Jing Fan MD(China), PhD, LAc, Dipl. OM

Dr. Jing Fan holds an MD and PhD in Orthopedics from Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine and completed his postdoctoral training, and research fellowships at Harvard Medical School. He currently serves as a full-time Acupuncturist at the Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Wellness & Preventive Medicine – Center for Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine. He is licensed to practice acupuncture and TCM in both China (Jiangsu Province) and the United States (Texas, Ohio), and is certified by the NCCAOM as an Oriental Medicine Practitioner. Additionally, he holds certifications from AOBTA as a Qigong and Tui Na practitioner.

Dr. Fan has extensive experience in clinical practice, teaching, and research in both TCM and integrative medicine. He specializes in combining acupuncture, herbal medicine, orthopedic techniques, and mind-body training to treat musculoskeletal, neurological, and metabolic bone disorders. He also employs multi-dimensional pattern differentiation and quantitative models from both traditional and modern integrative medicine to treat constitutional and multi-system dysfunction disorders. His main research interests include the nonlinear analysis of dynamic biomedical complexity through the integration of TCM and Western medicine, the role of connective tissue in chronic musculoskeletal pain, the mechanisms behind acupuncture and manual therapy, the quantitative analysis of TCM constitution, and the development of small-molecule drugs targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress pathways.