Yongping Jiang is a licensed acupuncturist inMinnesota and professor at NWHSU. He has been engaged TCM study and practicefor more than 40 years, and has successively obtained bachelor's, Master's anddoctor's degrees of TCM. Also, he has been engaged in hospital clinical workfor many years in China. Since 1996, he came to United States and has beenengaged in TCM teaching and practice since then. He strongly believes that thecombination of TCM classical studies with clinical practice is essential to becominga good practitioner or a good teacher. He also believes that when treatingpatients, one's clinical skills must be complemented with a warm heart.Furthermore, he thinks that disease prevention and health preservation are justas important as treating disease itself.