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Edward (Ted) Harold Davis
Attending TCM Physician & Practitioner

Bachelor of Economics (Honours), (Monash University, Melbourne)
Master of Applied Science (Research), (La Trobe University, Melbourne)
Doctor of Philosophy, (Medicina Alternativa Institute, Open University for Complementary Medicines, Colombo)
Practitioner Diploma of Acupuncture, (Australian Acupuncture College, Melbourne)
Diploma of Chinese Herbal Medicine, (Australian College of Oriental Medicine, Melbourne)
Certificate of Oriental Massage, (Australian Acupuncture College, Melbourne)

Member: Acupuncture Ethics and Standards Organisation (AESO), Australian Acupuncture Association (AAcA) and/or Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association Ltd. (AACMA), No. 495, since January 1989.
Accredited in Acupuncture [1989] and Chinese Herbal Medicine [1996].

Registered: Registered with the Chinese Medicine Registration Board of Victoria (Australia), No. A/0603, since its inception in 2002.
Ted is registered in the acupuncture division of the Register of Chinese Medicine, not in the Chinese herbal medicine division.

Previous Clinical Experience
Locum services, part-practice in home residence, sports medicine acupuncturist at an Australian rules football club, part and full time clinical practice, supervisor of student drug/substance-abuse rehabilitation clinic, full & part-time Chinese medicine physician at The Greville Street Clinic, Prahran, Victoria.

Professional
Member of the Editorial Board for the Pacific Journal of Oriental Medicine, 1993 (ongoing).
Australian Journal of Acupuncture, 1993.
Federal Treasurer of AESO, 1994.

Teaching
Considerable tertiary teaching (lectures, tutorials, demonstrations, practicals, subject supervision) at universities and private colleges from 1989 to 2002, both full time and sessional.
Subject areas included Chinese medicine (particularly acupuncture), neuroscience, anatomy and physiology.

Universities: LaTrobe University, Melbourne; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne.
Subjects included anatomy (including detailed whole-body dissection), physiology and neuroscience subjects were taught to professional student streams such as chiropractic, osteopathic, Chinese medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatory, orthoptics, speech pathology, prosthetics & orthotics and nursing. Neuroscience and head & neck and gross/general anatomy were something of specialties at the undergraduate level.

University Colleges: St.Hilda's College, University College, of The University of Melbourne. Anatomy tutoring.

Private Colleges & Teaching:
1) Australian Acupuncture College Inc. [the antecedent TCM (acupuncture) course to that which began at Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne]: Acupuncture and TCM subjects.
2) Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Australia), Northcote: Acupuncture and anatomy subjects.
3) Malvern School of Massage and Kinesiology (now Copeland College of Massage Therapy), North Caulfield: Anatomy and physiology subjects.
4) Australian College of Natural Medicine, Camberwell, Melbourne: Neural and endocrine subjects.
5) Yoga (Iyenger) teacher training: Anatomy and physiology subjects. This short course (about 40 hrs) was taught on three occasions in the 1990's to students of Mr Peter Scott, Yoga exponent and teacher.

Publications & Research
Fourteen (14) articles published in 4 professional journals since 1991: Australian Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Australian Journal of Acupuncture, Pacific Journal of Oriental Medicine and European Journal of Oriental Medicine.
Copies of these articles should be available from the publishing journals or from appropriate libraries.
Most are available for download from other pages of this web site - usually with some small degree of editing since the original publication.

Master of Applied Science (Research) (LaTrobe University) 1996. Human Physiology: Relationships with Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Several chapters of this thesis are available for download on the 'West Meets East' pages of this web site.

Seven (7) volumes of PhD preparation material, mainly in the area of TCM theory.
Some of this is available for download from this web site, particularly on the TCM Theory page.

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