Staff
Meet our Team
- Bin Sheng Dong – MD (China), Tui Na Oriental Bodywork Specialist, Chinese Herbalist
- Natalia Epstein – Dipl. Ac, Licensed Acupuncturist
- Hing Lan Lo – BA, AAS, MAOM, RN, Licensed Acupuncturist, Chinese Herbalist
- Yuanling Liu – MA, MAOM, Licensed Dietitian, Acupuncture, and Herbalist
- Eugenia “Gennie” Lai – MA, MAOM, Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified Chinese Herbalist
- Mariam Shahidi, Lic. Ac. Maom. RN
- Eric Tang – Tui Na Oriental Bodywork Specialist
- Qin Wang – MD (China), Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified Chinese Herbalist
- Shulai Wang – MD (China), Tui Na Oriental Bodywork Specialist, Chinese Herbalist
- Yadong Yang – MA, Medical Qigong Master
- Lai Yee Yuen – BA, MAOM, Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified Chinese Herbalist
- Yao Zhang – MD, MS (China), Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified Chinese Herbalist
Bin Sheng Dong – MD (China), Tui Na Oriental Bodywork Specialist, Chinese Herbalist
2006 marked Dr. Dong’s 50th year as a health care provider. He graduated as a MD from the Second Medical University in Shanghai in 1956 and completed extensive graduate training at Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medical University (including acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and Tui Na) in the 1970’s and 1980’s. From 1989-1992 Dr. Dong was Chief Physician in Charge at the Shanghai Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital. The Chinese Medicine Association honored him as the most valuable Eastern and Western Medical Doctor in China. In the United States, he was a visiting professor at both Massachusetts General Hospital and New England Medical Center in 1995. His many years of experience in both Chinese and western medicine make him an excellent consultant with internal medicine conditions that are difficult to treat, including gastrointestinal, endocrine, renal, diabetic, respiratory, cardiovascular, and autoimmune diseases. Additionally, he is well-experienced in Oriental Tui Na Bodywork.
Natalia Epstein – Dipl. Ac, Licensed Acupuncturist
Natalia was born in Russia and immigrated to U.S. in 1991. Since she was a young woman, she was interested in energy and spiritual work and believed that our bodies are more mysterious than we think. Finally, Natalia attended the New England School of Acupuncture and became an acupuncturist in order to help people achieve healthy minds and bodies. Her primary approach employs the balance method. This approach allows modern practitioners to achieve the same results as ancient Chinese masters. Natalia specializes in body pain, including migraine, digestion, allergy, stress relief, and more.
Hing Lan Lo – BA, AAS, MAOM, RN, Licensed Acupuncturist, Chinese Herbalist
Ms. Lo believes acupuncture is a powerful tool for individuals to access their wholeness and healing power within, enabling the body to relieve pain and promote well being. Her special interests are acute or chronic musculo-skeletal pain management, radiation and chemotherapy support, autoimmune diseases such as IBS and MS, headache, stress reduction, depression, addiction recovery, menopausal issues, allergy and sinus problems. Ms. Lo emigrated to this country in 1986 from Hong Kong where she was a teacher, a researcher, and a community worker. Ms. Lo worked as an RN in oncology before receiving a master’s degree in Oriental Medicine (MAOM) from the New England School of Acupuncture, Watertown, MA in 2002.
Yuanling Liu – MA, MAOM, Licensed Dietitian, Acupuncture, and Herbalist
Yuanling Liu was born in China, in a family with a strong emphasis on maintaining a healthy body and mind through healthy eating, positive mind set, and active lifestyle. She started to practice Qigong with her family as a child, and become a Certified Qigong instructor by Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Institute. Her special interests are weight management, gastrointinal conditions, Women’s health, Children’s health, and pain issues. She provides customized meal plan for each individual especially for condition like diabetes, cardiac, gastrointestinal (reflux, irritated bowl, colitis, and Crohn’s diseases), Kidney diseases (kidney failure or stones), obesity, preenal/postnatal nutrition care and pediatric attention deficit disorders. Yuanling has been traveling to China every year to further her study in Chinese Medicine. Acupuncture, and Qigong. Her goal is to combine traditional Chinese healing art with modern nutrition, to restore health, create vibrant and joyful life.
Eugenia “Gennie” Lai – MA, MAOM, Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified Chinese Herbalist
Eugenia completed four years of study and clinical work at the New England School of Acupuncture earning a Master’s Degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. she continues her professional development through apprenticeships to internationally recognized acupuncturists and has a personal tradition of annual trip to Taiwan for advanced trainings with well-known TCM practitioners there. Eugenia specializes in Japanese Style Acupuncture, a gentle style of result-oriented acupuncture. In the spirit of Oriental health care, Eugenia creates treatments tailored to each individual and geared towards treating illness at its root. As an herbalist, Eugenia’s herbal support acupuncture treatments. Eugenia specailizes in pain management including neck, shoulder, and back pains, headaches, and sciatica pain. she also treats woman’s issues including menopausal discomfort, fibromyalgia, and infertility.
Mariam Shahidi, Lic. Ac. Maom. RN
Mariam has a Masters degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medecine (MAOM) from the New England School of Acupuncture. She has a bachelor in Psychelor from Tehran University of Iran, and a bachelor science in Nursing from UMass Boston. Her compassion is always in health and healing which led her strong interest in alternative medicine. Mariam’s practices includes Chinese and Japenese style of acupuncture, auricular therapy, Crniosacral therapy, and Reiki, and she treats variety of conditions which include psycho-emotional issues, acute and chronic pain conditions, streess induced illnesses by providing multi-organ support and different dimensional mind and body support. Mariam believes that healing happens within an individual, and the role of medicine is to support the bady’s ability to heal itself. Mariam is also affiliated with Marlborough Hospital and currently on staff in Intensive Care Unit.
Eric Tang – Tui Na Oriental Bodywork Specialist
Mr. Tang began his career at age 18 as an army medic specializing in acupuncture. After that he completed further studies for 2 years in the hospital level and worked clinically until 1988 when he relocated to Japan. For five years he practiced acupuncture and Oriental Bodywork at a Tokyo clinic and in 1993 he made the Boston area his home. Mr. Tang specializes in muscular pain conditions including pain management and tension relief. He also utilizes acupressure foot massage and facial rejuvenation massage.
Qin Wang – MD (China), Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified Chinese Herbalist
Ms. Wang graduated with an MD from Liaoning Traditional Medical College (China) in 1988 and subsequently worked as Physician in Charge and as a gynecologist at the Liaoning Traditional Medical Hospital and Liaoning Postal Hospital practicing acupuncture, herbal medicine, and Tui Na therapeutic bodywork. She has many years’ clinical experience in OB-GYN issues and pain management.
Shulai Wang – MD (China), Tui Na Oriental Bodywork Specialist, Chinese Herbalist
In 1971 Mr. Wang received his MD from Beijing Medical College and subsequently practiced Internal Medicine, Gynecology, and Pediatrics for many years. During the period of 1984-1987, he received additional training in acupuncture, Tui Na, and Chinese herbal medicine at Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. After that, Mr. Wang continued working at both the departments of Trauma and Injury and of Pediatrics for over 10 years. Once in the US, he conducted medical research at the University of Vermont and Columbia University (1998-2000). Since locating to the Boston area, he has worked as a Tui Na Oriental Bodywork Specialist. He specializes in musculo-skeletal conditions including acute and chronic injury, arthritis, but also in pediatric Tui Na treatments, sinus conditions, asthma, gastrointestinal disturbances, and headache.
Yadong Yang – MA, Medical Qigong Master
Qigong Master Yang’s pracitce of Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong for over twenty years enables him to both sense and emit energy associated with Qi (bio-electromagnetic fields). This ability allows him to detect and localize lesions in the human body and effectively heal medical problems. Master Yang is a member of the Chinese Medical Qigong Association and was principle Qigong instructor at the Keiwa Qigong Institute in Tokyo, Japan and in China. He has been practicing Medical Qigong in the United States since 1997, specializing in depression, heart disease, blood pressure imbalances, stroke, asthma, sciatica, paraplegia/hemiplegia, blood sugar imbalances, and thyroid conditions.
Lai Yee Yuen – BA, MAOM, Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified Chinese Herbalist
Lai Yee Received her Master’s Degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the New England School of Acupuncture. She has treated patients with a variety of conditions ranging from physical pain to chronic illnesses and emotional disorders. Combining her undergraduate studies in the biological basis of psychology at the University of Chicago, she has a special interest in treating psycho-emotional condition such as anxiety and depression. The mind/body approach of Oriental Medicine is particularly effective for treating these conditions.
Yao Zhang – MD, MS (China), Licensed Acupuncturist, Certified Chinese Herbalist
Ms. Zhang received her MD from Hebei Medical College in 1982 and her MS from China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Beijing) in 1987. She is one of the first 10 practitioners to be certified (NCCAOM) as a Chinese Herbalist in the United States and has practiced acupuncture and herbal medicine since 1983. In 1993 she founded NEAOHS in Arlington, MA. Ms. Zhang taught in the New England School of Acupuncture for nine years and has practiced acupuncture and herbal medicine at the Spence Center for Women’s Health in Cambridge, MA. She specialized in OB-GYN issues and internal medicine.















































