Dr. Arthur Yin Fan (Fan Ying),is a leading specialist in Acupuncture and Chinese herbology, and has two decades of clinical experience in both Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western medicine. In China, he was awarded an M.D. degree in TCM and a Ph.D. in Chinese Internal Medicine. He completed a years training in the Western medicine diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders (problems of the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and muscles) as well as a six-year medical residency combining TCM and Western internal medicine.

An evaluator of the Medical Science Research Grant Applications for NIH and the Singapore national government, Dr. Fan is currently a consultant for the Integrative Medicine program at the University of Maryland medical school. He has also conducted CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) research for the Georgetown University Medical School's program in nutrition and herbology.

Practicing in the Washington, D.C.-Virginia area since 2002, Dr. Fan employs TCM as Alternative or complementary treatment for patients with pain, neurological, endocrinological, immunological, and inflammatory disorders. He has extensive experience in helping patients with pain, nausea, stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, tics (Tourette's Syndrome), Dystonia (such as Meige's Syndrome), Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), depression, arthritis and cancer. He is one of very few doctors who has both PhD (in TCM clinical specialty) and MD background(trained in China, in both Chinese and conventional medicine) and currently practices in USA.

Dr. Fan holds the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) certificate in Oriental Medicine, which comprises of Acupuncture, Chinese Herbology, and Asian Bodywork.

Dr. Fan's clinical practice is continually enhanced by his evidence-based research in TCM. In China he conducted research in his medical specialty areas under grants from the Chinese Nature Science Foundation. In the United States he has been an active scientific researcher in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) by means of grants through the National Institute of Health (NIH). If you are interested in his resaerch, you may read more in PubMed.gov database

As an internationally noted TCM research scholar, he is also a CAM reviewing expert for several well-known medical publication houses including Elsevier and World Scientific. The recipient of several important awards from the Chinese government, Dr. Fan has been the subject of coverage by the international news agency Reuters Health.

Dr. Fan welcomes patients to visit his office in the McLean-Vienna, Virginia area, a suburb of Washington, D.C.