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Congratulations to Dr Lin SHIN's appointment by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services to the National Advisory Council on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He hopes to strongly advocate solid scientific research and promote Traditional Chinese Medicine in this area of medicine in the US in the next 4 years.

I'm sending you a link to the following NIH news release, NCCAM's Advisory Council Welcomes Six New Members, February 1, 2008 News Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH): http://www.nih.gov/news/health/feb2008/nccam-01.htm

Hanson Lau (61)

Shin Lin, Ph.D., holds professorships in developmental and cell biology, physiology and biophysics, and biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine, CA, (UCI). He also serves on the advisory board and faculty of UCI's Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Lin received his doctorate in biological chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is a long-time practitioner of qi gong, tai chi, and Chinese martial arts.

He is the founder of the International Alliance for Mind-Body Signaling and Energy Research, which focuses on using high-tech approaches to measuring physiological and bioenergetic changes associated with mind-body practices and therapies. He also studies mechanisms of action for natural products that affect the cytoskeleton and cellular movements.

Dr. Lin, a member of many professional organizations, is co-chair of the World Congress on Qi Gong. He has over 200 publications and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Chinese Medicine.