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Terminology standardization in Chinese medicine: The perspective from UCLA Center for East-West Medicine (I)

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  1. Ka-Kit Hui
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Ka Kit Hui, MD, Wallis Annenberg Chair in Integrative East-West Medicine, Founder & Director of the Center for East-West Medicine at UCLA, is a fellow of the American College of Physician, clinical pharmacologist and an expert on Chinese medicine and Integrative medicine. He is fluent in both Chinese and English.

Sonya Pritzker, M.S. (Oriental Medicine), M.A. (Anthropology) is a practicing acupuncturist and practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine in Santa Monica, CA, and has been involved with the terminology debates for over five years. She is currently a part time staff research assistant at the center and is in her third year of graduate studies in medical and linguistic anthropology at UCLA, where she is researching the role of language in Chinese medical education for her doctoral dissertation.

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Hui, KK., Pritzker, S. Terminology standardization in Chinese medicine: The perspective from UCLA Center for East-West Medicine (I). Chin. J Integ. Med. 13, 64–66 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-007-0064-2

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