On December 15, 2010 the Scholarship Committee of the YSU Doctoral Program awarded four of our doctoral students Alliance of Health Care Professionals Scholarships.
This scholarship was funded by a $5000 gift by “Professional Insurance Services” through Dessa Schroeder and Howard Wong. “Cal Pro” as the company is known, is a provider of malpractice insurance for health care professionals. The scholarship’s goal is to support the efforts of doctoral level students who have made a special commitment to engage advanced studies that will bring them to the highest level of the profession.
The following four students of the DAOM program in Reproductive Medicine earned the competitive award:
• Paula Kunkel, L.Ac., FABORM, MT(ASCP). Paula received her Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine degree in June of 2000. She maintains a full time acupuncture/herbal practice, Tree of Life Oriental Medicine, Inc., in Fairbanks, Alaska, and is currently an instructor at the Oriental Healing Arts Center in Anchorage, Alaska.
• Cynthia Splies (Cindy), L.Ac. is a California licensed acupuncturist, a Registered Professional Herbalist and a diplomat of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine (NCCAOM). A native California, Cindy specializes in treating fertility patients and lives in Ventura with her husband and 4 children.
• Janice Chen, L.Ac. an MIT graduate, specializes in women's health and the treatment of infertility, and is board certified in Oriental Reproductive Medicine. Janice works with reproductive endocrinologists to ensure that women receive the best integrated care available on their journeys to parenthood. She currently practices in Santa Monica, California.
• Florence Lim, L.Ac, Dipl. O.M. obtained her medical degree specializing in traditional Chinese medicine at the prestigious Shanghai University of TCM. In her practice, she emphasizes using an integrative approach that includes diagnostic methods of both western and eastern medicine, acupuncture and herbal treatment, as well as lifestyle, diet, and nutritional counseling.
Congratulations to all four recipients!
