About Authors

Prof. Zhaozhi Cheng, graduated from Hubei TCM University in China, and then worked at a countryside hospital in Western Hubei province as a TCM physician. Afterwards, he had taught Neijing,diagnostics and other courses in Hubei TCM University as an instructor, professor and mentor for doctoral candidate, and chiefly wrote and published 6 personal TCM works and 77 papers. Since 2007, he has been invited and come to Canada as a TCM senior instructor. Now he teaches four TCM classical courses, TCM internal medicine, Case Study and other TCM courses in both English and Chinese in PCU College of Holistic Medicine and Tianyi Health Group in Vancouver, and also engages in TCM clinical work as a registered TCM practitioner.

Dr. Jiaxu Chen is Chair Professor, Changjiang Scholar, Director of the State-Level Subject of Chinese Medicine Diagnostics in Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (BUCM). Chair Professor & Dean of School of Chinese Medicine, Jinan University (JNU), Director of TCM Formula-Syndrome Research Center of JNU, and Recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholar in National Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

He obtained his bachelor degree from Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1988, and further obtained his master’s and Ph.D.degrees from BUCM. Dr. Chen is a specialist in traditional Chinese medicine. For many years, he has been concentrating his efforts on the research of traditional Chinese medicine, and has published more than 10 books and over 300 papers.

Being a renowned expert and academic in the field, Prof Chen has been appointed as Member of Committee of Beijing Natural Sciences Foundation, he also currently serves as Vice-Chairperson of Specialty Committee of Diagnostics of Traditional Chinese Medicine of World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS), and Vice-Chairperson of Specialty Committee of Li Shizhen Medicine of WFCMS.