WHO WE ARE
Our Mission
The Neuroscience Acupuncture Conference is dedicated to the integration of the Chinese medicine with neuroscience in order to advance the profession and improve clinical outcomes.
Our goal is to bring the 21st-century medical sciences and their clinical applications to the acupuncture profession, raise the bar of scientific evidence-based acupuncture education as well as present groundbreaking neuroscience acupuncture scientific research.
It is our belief that this will assist in galvanizing acupuncture into the heart of mainstream medicine, where it belongs.
Great Speakers
Join the pioneers at the forefront of advancements in acupuncture and the neuroscience of acupuncture that is the future of our profession.
Online Workshops
Learn clinically reproducible TCM and neuroscience acupuncture protocols with patient-focused results.
Networking
Meet like-minded practitioners in the business of acupuncture who strive to take our profession to a new level of recognition and respect.
THE FUTURE OF ACUPUNCTURE
Our Vision
The Neuroscience Acupuncture Conference’s vision is to unite acupuncturists through the lens of neuroscience while integrating multiple medical disciplines and introducing top Western medical educators, researchers, and neuroscience practitioners to the acupuncture profession.
LEARN FROM THE BEST
Meet our 2022 Speakers
Dr. Helen Law
PhD, LAc
Helen K. Law was raised in a family of practitioners in traditional Chinese medicine in Hong Kong. She received her BA in applied physics and MS in aerospace engineering from the University of California at San Diego. After a successful career in aerospace research, she re-oriented her career interest to traditional Chinese medicine, and undertook studies at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. She was board certified in 2000, and received her PhD in Natural Health in 2010 and Doctor of Acupuncture in 2019.
Dr. Law has achieved community recognition for her excellence in service and dedication to her community. She was elected as the Best in Princeton since 2007 and was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2017. She was named a New Jersey Top Doc since 2010. She has also published a book, with Dr. Michael Corradino, on “Neuropuncture Case Studies and Clinical Applications, Volume 1” in 2020.
Dr. Law is the founder of Chinese Acupuncture Healthcare, and President and Director of the Princeton Integrative Health Center, where multiple practitioners provide service for acupuncture, nutritional, herbal and supplement, and functional wellness.
Brian Lau
AP, C.SMA
Dr. Brian Lau, AP, DOM, C. SMA, is the owner of Ideal Balance Center for Sports Medicine Acupuncture. Dr. Lau integrates a wide range of Eastern and Western medical principles together to achieve the greatest results for the patient. He specializes in treatment of musculoskeletal pain and injuries, but also treats a wide range of other illnesses, including digestive problems, neurological disease, chronic fatigue, among other diseases.
Dr. Lau has a master’s degree in Oriental Medicine from East West College of Natural Medicine, where he graduated summa cum laude. Dr. Lau holds advanced certification in both CORE™ Structural Integration and Sports Medicine Acupuncture®. In addition to directing Ideal Balance, Dr. Lau teaches nationally with the Sports Medicine Acupuncture® Certification Program, based in San Diego, CA, Manhattan, NYC and Chicago, IL. Dr. Lau is also a longtime practitioner and instructor of taiji (tai chi) and qigong with over two decades of experience. He teaches regular classes locally and online, and has taught seminars throughout the Southeastern United States.
Dr. Lau has collectively over 15 years of study in manual therapies, movement therapies and acupuncture, and has studied extensively with top educators in a broad range of modalities.
Dr. Patrick Conte
MD, PhD
Patrick J Conte, MD, PhD is a licensed medical doctor and is board certified in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. He is also the former Chief of Nuclear Medicine at St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ. He was the Chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at St. Michael Medical Center in Newark, NJ and is the Chief of Nuclear Medicine Section of Radiology at St. Joseph University Medical Center in Paterson, NJ. Dr. Conte has written many medical research papers and made presentations and exhibits at various medical and radiological societies. He has also published many articles and scientific papers in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine journals.
Following graduation from high school, he attended the American Academy of Mortuary Science at the behest of his father who was a licensed mortician and owner of the Patrick J Conte Funeral Home. His father commented that he would always have the business to fall back on as a contingency plan, especially if things went awry in pursuing a medical career. Since his Dad was paying for his education, he reluctantly acquiesced. Dr. Conte was bestowed the Dean’s award upon graduation.
The next school year he entered Seton Hall University pre-medical program. But his fourth year of pre-med was interrupted by military service and he never completed the academic year. Fortunately, following the one year of active military service, he was accepted into medical school without completion of a fourth year of pre-med or obtaining a baccalaureate degree.
Peter Larking
BScH, MNZRA
Peter has studied and practiced Chinese medicine for 25 years. In that time, he has achieved a Bachelor of Health Sciences specializing in acupuncture, Diplomas in Tuina, Qigong, Taijiquan and has recently completed cadaver research at the MARC Institute, Miami, achieving the upper torso, head, face, brain and spine dissection module.
He is a former teacher and faculty member at the New Zealand School of Acupuncture lecturing in Bio medical sciences, Neurological anatomy, Chinese Medical theory, Acupuncture, Tuina, Qi gong, Taijiquan.
Peter is a specialist and teacher in electro-acupuncture modalities and is a certified Neuropuncture practitioner and instructor. Peter currently works as the medical director of Neuromedtec in New Zealand and represents Neuropuncture Inc as an instructor.
From his 15+ years of teaching he imparts his extensive knowledge in a digestible way, bridging the gap between the traditional Chinese medical model with the 21st century neurosciences.
To learn more about Peter, please visit neuromedtec.com.
Dr. Poney Chiang
PhD, LAc
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 Pacific College of Health & Science New York. He is an adjunct professor and founder of the Integrative Acupuncture Certificate Program for the Faculty of Health at York University (Toronto). Poney is also a professor at the American Neuro-Acupuncture Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
He is a leading expert in peripheral neuro-anatomy of acupoints and their associated neuro-modulation needle techniques. Poney has been invited to lecture and conduct workshops at numerous TCM and biomedical acupuncture symposiums around the world. His current research interest involves an MRI-based study of the neuro-anatomy of acupoints on the scalp and their relationships to cortical functional regions. Poney is the primary author revising Fundamentals of Chinese Acupuncture, (Ellis & Wiseman, Paradigm Publication) which is to feature original dissection and illustrations for more than 400 distinct acupoints.