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. He earned his Masters degree in 2013, and has been in private practice since. His continuing education included a cumulative 3 years of voluntary residencies under 2 different mentors, plus consecutive years of 8-month, virtual workshops under Dr. Suzanne Robidoux in Beijing. He is a contributing writer to Acupuncture Today and his own BLOG, and a perpetual student of internal medicine. 

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 probably 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 personal experience has 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 allow him to help them reclaim their power, as he did his own.

Because of the complexity of Chinese medicine and the limited basics of our formal education, 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 from stress or pain. 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 at boutique spas or wellness centers with memberships. 

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 South Orange, NJ 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 after books before bedtime. In addition to studying his craft, David finds time every day to cook, listen to old hip hop, and do some creative writing.