About Us

David is a board certified acupuncturist and herbalist in New York and New Jersey, as well as a clinic supervisor at Pacific College of Health and Science. After attending undergrad between George Washington University and Baruch College, he earned his Masters degree in Chinese medicine 2013, and has been in practice since.

Upon quickly realizing that “TCM,” the version of the medicine that is taught in our schools, has an unsatisfactory ceiling for clinical efficacy, he began a diligent pursuit of continuing education in Classical Chinese Medicine, included a cumulative 3 years of voluntary residencies, plus consecutive years of virtual workshops under Dr. Suzanne Robidoux and Genevieve LeGoff, respectively. Advocating Chinese medicine, he has appeared on the WPIX11 News, is a contributing writer to Acupuncture Today and his own BLOG, and continues to study and instruct on the classical medical texts daily.

David’s whole childhood everyone labeled him as “healthy,” mostly because he was thin and athletic. But from a young age he suffered with intense eczema on his feet, and by his early twenties developed gout disease inherited from his father. He began to experience anxiety, and went to see a general practitioner who spoke to him for five minutes before writing a prescription for Paxil. When he got home he skeptically put the medication in his drawer, went to the bookstore, and instead bought a bunch of books on how to manage anxiety. He started seeing a therapist and quit smoking cigarettes, and symptoms began to improve.

Next he began dating an acupuncturist, who taught him how to eat, introduced him to the martial arts, and got him excited enough about Chinese Medicine to enroll in school. Now he is 20 years older, but in some ways 20 times healthier as a result of this education . Anxiety and gout symptoms are rare, and he can’t recall the last time his feet were itchy. 

David’s experience taught him that through the collective effort of patient and practitioner, almost anything is possible. His mission and purpose is to help patients with challenging cases who are willing to put in the time and work to regain their health, as he once did his own.

Because of the complexity of Chinese medicine and the limitations of our formal academia, it is important to choose a practitioner who is perpetually on the path of continuing education. We should expect more from an acupuncturist than mere temporary relief. When practiced at its highest level, Chinese medicine can offer a cure for most illness, however one is unlikely to find this in its modern perversion—boutique spas, wellness centers, or physical therapists. 

David’s Spanish is 90% fluent, and hence can accept most Spanish-speaking patients. He was born and raised in New York, and presently lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter, the former of whom is an Integrative Medicine Doctor at Hackensack-Meridian Health. The latter enjoys and demands nightly acupressure before bedtime and herbal medicine whenever she has a cough. In addition to studying, David finds time nearly every day to cook, listen to old hip hop, do creative writing, and Tai Chi.