Our teachers
Learn from leading experts in Chinese medicine
Our teachers are experienced practitioners, lecturers and authors from the UK and China. Many trained at China’s leading universities of Chinese medicine and have taught at universities across the UK. As a student, you learn directly from them, live online and in clinic.
Course leaders
Leading the Diploma
Course Leader & Lecturer
Professor Fan Yi Meng
Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for the BSc (Hons) Acupuncture at Lincoln College.
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Professor Meng earned his Medical Bachelor’s degree (1978–1983) and Medical Master’s in Chinese Diagnostics (1986–1990) at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical IT at Hubei University of Chinese Medicine.
He also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Post-Compulsory Education from the University of Lincoln and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Educational Theory from BUCM.
Course Leader & Lecturer
Professor Zan Yu Chen
Former lecturer in Chinese herbal medicine at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, practising in the UK since 2000.
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Professor Chen studied at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (BUCM), completing a six-year medical degree (1986–1992) and a Master’s in Chinese Herbal Medicine (1998–2000).
From 1992 to 2000 he lectured in the Chinese Herbal Medicine Department at BUCM. In 2000 he moved to the UK, where he practises as a Chinese medicine practitioner in Kent.
Course Leader & Lecturer
Professor Kai Cun Zhao
Specialist in Chinese medicine and clinical pharmacology, with a PhD from Imperial College London.
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Professor Zhao graduated in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Beijing in 1982, earned a Master’s in Clinical Pharmacology from Peking Union Medical College, held a Royal Fellowship at King’s College London, and completed his PhD at Imperial College in 1994.
From 2003 to 2018 he led the MSc/PGDip Professional Practice in Chinese Herbal Medicine and the BSc (Hons) Traditional Chinese Medicine at Middlesex University.
Lecturers & tutors
Expertise across Chinese medicine
Supporting Tutor
Dr You Jun Wang
Senior consultant of Chinese medicine, dedicated to restoring classical theory and traditional formulas.
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Dr Wang graduated from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in 1992 and spent 14 years in clinical and teaching roles at the Teaching Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, before moving to the UK in 2006.
He was executive vice-president of the FTCMP (UK) and chief editor of the Journal of Chinese Medicine in UK from 2013 to 2015. He now chairs the FTCMP Academic Board, is English editor of the journal, and lectures at Chinese medicine schools across Europe.
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Dr Ming Zhao Cheng
Over 40 years in acupuncture and Chinese medicine, and a Fellow of the British Acupuncture Council.
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Dr Cheng served on the Governing Board of the British Acupuncture Council, which awarded him a fellowship in 2017. He is a senior advisor and fellow of the ATCM and a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Trained as a medical doctor in both Chinese and Western medicine in Guangzhou, he was an Associate Professor in London and an expert representative on the Department of Health working group on statutory regulation. He practises in Edgware and Kensington.
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Mr Da Peng Zhang
Over twenty years in practice, teaching and writing, with clinics in Marylebone and Harley Street.
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Mr Zhang studied Traditional Chinese Medicine in Tianjin, worked as a hospital doctor there and at a teaching hospital in Chicago, then built a practice in Manchester, where he wrote a TCM column for the Manchester Evening News.
He founded the Dapeng Clinic in London in 2009 and is known for his work in fertility, pain management and post-cancer care.
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Professor Ye Zhang
Over 35 years’ experience, and a former professor at Shanghai University of TCM.
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Professor Zhang holds a medical master’s degree from Shanghai University of TCM, where she worked as a professor and doctor in both Chinese and Western medicine. She has published four books and over ten articles.
Practising in the UK since 1997, she has lectured at the University of Westminster, Middlesex University and the University of East London, and specialises in gynaecology, emotional disorders, skin conditions and pain.
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Dr Dan Jiang
Visiting professor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Fellow of the British Acupuncture Council.
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Honoured by the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, Dr Jiang is a Fellow and Mentor of the ATCM. She graduated from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in 1978, with master’s degrees in 1982 and 1987.
Practising in Sheffield and Harley Street since 1991, she is editor-in-chief of Principle & Practice of TCM in the West and has written over 50 professional papers.
Supporting Tutor
Dr Michael Chung
Doctorate in Chinese Medicine from Tianjin, and a specialist in Tung’s acupuncture.
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A pupil of Dr Young for over 25 years, Dr Chung has spent decades studying and researching Tung’s acupuncture, touring Asia, Europe and Canada to translate and assist Dr Young’s teaching.
He lives and works in Canada, teaching the Tung needling technique.
Supporting Tutor
Professor Huang Huang
One of China’s foremost Jing Fang experts, at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine.
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Professor Huang is renowned for using formulas from the Shang Han Lun and Jin Gui Yao Lue to treat difficult diseases. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine and was awarded his PhD in 2001.
His book, Zhong Jing’s Fifty Herbal Patterns, brings together his research on formula patterns.
Learn with our teachers
Our three-year hybrid Diploma in Chinese Herbal Medicine is taught by this team.