The NCCAOM is governed by the Chief Executive Officer and ten Commissioners who are voted into office by general election. In approving nominations, the Nominating Committee considers diversity in ethnicity, gender, geographic distribution, professional experience, education and school of thought within the profession.

David Canzone

Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM), NBAO

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. Canzones’ 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 on the NCCAOM’s Professional Ethics and Discipline Committee and the NCCAOM’s PEDC Committee.