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Jerrry M. Kantor, Lic. Ac., MMHS
Jerry M. Kantor, Lic. Ac., MMHS is currently the Executive
Director of the News England School of Whole Health
Education, located in Wellesley. He teaches the School’s
homeopathy courses at classes held at the New England
Medical Center. Mr. Kantor is a former Director of Complementary
Clinical Services for the Wellesley Center for Progressive
Health, the single largest organized provider of complementary
and alternative medicine in United States. He has an
extensive practice in acupuncture and homeopathy in
Wellesley, MA where he sees patients privately and at
the Wellesley Center for Progressive Health. His clinical
interests include pediatrics, mental illness, oncology,
and infertility.
Mr. Kantor is the only acupuncturist-homeopath with
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 also the 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.
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