Practitioner and Staff
Practitioner and Staff
Chief Practitioner: Hanbiao Cao, L.Ac.
April 1997 - October 1997 Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo University, Japan
(Biomedicine Research in Biochemistry, Ph.D. Program)
September 1985 - May 1989 Graduate School,
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
Master of Medicine
( Specialized in Study of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture Schools and Literature )
September 1979 - June 1984 Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
Bachelor of Medicine
( Major in Acupuncture/Tui-Na/TCM Orthopedics )
License No. MD U01217
NCCAOM Certificate No. 018896
Doctor Cao (MD in China) was a graduate from Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1984. Major in Traditional Chinese Acupuncture and Therapeutic Manipulation. With an outstanding scores of graduation examination, Doctor Cao was offered a research position to work in Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine system and was placed in Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Meridian as an junior research fellow in the field of acupuncture doctrines and literatures. In the first year of his career as an acupuncture profession, he worked as a junior editor in the Editorial Section of the professional magazine Journal of Shanghai Acupuncture, which is published by the Research Institute and well known worldwide. The next year, while working as an acupuncture doctrine researcher, Doctor Cao was admitted into the Graduate School of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to pursue his Master degree of Medicine specialized in the field of Acupuncture doctrines and literatures with the sponsor of the Research Institute. Because of this sponsorship, Doctor Cao still kept his privileges to see patients in the outpatient center of the Research Institute like before. During the time in the Graduate School, Doctor Cao studied under worldwide well-known Acupuncture scholar, Professor Xianming Huang, who used to serve as the Director of International Center of Acupuncture Education & Training in Shanghai, also one of the Directors of the Board of World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies.
After completed his graduate school study, doctor Cao worked in a private company as a Tui-Na therapist for two years. In December 1991, doctor Cao moved to Japan and lived there with his wife, who was studying for Ph.D. in the field of immunology in Kobe University, Japan, for years. At first, in the city of Kobe, he worked as an assistant acupuncturist and massage therapist in Ishibashi Acupuncture Clinic for half year. During the time, doctor Cao got interacted with Japanese acupuncturist and Japanese Seitai therapist, learned Seitai techniques like Shiatsu and body manipulation. Later, doctor Cao worked for Health Farm Co (based in Osaka) as a Shiatsu therapist for one year. In the May of 1993, doctor Cao moved to the city Chiba and obtained his therapist job in Tokyo, Japan. He worked for Tanimoto Therapy Clinic for several years. During that period of time, doctor Cao also worked part time as a partner in the group of Chinese Qi-Gong Therapy Center, which was based in Koiwa of Tokyo. From September of 1996, doctor Cao started work for a health clinic based in Shinjuku of Tokyo. Then sooner, he helped the clinic's owner company as a co-founder to start a therapy-job training school-The Research Institute of Seitai Therapy. Doctor Cao worked as a president, dean and clinic instructor of the school for years until he left Japan for the US.
After moved to the US in 2000, doctor Cao passed his National Board, NCCAOM's examination and got certified as an Diplomate Acupuncturist. Then, he got licensed in Maryland in the fall of 2002. In November, doctor Cao started his practice in Ellicott City. During the time, doctor Cao worked part time in Bel Air and Owings Mill for MD Acupuncture and Herb for about three years. From November of 2010, doctor Cao started his Laurel office to see patients from greater Laurel and adjacent DC area.