Bridging the Two Worlds: Worldwide Reflections on the 2024 Hong Kong SAR/PolyU Conference

Jerry Wing-Fai Yeung^{1

2}, Afua Bromley³, Younbyoung Chae⁴, Denise Shuk Ting Cheung⁵, Lisa Conboy^{6

7}, Sandro Graca^{8

9}, Kate Levett¹⁰, Kathleen Lumiere¹¹, Rosa Schnyer¹², Kristen Sparrow¹³, Liming Tseng³, John Yoo¹⁴, Yu-Qing Zhang^{15

16}, Claudia Citkovitz³

Affiliations

¹ School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
² Research Centre for Chinese Medicine Innovation, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
³ New England College of Acupuncture at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, MA, USA.
⁴ Acupuncture and Meridian Science Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
⁵ School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
⁶ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁸ School of Health and Society, Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Research, Northern College of Acupuncture, York, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Australia, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.
¹¹ Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA, USA.
¹² School of Nursing, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
¹³ Private Practice, San Francisco, CA, USA.
¹⁴ Virginia University of Integrative Medicine, Vienna, VA, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (formerly the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁶ School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Jerry Wing-Fai Yeung et al. J Integr Complement Med. 2024 Dec.

. 2024 Dec;30(12):1125-1129.

doi: 10.1089/jicm.2024.0819. Epub 2024 Nov 11.

¹ School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
² Research Centre for Chinese Medicine Innovation, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
³ New England College of Acupuncture at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Worcester, MA, USA.
⁴ Acupuncture and Meridian Science Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
⁵ School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
⁶ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁸ School of Health and Society, Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Research, Northern College of Acupuncture, York, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Australia, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.
¹¹ Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA, USA.
¹² School of Nursing, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
¹³ Private Practice, San Francisco, CA, USA.
¹⁴ Virginia University of Integrative Medicine, Vienna, VA, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (formerly the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics), McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁶ School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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