Chinese Calendar: "Year of the Rat"

Calligraphy samples from
"Traditional Chinese Medical Painting and Calligraphy" and "Traditional Chinese Medical Qi Gong Calligraphy" Books by Dr. Steven KH Aung

Professional Profile

Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Extension and Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta Clinical Associate Professor, New York University College of Dentistry

President, Canadian Medical Acupuncture Society
President, World Natural Medicine Foundation
President, International Buddhist Friends Association

DR STEVEN KH AUNG is a geriatric and family physician and a traditional Chinese medical (TCM) practitioner and teacher. He seeks to blend Eastern, Western and natural medicine in his medical clinic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. At the University of Alberta, Dr Aung is an associate clinical professor in the Departments of Medicine and Family Medicine and adjunct professor in the Faculty of Extension and the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr Aung founded the Certificate Program in Medical Acupuncture at the University of Alberta in 1991, and he is the program’s chief instructor, examiner and curriculum consultant. He is also a medical acupuncture consultant for the University of Alberta Hospitals, the Cross Cancer Institute and the Caritas Health Group (Edmonton General Site, Misericordia Community Health Centre, Grey Nuns Community Health Centre) as well as the Glen Sather University of Alberta Sports Medicine Centre and the Edmonton Oilers Hockey Team. He is an active member of the Acupuncture Committee, Province of Alberta.

Dr Aung is a founding member and current president of the World Natural Medicine Foundation, the Canadian Medical Acupuncture Society and the International Buddhist Friends Association. He is an associate clinical professor, Division of Surgical Sciences (Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery), New York University College of Dentistry, David B Kriser Dental Center—and he holds visiting professor appointments at the Beijing University of TCM and Research Institute, Capital University of Medical Sciences (Beijing), Heilongjiang University of TCM (Harbin, China), Showa University School of Medicine (Tokyo), California Institute for Human Science (Encinitas, California) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is also a vice-president and standing council member of the World Academic Society of Medical Qi Gong, Beijing, and Vice-Chair representing North America for the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, Beijing.

In 2005 he was inducted into the Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosicrucian International Humanitarian Award as well as recipient of a Physician of the Century Award, and he is also a recipient of the Order of Canada 2006.

Dr Aung has been a World Health Organization advisor on acupuncture nomenclature and cancer pain control, and he currently serves as a WHO advisor in the standardization of acupuncture (indications, training and safety). Dr Aung, who is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Acupuncture the Australian Medical Acupuncture College and the International College of Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics, was awarded a Professional Excellency from the Academie Diplomatique de la Paix in 1986. He was awarded the Alberta Order of Excellence (Office of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Alberta) in 2002 and the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003. Dr Aung is the founder and president of the World Congresses of Medical Acupuncture and Natural Medicine (Beijing 1987, Beijing, 1991, Edmonton 1995 and Edmonton 2000). In 2005 he was inducted into the Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosicrucian International Humanitarian Award as well as Physician of the Century Award, and is currently nominated for the Order of Canada. He is the author of several articles and books on various aspects of TCM as well as Chinese calligraphy and painting. His primary interest is the integration of TCM and Western biomedicine within the context of a more natural and compassionate approach to primary health care for all.

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