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Program Director
Eric Michaelsen is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine practicing in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Originally from Michigan, he graduated from Kalamazoo College with dual degrees in English and Japanese before accepting a post with Teach For America in New Orleans.
Eric’s style of acupuncture is based in Japanese Meridian Therapy and incorporates sotai and Japanese-style herbal diagnosis. His teachers include T. Koei Kuwahara-Sensei and he has studied in the style of Shudo-Sensei as well. He occasionally provides translations and, more rarely, articles for the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine.
In his free time, Eric is a devoted bicyclist, hiker, coffee drinker, hi-fi enthusiast, and cinephile and can usually be found trying to shoehorn as many of those into one day as possible with his partner Alena, daughter Frances, and their bevy of rescue mutts.