About Bi Tao Lian
Bi Tao Lian was born in 1962 in Zijin County, Guangdong Province, China. She was admitted to Guangzhou Medical University in 1978, where she recieved training for five years. She graduated in August 1983, and then she was assigned by the government to Shenzhen City Central hospital in Guangdong Province, as an obstetrician and gynecologist.
In 1986 she was assigned to the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhongsan Medical University for a year of obstetrics and gynecology. In 1990, she moved to Sydney, Australia, to study at the College of Natural Therapeutics. She also worked as a Chinese medicine practitioner at Sydney's Chinese Herbs Medical Center. 1992, she emigrated to Florida, in the United States, where, during the following year, she obtained an American Acupuncture Practitioner's license and subsequently opened her clinic, the Oriental Healing Center. In 2000, Dr. Lian was invited by Kevin B. Kern, M.D., and James T. Menges, M.D., to the Pain Clinic at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida. This clinic was conducted with Chinese medicine practitioners in Western medicine and demonstrated the remarkable pain-relief effect possible with acupuncture. Previously, in 1997, former First Lady Nancy Reagan helped organice a detoxification program using nontraditional treatment, including acupuncture, and fully acknowledged the efficacy of traditional Chinese Medicine. |