Shelley Ochs is a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, a translator of modern and classical Chinese medical texts, and a scholar specializing in the cultural and intellectual history of medicine in early China. Dr. Ochs completed her Ph.D. in the History of Chinese Medicine and Chinese Literature at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (2013), Beijing, China. Her current research focuses on the role of culture and religion in the early formation of Chinese medical theory and practice. She regularly writes articles on Chinese medicine for both academic and clinical journals. She has been teaching a class on Chinese medicine for undergraduates at TBC every semester since 2008.
Shelley Ochs is a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, a translator of modern and classical Chinese medical texts, and a scholar specializing in the cultural and intellectual history of medicine in early China. She was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky in the United States. From 1989-93 she lived in Taizhong, Taiwan, where she studied Chinese language and literature.
She completed a B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madision (1996). Her clinical training began with an M.S. in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Bilingual Program of the American College of Traditional Chinese medicine in San Francisco (2000). She was the only non-native Chinese speaker in the program, which used the same “fifth-edition” textbooks required by Chinese medicine universities in China. Her first published work was a translation of Jiao Shude’s Ten Lectures on the Use of Medicinals (Paradigm Press, 2001), completed with Nigel Wiseman.
In 2007, Dr. Ochs came to Beijing for traditional apprenticeship training with senior acupuncturist Dr. Wang juyi in Beijing. She has been in Beijing ever since, and lives with her husband, a native of Beijing, and their two children. Dr. Ochs completed her Ph.D. in the History of Chinese Medicine and Chinese Literature at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (2013), Beijing, China. Her current research focuses on the role of culture and religion in the early formation of Chinese medical theory and practice. She regularly writes articles on Chinese medicine for both academic and clinical journals. She has been teaching a class on Chinese medicine for undergraduates at TBC every semester since 2008.
