Yair Maimon,PhD, OMD, Ac
Dr. Yair Maimon is an internationally renowned figure in the field of Integrative and Chinese Medicine with over 25 years of clinical, academic, and research experience in the United States, Europe, and Israel.
Dr. Maimon integrates complementary and western medicine in his own unique way. He formally headed the complementary medical unite at the Tel Aviv Medical Center for over 15 years.
Current
· Head of the Israeli Center for Research in Complementary
Medicine (NPO).
· Chairman of the International Congress of Chinese Medicine in Israel (ICCM).
· Head of Refuot integrative Medical Center.
· Head of the herbal-cancer research project in Bar-Ilan University’s Cancer Research
laboratories; focusing on leading integrative-oncology research
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Academic background
· Ample and unique academic background. Graduate of colleges and universities in
England, Holland, United States, and China.
· Expert in different approaches of Chinese medicine: “5 Elements”, TCM (Traditional
Chinese Medicine), Stems and Branches, Japanese Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal
Medicine, and studies of ancient medical texts.
Postgraduate specialization in integrative medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, and oncology
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Academic lecturing and Teaching
Former dean and co-founder of Medi-Cin College of Complementary Medicine.
Lecturer in Medical Psychology at Tel Aviv University.
Head of Continuing Education–Complementary Medicine Studies for medical doctors in affiliation with Bar Ilan University
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Past Clinical experience including work in hospitals and clinics
Lemuel Shattuck Hospital – Pain and Stress Relief Clinic (Boston, MA)
TCM Clinic in the Neurology Department at Hillel Yafe Hospital (Hedera, Israel)
Head of the Chinese Medicine Unit at Shiram-Asaf Harofe Hospital
Head of the Complementary Medicine Unit for over 15 years and head of the integrative oncology research center at Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center–Hospital (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Oncology Department in Guangan Men’s Hospital (Beijing, China)
Over the last 5 years consecutively included in the yearly “The Best” magazine issued by leading newspaper – Ma’ariv – as one of the of the best complementary medicine practitioners in Israel.
Membership
· National Certification Commission for acupuncture and oriental medicine
· Society of integrative Oncology
· Israel Association of Chinese Medicine
· Israel Medical Association in the Complementary Medical Society
· Member of the NMC National Mirror Committee ISO TC 249 – on Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Publications
Research papers and articles on the effect of Chinese Medicine in peer-reviewed journals. List of articles available on request.
Chapter in a book on the physiology-pathology of stress published by Elsevier publication
Keynote lecturer and teaching postgaduate training seminars in many international conferences on Integrative and Chinese Medicine.
Above all devoted to healing and treating patients.
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