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Tibetan medicine doctor
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Eliot Tokar is a traditional Tibetan medicine doctor and internationally experienced writer and lecturer. He has practiced Tibetan medicine in NYC since 1993, and is one of the first Westerners to have received extensive textual and clinical training in this field.
Eliot has lectured widely on healthcare at universities, medical colleges and institutions such as Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Washington Univ. School of Medicine in St. Louis, Princeton Univ., Yale Univ., NYU, NY Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the NY Botanical Garden and at the Asia Society (NY). He was the only Western clinician to speak at the first modern International Academic Conference on Tibetan Medicine in 2000 in Lhasa, Tibet.
Eliot’s work has appeared in American and international journals. His writings and lectures concern the theory and practice of Tibetan medicine, as well as the role of traditional Asian medicine in the context of globalization, including topics such as medical pluralism, integrative medicine, evidence-based medicine, biopiracy and intellectual property rights. Eliot has also served as an advisor to organizations such as the American Medical Student Association.
In 2008 his article “An Ancient Medicine in a New World” was featured with the work of many international scholars in “Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World: Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice” (pub. Routledge). In 2009 the book was awarded the International Convention of Asia Scholars Colleagues Choice Book Prize Award.
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