Shirfu Jeffrey Pang Zhen-neng

Jeffrey Pang Zhen-Neng, Professor, L.Ac., M.D. (China)

Department Chair, TCM Theory and Herbology Jeffrey Pang began his medical education as a child.

Growing up as a member of a distinguished medical family of South China, he was privately educated to join a lineage of traditional Chinese doctors spanning several generations of his family.

Later, as a young man, he received his M.D. degree (trained in both Western medicine and TCM) from the Zhong Shan Medical College located in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China in 1968.

After a short stay in Hong Kong he emigrated to the U.S. and became a Licensed Acupuncturist (California) in 1984. His experience includes ten years' clinical practice in Guangzhou and Hong Kong hospitals and 25 years of private practice.

A principal member of the Five Branches' faculty since its inception in 1984, he leads the review and development of Five Branches' TCM curriculum as Theory and Herbology Department Head.

Currently, he teaches at the Institute and maintains a private practice in San Jose. He also is a contract acupuncturist with Kaiser Hospital, Santa Teresa Pain Management Center. His areas of specialization include joint pain, visual disturbances, dermatological diseases and immune system disorders.

He balances his full-time TCM career with taiji exercises, camping in Yosemite, swimming and planting fruit trees from cuttings given as gifts by his students.

Jeffrey teaches in the Departments of TCM Herbology, TCM Clinical Medicine and Clinical Training.