ISAMS - International Scientific Acupuncture and Meridian Symposium

摘要

The fourth International Scientific Acupuncture and Meridian Symposium (iSAMS) was held on 5-7 October 2012 at the University of Technology, Sydney with a theme of 'Moving Acupuncture Research Forward - Issues and Solutions'. As its title suggests, the symposium focused on research. Forty nine keynote and invited speakers came from 11 countries and districts. All speakers are active researchers themselves with diverse backgrounds, including Chinese medicine, Western medicine, public health and social science. Yet the conference was not just for researchers. Most speakers gave excellent presentations making their complicated research easily understood by non-researchers, so the significance of the research results could be fully appreciated. More than half of the conference attendees were practitioners and who enjoyed the mental stimulation and shared the moments of excitement.