NCCAOM Governance

David Canzone, DOM, Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM^®), Dipl. NBAO earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco Art Institute in 1981. He completed his Asian Medicine studies at Southwest Acupuncture College in 1988 and became licensed in New Mexico in 1989 where he has practiced Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine full time in Santa Fe. In 1996 he was appointed by the Governor of New Mexico to the New Mexico Board of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He served until the year 2002 finishing his last year as Chair of the Board.

Dr. Canzone’s passion is Integrative Medicine and has continually worked to advance the integration of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine into his community’s healthcare system. In 1996 he convinced Santa Fe’s St. Vincent’s Regional Hospital to allow DOM’s hospital privileges so that patients could have access to Acupuncture. To accomplish this goal he assisted the staff in writing standards for credentialing, wrote clinical pathways and defined a scope of practice for Oriental medicine appropriate for a hospital setting. Together with his wife, Sandra Canzone, he has worked with local Oncologists to provide access for patients to Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine services in various clinical settings. Currently the Canzone’s are the Integrative Medicine Providers for St. Vincent’s Cancer Center and work closely with the Center and the hospitals’ foundation to provide Acupuncture and Oriental medicine services to the community both in the hospital and as out-patients.

Dr. Canzone has been directly involved in successful legislative efforts in New Mexico to help create one of the broadest scopes of practice for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine practitioners in the United States. He was a founding member of the Federation of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Regulatory Agencies (FAOMRA) and served on their Board from 1997-2001. He was a participant of ACAOM’s Doctoral Task Force from 2004 – 2005 and currently serves as Vice Chair of the NCCAOM^® Board of Commissioners and is Chair of the NCCAOM’s Recertification Committee.

Weiyi Ding, MD (China), RN, Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM^®) earned an MD from Shanghai University of TCM in 1976 and an RN degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1993. Ding was a core faculty member at Shanghai University of TCM for 10 years and has been a professor at Bastyr University since 1996.

She has practiced acupuncture and Chinese Herbology combined with Western medicine for over 30 years which include eight years RN experience at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the University of Washington Medical Center. She is the co-author of several TCM books published in China.

Ding has been a member and chair of several NCCAOM examination developing committees for the past 10 years. Currently, Ding is the Chair of the Council of Exam Committee Chairs, Chair of the Chinese Herbology Examination Development Committee and serves on the Executive Committee as Member-At-Large.

Susan A. Chapman, Ph.D., R.N. joined the NCCAOM^® Board in 2007. She is currently Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Nursing, Director of the Masters program in Health Policy Nursing, and a member of the Research faculty at the Center for the Health Professions.

Chapman received her bachelor’s of science in nursing from the University of Iowa, a master’s of science in nursing from Boston College, a master’s of science in public health from Boston University, and doctorate in health services and policy analysis from U.C. Berkeley.

Susan currently chairs the Commission’s Research Taskforce and is a member of the Finance /Audit Committee, the Recertification Committee and serves as Board Liaison to the Biomedicine Exam Development Committee.

Bryn Clark, L.Ac., Dipl.O.M. (NCCAOM^®) began his medical career with the study of Japanese Shiatsu in 1989. Studies followed in a number of Asian Bodywork modalities. He has authored a chapter entitled “Asian Bodywork” in Contemporary Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, (Cassidy, Ph.D., Dipl. Ac., (2002), part of the Medical Guides to Complementary and Alternative Medicine series edited by Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD. Clark earned a Clinical Master’s degree in Acupuncture at Maryland’s Tai Sophia Institute (then the Traditional Acupuncture Institute) in 1998 and at the same institution completed a graduate credential in Chinese Herbology.

He is a Diplomate of Oriental Medicine and has held faculty positions in two ACAOM-accredited Chinese Herbology programs:the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture, in Hallendale, Florida, and Tai Sophia Institute, Laurel, Maryland.

Clark guided legislative reform of Pennsylvania acupuncture practice law as Secretary of the Association for Professional Acupuncture, and also served as President of the Acupuncture Society of Pennsylvania, 2001-02. He helped to found the Congress on the Future of Traditional Medicines, which seeks to preserve Oriental Medicine practitioners’ access to their historical Materia Medica, amidst increasing FDA regulation.

He was elected to the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM^®) in 2002, and currently serves as Secretary of its Board of Commissioners. Bryn is currently in private practice in Oriental Medicine at his clinic, New Harmony Center for Health and Wellness, in Beverly, MA.

Dr. Ward-Cook has over 35 years of experience as a medical laboratory professional, educator, and executive in association management. She is certified as a medical technologist, MT(ASCP) and is a Certified Association Executive (CAE). From 1999 to 2004, Dr. Ward-Cook served as the Executive Director for the American Society for Clinical Pathology’s (ASCP) Board of Registry and Senior Vice President for the ASCP.

In the past, Dr. Ward-Cook has served as a faculty member and a program director for both a Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) program and a Medical Technology (MT) program. While serving as a faculty member and program director of the MT program in the School of Allied Health Professions at the Ohio State University, Dr. Ward-Cook also maintained a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Pathology. As a tenured Associate Professor, Dr. Ward-Cook instructed and served as an advisor for undergraduate students in medical technology, graduate students in the School of Allied Health Professions and the Department of Pathology.

Currently, Dr. Ward-Cook serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM^®). During her tenure at the NCCAOM^® she has been instrumental in bringing computer based testing to the organization, and facilitated an 86% increase in the media and public awareness of the acupuncture and Oriental medicine profession through press releases and pubic relations efforts. In 2007, Dr. Ward-Cook successfully orchestrated a successful relocation of the national headquarters from Alexandria, Virginia to Jacksonville, Florida. In 2008 she co-directed the organization’s most recent practice analysis resulting in the publication of the 2008 Job Task Analysis: A Report to the AOM Profession. Dr. Ward-Cook also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC).

Tess Hahn, L.Ac, OMD, Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM^®) currently practices Oriental Medicine near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Dr. Hahn earned her baccalaureate at California State University, and graduated from California Acupuncture College. After her clinical internship at the Institute of Traditional Medicine, Beijing, she practiced acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in Germany until moving to California, where she practiced Oriental Medicine for several years. Hahn earned her OMD at SAMRA University and completed training in Acupuncture Orthopedics at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Currently, she practices AOM at her clinic in northern Idaho.

An active member of the Idaho Acupuncture Association since 1991 Hahn also served as a Commissioner on the Idaho Board of Acupuncture between 1999 and 2005. In November 2005, she received a Commendation for Distinguished Public service from Idaho’s Governor.

On the national level, Tess represented Idaho on the Federation of Acupuncture Regulatory Agencies (FAOMRA) and held the office of vice-president of that organization until she was elected as a Commissioner on the Board of the NCCAOM beginning January 2006.

Hahn currently serves on the NCCAOM’s Finance and Recertification Committees. One of her keenest interests at NCCAOM has been working as a subject matter expert on the Examination Development Committees (Foundations of Oriental Medicine & Biomedicine modules). She was the first chair of the Council of Exam Committee Chairs and devoted considerable time to the NCCAOM’s Job Tasks Analysis which informs the examinations’ content outlines. She has served as Chair of the Board of Commissioners since 2008.

Michael J. Garland, D. Sc. Rel., is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, where he served on the faculty since 1978.

He graduated in Philosophy and Letters from St. Louis University and earned a Master of Theology degree from the University of Notre Dame and received a doctorate in religious studies from the University of Strasbourg in France, where he focused on ethics. Dr. Garland has published widely on ethical issues in health policy.

Garland was invited to join the NCCAOM® Board of Commissioners in January 2005 and serves on the Professional Ethics and Discipline Committee and chairs the Finance Committee. Dr. Garland also serves as Treasurer of the Commission.

Denise Hsu was born and educated in Shanghai, China. She received her medical degree from Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and has been trained in both Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. Hsu completed her internship and residency in the Teaching Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Shanghai Second Medical University. There, she practiced
in Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture and Western surgical technology in the Orthopedic Department.

Hsu has over twenty years experience in practicing acupuncture and Chinese Herbology. She is a certified acupuncturist with experience serving on both California and national boards. These experiences included working as a Board Member at the California Certified Acupuncture Association between 1988 and 1993.  She has been a teaching professor for the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco since 1990, and has served as chair of the Chinese Medicine Department since 2000. Hsu has worked for Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara since 1998 and also maintains her private practice in Sunnyvale, California.

Hsu wants to make her contribution to the medical profession by using her solid education in Chinese medicine to serve the AOM community. She currently serves on the Board of Commissioners for NCCAOM^® and is a member of the Governance Documents Committee, the Professional Ethics and Disciplinary Committee, and as Board Liaison to the Acupuncture and Point Location Examination Development Committee.

Mike Klug serves as a consultant to the SMP (Senior Medicare Patrol) National Resource Center’s volunteer risk and program management project under a grant from the Administration on Aging (AoA). From 2004 to 2010, he worked for the Health Assistance Partnership (HAP) and directed its Medicare Education and Training team from 2008 to 2010. Prior to joining HAP, Mike consulted for several organizations that deal with Medicare education, outreach, and advocacy, including the Westport Cooperative Services’ Medicare Assistance Program (MAP) of Kansas City, Missouri; the SHIP National Resource Center, and the Citizen Advocacy Center’s (CAC) QUALNet program, providing support and technical assistance for the beneficiary board members of Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO).

Mike has worked as a trainer, writer and volunteer program manager for more than twenty-five years.  He began his career as a consultant trainer for AARP’s Medicare-Medicaid Assistance Program (MMAP) and later joined AARP’s staff, working at its headquarters in Washington, DC and at regional and state offices in Kansas City. He received his B.A. degree from St. Louis University in 1977 and is a 1984 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, Wisconsin. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

Mike serves as a public member on the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine. His service extends to the Professional Ethics and Disciplinary Committee (PEDC), Recertification Committee, Governance Documents Committee and as guest to the Finance/Audit Committee.

Eugene London, L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM), is a graduate of the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences in Oakland, California. He has been a California Licensed Acupuncturist and an NCCAOM Diplomate since 1987 and is currently completing a Doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where he is a clinical faculty member and has taught and administered in a variety of positions for more than a decade, including director of the Community Acupuncture Program and HIV Program from 1999 to 2002. He also has studied at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and at Yang Pu District Hospital in Shanghai, China.

Active for many years in community healthcare, promoting accessibility and cultural competency, his Chinese medicine clinical experience encompasses private practice, community acupuncture clinics, hospitals, and integrative medicine offices. He has served as a member of the San Francisco HIV Health Services Council, clinical director of the Immune Enhancement Project, and director of acupuncture services at St. James Infirmary. His publications include ANAC Core Curriculum for HIV Nursing (co-author, Chinese medicine modules) and Chinese Medicine: A Guide for People with HIV.

Commissioner London began volunteering for the NCCAOM in the mid-1990s (initially as a point location examiner and later as a subject matter expert) and was elected to the Board of Commissioners in 2011. He currently serves on the Eligibility Committee, the Research Task Force, and the Council of Examination Committee Chairs, and as Chair of the PDA Advisory Panel and Chair and Board Liaison of the Foundations of Oriental Medicine Examination Development Committee.

As an NCCAOM^® triple Diplomate, Jan Ste Germaine has been in an Oriental Medicine (OM) private practice for 22 years. In that time, she sat as a director on a national board; created, administrated, and taught OM programs in the Kansas City metroplex, in massage schools and community colleges; participated in Missouri and Kansas legislative initiatives to secure the profession; and presented lectures and seminars in local businesses building bridges with the community. Privileged to study with Shiatsu Master Shizuko Yamamoto, she transitioned from a 14-year career teaching in the public schools to Shiatsu practitioner. Further studies in Boston included instruction from Cindy Banker and Barbara Blanchard at the New England Shiatsu Center.

In October, 1992 she traveled to Beijing, China to study at Guan-an-men Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.   In 1994-1995 she attended a two-year course in Chinese Herbal Medicine with Ted J. Kaptchuk, OMD.  Ste Germaine graduated in 1999 with a master’s of science in Oriental medicine from the Midwest College in Chicago, Illinois.

Member of AAAOM, AOBTA^®, and the AAM (Acupuncture Association of Missouri), she serves as chair of AAM’s Fundraising Committee.  In 2007 she was nationally elected to NCCAOM^®’s Board of Commissioners and now serves on NCCAOM^®’s Eligibility Committee, Finance/Audit Committee, Recertification Committee and the Foundations of Oriental Medicine Exam Development Committee.

Ste Germaine has been honored with the AOBTA President’s Award, an Outstanding Service award in 1998, and Continued Service award in 2005.

NCCAOM is continually seeking high profile experts and broad thinking people in the fields of Acupuncture, Oriental medicine, Chinese herbology, and Asian bodywork therapy to serve on committees. Normally the NCCAOM looks to its volunteer base when considering potential new Board members.

NCCAOM committees are standing work groups of the Board of Commissioners (BOC) appointed to assist in governing more efficiently by investigating, deliberating and analyzing special issues on behalf of the Board. Appointments require a minimum one-year commitment. Individuals are appointed as a “Guest” for the first year of service. Appointments may be offered as a “Member” for the second and subsequent years. Volunteers who have served as a “Guest” and at least one year as a “Member” may be eligible to serve as a committee chair.

For information on the NCCAOM volunteer policies, committee charges and responsibilities, as well as position descriptions the following volunteer resources are available:

• NCCAOM^® Volunteer Handbook
• Volunteer Application

Please contact the NCCAOM Executive Office for more information on becoming an NCCAOM volunteer.