A graduate of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and a fluent Chinese speaker, Eric has pursued extensive academic and clinical opportunities in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Following a prolonged internship at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan, Eric became immersed in numerous projects related to Chinese medical translation and herbal research. He is the author of A Clinician’s Guide to the Use of Granule Extracts andthe co-author of the text Concise Chinese Materia Medica, and he has edited a variety of modern and classical texts.
Eric has a particular passion for Chinese herbal processing, herbal authentication and quality discernment. He serves as a TCM advisor to the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia and is a U.S. delegate for the ISO Technical Committee committee on TCM standards.