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Peggy Welch MSc PhD DipCN LMT Research Director, after many years in business management, retrained in 1993 as a licensed massage therapist (LMT) in Oregon and later as a certified nutritionist through American Health Science University. She has, however, concentrated on remedial bodywork with a special focus on postural correction, injury recovery and managing chronic pain. In 1997 she founded the Oregon Coast School of Massage, of which she was owner/director until 2001. Peggy completed an MSc in Complementary Therapies (Bodywork) at the University of Westminster in 2003 and she was awarded her PhD in Health Research by Lancaster University in 2011. Peggy has a wide variety of teaching experience and is keen to promote practitioner designed research for the furtherance of CAM therapies. At the Northern College of Acupuncture - NCA Peggy runs the dissertation stage of our MSc courses, leading the team of research supervisors and supporting students as they conduct and write up their research. Peggy may be contacted via peggywelch@chinese-medicine.co.uk  www.chinese-medicine.co.uk/