Positive Health Online

Bernadette Ward PhD MSc (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is Director of the Acupuncture Foundation Ireland. She is an Acupuncturist and Herbalist having studied with The Acupuncture Foundation Ireland  and The Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China. She regularly visits and studies at the Nanjing University and monitors her students on clinical placement in hospitals around the city of Nanjing. She has been active in TCM education and clinical work in Ireland for many years. She completed an Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Middlesex University London and has been a long term active campaigner for government registration of Acupuncturists and Chinese medicine in Ireland for many years. She is a Vice President of the WFCMS (World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies International Instruction Committee and chair of the PEFOTS (Pan European Federation of TCM Societies) Education Committee. She recently completed her doctorate and had her book published -  CAM An Irish Solution to a Global Question - an analysis of the CAM sector.  Her research topic was skills based education and training as it applied to complementary therapies. She may be contacted via bwardafi@hotmail.com