Integrating Modern Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine -- Volume 1: Acupuncture
Dr. Tsun-Nin Lee received his B.A. from Columbia College and M.D. from New York University School of Medicine.  He received his postgraduate training in medicine at the University Hospital of Jacksonville in Florida.  In 1975, he became a diplomate of Advanced Chinese Acupuncture at the Hong Kong Acupuncture institute.  In the Same year, he was awarded the Certificate of Competence from the Chinese Medical Institute in Hong Kong. He is the permanent honorary director of the Cultural Center of Chinese Medicine in Hong Kong.  He is a member of the Chinese Association of the integration of Traditional and Western Medicine.  Dr. Lee has practiced and taught integrative medicine for more than 35 years.  He is the director of the Academy of Pain Research, which first organized a prototype acupuncture training course in 1979, the forerunner of the Comprehensive Training Course on Acupuncture for Physicians.  In 2003, Dr. Lee designed and established the Comprehensive Training Course on Herbal Medicine for Physicians to complement the acupuncture training program (www.acupuncturecourse.org).  Thousands of physicians have benefited from Dr. Lee's courses in integrating modern and traditional Chinese medicine.   Dr. Tsun-Nin Lee is the proponent of the thalamic neuron theory, which was published in a series of papers between 1976 and 2002 in Medical Hypothesis, to explain the phenomena and principles of traditional Chinese medicine from the modern scientific point of view, as well as to shed light on many enigmas encountered in the practice of modern medicine.