhD
The Netherlands
Hiske van Ravesteijn trained as a medical doctor at the Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and began her training as a psychiatrist at the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen in 2007. In 2014 she defended her PhD in the field of Primary Care and Psychiatry in the theme of mindfulness training for patients with medically unexplained symptoms. In the same year she completed her postdoctoral training at the Radboudumc Center for Mindfulness as a mindfulness trainer.
The following year she became a psychiatrist, and worked both in hospitals and in primary care as a consulting psychiatrist. For the past eight years she has also worked as a teacher at the Radboudumc Center for Mindfulness, teaching professionals to become mindfulness trainers. In 2018 she began working in psycho-oncology at the Helen Dowling Institute in Arnhem.
This is where she began using specific meditation practices aimed at cultivating kindness, joy, compassion and equanimity.
Dr. Beverley de Valois PhD
United Kingdom
Beverley de Valois PhD LicAc FBAcC MBLS is a practising acupuncturist in the UK and a distinguished researcher of acupuncture for the supportive care of people living with and beyond cancer. For the past 25 years she has been a researcher in integrative medicine in the Supportive Oncology Research Team (SORT) in the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, which incorporates the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre. She has conducted several pioneering studies into the use of acupuncture in the management of the consequences of cancer treatments.
Beverley is an honorary research fellow in the school of social and community medicine, University of Bristol; a fellow of the British Acupuncture Council; a council member of the British Society for Integrative Oncology (BSIO) and past chair of the British Lymphology Society (BLS) scientific committee.
She has published extensively in scientific journals, is the lead author in “Acupuncture in Cancer Care: Recommendations for Safe Practice (peer-reviewed expert opinion)”, as well as the author of “Acupuncture and Cancer Survivorship: Recovery, Renewal and Transformation”, published by Singing Dragon. Beverley lectures internationally and is the founder of the first UK clinics to ever focus on helping people recover after cancer treatments.
Mieke Vlamynck
Belgium
Mieke Vlamynck (Bruges, 1971) graduated as a physical therapist in 1993. She made her first steps in the world of medical acupuncture during a two year course about myofascial pain and dysfunction. Driven by the need for a more holistic approach in her work, she further acquired a degree in osteopathy and traditional Chinese medicine.
For many years now Mieke has been teaching dry needling and kinesiology to acupuncture and sports therapy students in Belgium, Paris and London. Presently, she teaches acupuncture in psychosomatic disorders at OTCG in Antwerp. She has a great interest in scientific research, and in 2021 was commissioned by the Belgian government to write an evidence based acupuncture paper. She is president of EUFOM, one of the Belgian acupuncture federations and runs her own private clinic in Bruges.
Prof. Dr. Mei Wang
The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Mei Wang is the founder and Director of SU BioMedicine BV and a senior researcher in traditional medicine at the Naturalist Biodiversity Center in Leiden, The Netherlands and professor at Zhejiang TCM University (China). She represents the Netherlands in the European Pharmacopoeia and serves as an expert at the EDQM’s working party on Chinese herbal medicine.
Prof. Dr. Wang and her team contributed to the successful registration of Diao Xin Xue Kang capsules (RVG 102142, 2012) and Xiao Yao tablets (RVG 126209, 2021) as traditional herbal medicinal products in The Netherlands under Directive 2004/24/EC. She has published over 170 papers in peer-reviewed journals, reviews manuscripts for more than 15 international journals, and serves on the editorial board of three of those. She has served as co-promoter of 16 PhD students at Leiden University (1994–2024).
Her research focuses on providing scientific evidence for Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine using systems biology, quality control and EU regulatory aspects. She has served on the board of the NVF (until 2024), is president of the GP-TCM Research Association, and chairs the Dutch NEN-ISO TC249 commission on TCM standards.
United Kingdom
Professor Tianjun Wang is the President and Founder of the Academy of Scalp Acupuncture UK (ASA). He graduated from Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine (NUCM) in 1989, where he also completed his PhD. In 2007, he moved to the UK and served as a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Acupuncture Clinic at the University of East London until 2014. He currently holds the position of Guest Professor at NUCM and supervises both Master's and PhD students at its UK Centre.
Professor Wang is also the Principal of the London Academy of Chinese Acupuncture (LACA), Vice President of the Scalp Acupuncture Committee under the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS), and President of the Institute of Scalp Acupuncture UK. He runs the TJAcupuncture Clinic and the Brain Care Centre in London.
An accomplished academic, he has authored and co-authored over 50 scholarly papers and serves as a peer reviewer for several international journals. His book Acupuncture for Brain: Treatment for Neurological and Psychologic Disorderswas published by Springer in 2020.
He has delivered numerous CPD trainings and scalp acupuncture courses across the UK and internationally, including in the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Greece, Germany, Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Since 2008, he has also been a regular speaker at international acupuncture conferences, sharing his expertise in scalp acupuncture with a global audience.