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Dr. Adam Chen has been practicing TCM for over forty years. He conducts clinical research on acupuncture and diseases including insomnia, headache and women’s health issues. His collaborators include medical doctors and scientists from Toronto Western General Hospital, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Mount Sinai Hospital, Women’s College Hospital and Sunnybrook Hospital. The federal government has called upon him to consult on issues regarding alternative medicine.
He is the founder and head of the acupuncture clinic at the Mount Sinai Hospital. He is also the president of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Physician Association of Canada. He has been often featured, both nationally and locally, on television and radio stations, magazines, and newspapers. Some of these appearances can be found in the Media section.
Dr. Chen is a graduate from Heilongjiang TCM University in China. After coming to Canada in 1983, he earned M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (in Genetics) from the University of Alberta. He has spoken at national and international professional conferences, as well as publishing numerous research papers in various peer reviewed journals.
Timeline of accomplishments
| 1969 - 1970 | Dr. Chen was selected for training as a battlefield rescue patrol at a local hospital. He learned basic nursing, medical treatment and first-aid, which started his journey as a professional doctor. |
| 1971 - 1975 | Studied and practiced with fellow doctors at the local hospital. |
| 1975 - 1980 | Was recommended for the Heilongjiang Chinese Medical University; after graduation he continued to study Chinese medicine in more advanced classes. |
| 1980 - 1981 | Entered the Harbin Medical College for medical genetics with first honors from the previous university. |
| 1981 - 1983 | Was hired as professor at Heilongjiang Chinese Medicine University. |
| 1982 - 1983 | Achieved first place in provincial examinations and entered Heilongjiang University for further education in English. |
| 1983 | Obtained the Canadian Scholarship to enter the University of Alberta. |
| 1983-1990 | Received a Master's degree and Doctorate in molecular biology and genetics at the University of Alberta. |
| 1990 - 1993 | Post-doctoral studies at the Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. |
| 1994 - 1997 | Researcher at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. |
| 1995 - 2008 | Started an independent Chinese medical clinic in Markham. |
| 1997 - 2002 | At The Michener Institute, Dr.Chen established a Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Department. As the head of the department he also established an acupuncture therapy clinic in school, which gave Canada its first major in Chinese medicine. |
| 2000 - 2002 | Dr. Chen founded an acupuncture research dispensary at the Mount Sinai Hospital. This created an enormous stir at the time; the inclusion of Chinese medicine in a hospital brought acupuncture into the Canadian mainstream. |
| 2002 - Present | Dr. Chen founded a clinic at St. John’s Hospital, providing out-patience services. He currently serves as director of the clinic. |
| 2008 - Present | Dr. Chen was invited to be the Director of Acupuncture at the Mount Sinai Hospital. |
| 2008 - Present | Dr. Chen was invited to be the Director of the AC99 Health Centres. |
Partial list of Invited public apparence
1. Alternative medicine and cancer. Panel speaker, CBC Benmergi Show, November 28, 1997
2. New developments in Acupuncture and patient care. Inner City Round Seminar series, St. Michael Hospital, Feb. 12, 1997
3. Acupuncturist as a Chosen Career. Address to Undergraduate Students, McMaster University Career Planning and Employment Centre, February 2, 1999
4. Traditional Chinese Medicine and Health, Address to Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council members, June 2, 1999
5. Acupuncture and Your Health, Congress 99, Cadadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science, Toronto, June 15, 1999
6. TCM, a Healthy Way of Living, Address to The Ontario Hospital Nurse Association members, Toronto, January 24, 2000
7. Acupuncture and Migraine, Panel speaker, Facial Pain and migraine Conference, Healthy Living Lecture Series, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, February 22, 2000
8. Opening of Acupuncture Clinic at Wassar Pain management Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Featured on CBC, City TV, CTV, Global TV, OTV, FairChild TV, etc. June 12, 2000
9. Toronto Centre for Acupuncture and acupuncture program at The Michener Institute, Beakfest television, City TV, November 27, 2000
10. Chinese Medicine for Depression, Healthy Living Lecture Series, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, November 14, 2001
11. Acupuncture and Depression, Integreted Approaches to Mental Illness, Public Lecture Series, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, November 24, 2001
12. Joint acupuncture clinic at st. John’s Rehab Hospital, Breakfest television, City TV, January 29, 2002
13. Opening of the joint acupuncture clinic at St. John’s Rehab Hospital, CTV, CFMT TV, Febuary 08, 2002
14. Chinese herbal medicine and H1N1, CTV, OMNI, Fairchild TV, October, 2009
15. Acupuncture for paralysis, OMNI, Fairchild, May, 2010
16. Acupuncture and pain management – a new research finding, Global TV, May 2010
Publications in Acupuncture research
1. Leonid Kayumov, Warren Spence, Adam Chen, Alan Lowe and Colin M. Shapiro. Acupuncture Ameliorates Symptoms of Insomnia and Anxiety. 15th European Congress of Sleep Research Society. Istanbul, 2000
2. Acupuncture treatment for anxiety and insomnia. A Chen et al. Journal of Sleep Research. Vol 11, Supplement 1, June 2002
3. Acupuncture increases nocturnal melatonin secretion and reduces insomnia and anxiety: a preliminary report. D. Spencer et al. Journal of Neuropsychiatry Clinic Neuroscience. Vol 16:1, 2004
Publications in Genetics research
1. Chen, Z.-Q. and R.B. Hodgetts, (1987) Functional analysis of a naturally occurring variant dopa decarboxylase gene in Drosophila melanogaster using P element mediated germ line transformation. Mol. Gen. Genet. 207: 441-445.
2. Sasi R, W. Etches, J.D. Thacker, Z.-Q. Chen, S. Shiferaw and C.C. Lin, (1989) The use of a bcr probe for routine study of chronic myelogenous leukemia. Karyogram 15:54-59.
3. Chen, Z.-Q., C.C. Lin and R.B. Hodgetts, (1989) Cloning and characterization of a tandemly repeated DNA sequence in the crane family (Gruidae). Genome 32:646-654.
4. Lin, C.C., R. Sasi, Y-S. Fan and Z.-Q. Chen, (1991) New evidence for chromosome tandem fusions in the karyotypic evolution of asian muntjacs. Chromosoma 101:19-24.
5. Chen, Z.-Q., R.G. Ritzel, C.C. Lin and R.B. Hodgetts, (1991) Sequence conservation in avian CR1: an interspersed repetitive DNA family evolving under functional constraints. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88:5814-5818.
6. Chen, Z.-Q., M.H. Hofker and D.W. Cox, (1995) Defining the breakpoint of a multigene deletion in the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene cluster. Immunogenetics 41:69-73.
7. Chen, Z.-Q., D.L. Lefebvre, X.H. Bai, Reaume, J. Rossant and S.J.Lye, (1995) Identification of two regulatory elements within the promoter region of the mouse connexin43 gene. J. Biol. Chem. 270:3863-3868.
8. Lefebvre, D.L., M. Piersanti, X.H. Bai, Z.-Q. Chen and S.J. Lye, (1995) Myometrial transcriptional regulation of the gap junction gene, connexin-43. Reprod. Fertil. Dev. 7:603-611.
9. Shi, Y.F., M. Hill, A. Novak, Z.-Q. Chen, R.X. Wang, C.C. Liew and G.B. Mills, (1997) Human hematopoietic cells express two formes of the cytokine receptor common y-chain (yc). Cell Res. 7:195-205.
10. Ou R., Z.-Q. Chen, S. Qi and S.J. Lye, (1998) Increased Expression of the Rat Myometrial Oxytocin Receptor Messenger Ribonucleic Acid during Labour Requires Both Mechanical and Hormonal Signals. Biol. Reprod. 59:1055-1061.
11. Ou CW., Z.-Q. Chen, S. Qi and S.J. Lye, (2000) Expression and regulation of the messenger ribonucleic acid encoding the Prostaglandin F(2alpha) receptor in the rat myometrium during pregnancy and labour. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 182(4):919-25.
12. Mitchell JA, Ou C, Chen Z, Nishimura T, Lye SJ. (2001) Parathyroid hormone-induced up-regulation of connexin-43 messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is mediated by sequences within both the promoter and the 3'untranslated region of the mRNA. 142(2):907-15.