About David

My goal is to restore your body's ability to regulate and maintain itself so that medical intervention (including acupuncture) is either no longer necessary, or necessary in reduced amounts with less invasive qualities.

David is a certified acupuncturist and herbalist, carrying a License of Acupuncture (L.Ac.) with Washington State, and a Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (DOM) with the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). He has a BA from Antioch University.

David received his medical training at the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine, the top school in the country, renowned for its apprenticeship style education. His graduating class consisted of only six other students, and he worked side by side with some of Seattle's and China's most outstanding practitioners. He is further continuing to educate himself by taking part in the Oncology teaching clinic at Kang Wen on Capitol Hill.

David is also proficient in Chinese medical language, and regularly accesses Chinese texts and journals for research.

Originally from New Jersey, I have called South Seattle home for nearly ten years. As a teenager I was drawn to medicine, and was most interested in becoming a surgeon. People often ask how I found East Asian Medicine, but the truth is that it found me in the form of an opportunity to observe an acupuncturist in practice. I began as a skeptic, but quickly changed my mind, as I could not deny acupuncture's effectiveness. I have now fallen in love with this medicine, and I plan to continue training and clinical practice for the duration of my life.

Health and disease are part of the same continuum. There is no definite point in time at which a disease begins or ends. The processes that give birth to any condition begin long before the diagnosis and no one can say just exactly when a disease begins and health ends. Thus health may be referred to as a balance between those forces that promote life and vigor, and those that take life and vigor away. Medicine is a lifestyle that you take home with you, and live out in daily life. Health is power, freedom and happiness for individuals and their communities.

I see my role as facilitating the innate healing potential that exists within each person. As well, I see my role within the context of a larger community and recognize that by improving the health and vitality of those who choose my care, their families and communities will also benefit. To use the words of one of my teachers, "We are healing the world, but one person at a time".

Thank you for visiting this site. I look forward to sharing what I know in order to help you, and learning from you as well to better help all who choose my care.

Thank You and be well!