Jerry M. Kantor, Lic. Ac., CCH, RSHom (NA), MMHS

Mr. Kantor has an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School, where he has been a Teaching Associate in Anaesthesiology since 1999. He is the first acupuncturist to have received staff credentials at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and is a founding father of the Integrative Medical Alliance, a broad-based coalition of complementary and alternative medicine researchers, practitioners, administrators and students, located in the Longwood Avenue Hospital area, home to several major Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals. In 1994 Jerry Kantor was appointed Academic Consultant to China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, U.S. Foreign Office.

Mr. Kantor’s discussion of Acupuncture in the Context of Pain Management has been published in the New England Journal of Pain Management. Portions of it have also been published on the Brigham and Womens’ Hospital’s Pain Management Services website. He has developed or participated in acupuncture research design in regard to hemophilia, asthma, and neck pain. A prominent commentator on the integration of alternative and conventional medicine in America, Mr. Kantor is one of the earliest members of the medical community to forcefully argue, in print, that the standard clinical research protocol should be modified with respect to holistic modalities. He has demonstrated that when Randomized Clinical Trials are not permitted to accommodate or measure global–as opposed to single effects–modalities such as acupuncture are absurdly punished for their greatest strengths. Mr. Kantor’s position has rapidly gained credence, as can be seen by academic medicine’s increasing acceptance of anecdotal and case study evidence for acupuncture effectiveness. Jerry Kantor’s Integrative Medicine Guideline for the Treatment of Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain, developed for Tapestry Health Care, where he was Clinical Director, has set the standard for similar guidelines for other medical conditions.

The author, whose original work concerning the actions and indications of homeopathic remedies has been published in the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, is the originator of Cyclical Remedy Analysis, an investigative approach providing a concise understanding of a homeopathic remedy’s underlying core ideas. He anticipates publishing original work concerning the remedy, Apis in the near future. Mr. Kantor credits an education in Western Philosophy, in particular a grounding in Phenomenology, for his ability to extract and model core themes pertaining to homeopathic remedies.

In the 1980s, Jerry Kantor was Acupuncture Director of the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Pain and Stress Relief Clinic in Jamaica Plain, MA, where he worked with Ted Kaptchuk, OMD, its Clinical Director, and renowned author of the seminal text, The Web That Has No Weaver. Mr. Kantor has been practicing acupuncture for over twenty years, is a 1981 graduate of the Nanjing College of Traditional Medicine’s Advanced Acupuncture Program for Foreign Students and; a 1978 graduate of the New England School of Acupuncture, Watertown, MA where he studied with the School’s founder, Dr. James Tin Yao So.

Mr. Kantor is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Aspen Publishers, Inc. His non-medical writings, spanning topics ranging from chess to non-profit organization tax law, have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Village Voice and other publications.

In 2001 Mr. Kantor renewed a fifteen year relationship with medical Qi Gong practice by participating in an intensive training seminar at Xiyuan Traditional Hospital in Beijing, with Prof. Lu Guanjun, prominently featured on the Bill Moyers’ “Healing and the Mind” television special. In addition to practicing and teaching Qi Gong, Mr. Kantor has practiced the Japanese martial art of Aikido, in which he holds a fourth degree black belt, for twenty-two years.

Jerry Kantor has a B.A. in Philosophy from Queens College, C.U.N.Y. and a Masters in Management of Human Services (MMHS) from Brandeis University’s Heller School. For several years he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the History of the U.S. Health Care System at Emmanuel College in Boston. He lives in Boston, MA with his wife, daughter, and their two cats.