A quick re-cap on the year 2025 in the rearview, the “year-view,” if you will, otherwise “year in review” (clearly being a dad is impacting my jokes)!
A lot of business as usual in the way of business—my same schedule of 3 days a week in the office, plus one supervising in the school clinic at Pacific College, partially highlighted by our appearance on Ben Aaron’s PIX-11 News segment.
I also gladly welcomed my first ever part-time assistant, Kira Schneider, a great acupuncturist in her own right, with a private practice in Princeton, New Jersey.
This year’s continuing education was also more of the same, as Chinese medicine’s foundational text, the Shang Han Za Bing Lun, takes a lifetime to study and master. In addition to reading my nightly passages, I credit Genevieve Le Goff of California, with most of the knowledge I gained last year.
In the first week of this new year I’ve added to my repertoire, virtually lecturing 2 courses per week on Classical Chinese herbal medicine with the Virginia University of Integrative Medicine, which happens to have a New Jersey campus located just a few miles from my mom.
Speaking of which, Mom’s hangin’ in there, my wife, Dr. Jillian Cohen, just got the first ever fellowship at Hackensack Meridian Health’s Integrative Medicine department approved, and daughter Peyton has since turned 4 and 4 1/4, rapidly approaching 4 1/2, and has not been made aware that she’s about to have her second trip to Disney in two years (hopefully this time sans coronavirus). She remains infatuated with everything princesses and drawing (including occasional household furniture vandalism), and her bilingual Spanish abilities are improving, inevitably to surpass my own.
Curious to hear if anyone has any exciting news from last year and/or regarding the year to come—especially if it’s something I should be sharing on my newsletter to benefit fellow clients and friends.


