Dr. Hirsh holds a doctorate in oriental medicine, and is a licensed and practicing acupuncturist and herbalist. He has practiced whole person medicine, and taught Tai Chi Chuan in Europe and Mexico for several years before returning to America in 1978. For the last twenty years he has worked to establish the specialization of regenerative health care within the conventional western medical model and to integrate diverse Eastern and Western medical traditions in this work. As an Honors graduate of the International College of Oriental Medicine (B.Ac.)(London, 1976), he received his Doctorate in Oriental Medicine (O.M.D.)(1984) with a specialty in Constitutional Medicine. After a 3,000 hour postgraduate internship he joined the Center for Orthomolecular Medicine in Palo Alto, California (1982) where he practiced acupuncture and herbal medicine for several years as a member of a six physician team that established leading protocols for holistic medicine. It was within this period of time that Dr. Hirsh served as an adjunct faculty member of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the California Acupuncture College and Emperor's College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and was one of the founders and secretary of the California Acupuncture Association.
After being involved with educating novice acupuncturists he became one of only three expert examiners for the California state medical licensing of acupuncturists. While working the acupuncture examinations there were many acupuncture techniques and herbal secrets shared from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and European traditions. During this twelve year period, Dr. Hirsh helped establish an evaluation by the California State Acupuncture Committee and the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncturists (NCCA) of nontraditional medical techniques. Concurrently, he was trained in ancient rejuvenative techniques such as medical Qigong and martial arts, as well as cosmetic acupuncture and herbal procedures involving facial rejuvenation and body sculpting. It was as early as 1974 when he was studying with the famous Russian physician, Dr. Mickael Santaro O.M.D. (China), that he realized how dramatically one could change a persons' body with herbs and acupuncture. Dr. Hirsh was co-translator, with Hui Shen, M.D., C.A., of Chinese Medical Treatment of Mental Disorders by Chang Jian-Hsu (unpublished manuscript). He is in private practice in Beverly Hills, California, specializing in work with people who have simple to complex health, rejuvenation, and reproductive concerns.
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