Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine

Presents
Shin Lin, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology, Neuroscience, & Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Lin is on the faculty of the Samueli Center and a long-time collaborator with researchers at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is currently a member of the National Advisory Council on Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine and the journal Chinese Medicine.

“Frontiers in the Integration of Eastern and Western Medicine”

After a brief introduction to the fundamental differences between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western medicine, Dr. Lin will give an overview of how modern biomedical technologies are applied in the mechanistic research on herbal medicine and Eastern mind-body practices. This will be followed by examples of the integrative use of Eastern and Western therapies to treat complicated diseases such as diabetes and cancer, and an inside look into some of the largest and most advanced hospitals for integrative medicine in China.