Message from the Founder

Dear friend,

My name is Rong Gang Li, the founder of UTCM Acupuncture Research & Education College. Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture was rooted in Asian countries for thousands of years, but when I started practicing twenty years ago in Vancouver BC, the medical practice was still a very young profession, with only slightly over 200 practitioners in the province. The concept of using needles to treat different types of health-related disorders was still quite foreign to many Canadians. After these two decades of servicing the local Vancouver communities, I witnessed gradual acceptance in Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture. The local residents, that experienced the benefits from Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture, started to incorporate the treatments to support their daily pain management and health-related issues. Many extended health insurance providers started to integrate Acupuncture into their benefit packages.  As well as the local government managed automotive insurance corporation also initiated changes to include Acupuncture as part of its motor vehicle injury treatment options to every automotive insurers in the province. Yet, there’s much more that Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture can offer to local community medical services, to offer more responsive patient care, and to relieve scarce hospital resources. Thus, I established this Acupuncture clinic, not only to service more local residents, but with the intention to continue promoting the profession encouraging more young minds to consider this passion as their careers, and also to share my thirty years of knowledge and skills with these young acupuncturists, strengthening their tools to provide high quality patient care. 

This clinic is unorthodox to many Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and multidisciplinary clinics because not only it provides clinical services to patient care but it is also an education centre to train UTCMH Acupuncture system, a very effective Acupuncture treatment methodology developed by myself to improve the effectiveness of the Acupuncture treatment results.  

If you are tired of taking pills everyday, tired of taking all sorts of synthetic chemicals into your body, tired of managing side effects because of different medications, then please do consider Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture. Acupuncture, especially, is a mechanical stimulation to heal your body and to trigger chemicals or hormones which are naturally produced by your own body. Moreover, I believe that Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture can be much more than as medical treatments. Its cultural values and health cultivation principles can be guides to healthier and fulfilling lifestyle for everyone. Seeing is believing, I encourage you to come try out. 

Only you have control of your health!