SAR-CAAM International Symposium of Acupuncture Research (May 30 - June 1, 2014 in Beijing, China) 
Join us in Beijing, China for SAR’s 2014 conference, in coordination with the China Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (CAAM) (May 30-June 1, 2014).  The theme is “Impact of Acupuncture Research on 21^st Century Global Heath Care,” which will extend the theme of SAR’s recent conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan with additional content added by CAAM representative speakers.  We received more than 300 abstracts, from which we selected 16 oral and 300+ poster presentations.  Learn more and register now: Registration Information. 

Save the Date for SAR’S 2015 Conference: November 12-14, 2015 (Boston, MA, USA)
SAR will participate in a joint 1-day meeting with the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) and Fascia in coordination with SAR’s 2015 conference to be held November 12-14, 2015 in Boston, MA.  SAR’s main conference will be held Thursday and Friday, November 12 & 13, and the joint conference day will be Saturday, November 14, 2015.  Mark your calendars, and we hope you will plan to join us for this exciting event!

WFAS Houston 2014 Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine Conference (October 31 – November 2, 2014 in Houston, TX, USA)

The WFAS Houston 2014 World Conference on Acupuncture will offer a platform for Eastern medicine to meet with Western medicine by adding an integrative medicine theme to the traditional acupuncture conference. Speakers include: Prof. ZHANG Boli, President, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Prof. LIU Baoyan, President, World Federation of Acupuncture-Moxibustion Societies; Dr. Lorenzo COHEN, Director of the Integrative Medicine Program, MD Anderson Cancer Center; and special guest Dr. Andrew WEIL, Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona.   For details about the event, visit wfas2014.acaom.edu.  Call for Abstracts -- Deadline for abstract submissions is May 15, 2014: http://wfas2014.acaom.edu/abstract-submissions/.   Early registration rate ends April 25, 2014.  For questions, email wfas2014@acaom.edu. 

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SAR’s January 2012 Think Tank
In an effort to synthesize and harness the momentum from our 2010 conference, the SAR Board of Directors met on January 19-22, 2012 at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA to draft a White Paper focusing on the comparative use of electrical and manual acupuncture within the continuum of basic science mechanisms, clinical research, and practitioner usage. This effort built on our previous White Paper conference, which culminated in the publication “Paradoxes in acupuncture research: strategies for moving forward,” published in 2011 (Langevin et al, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011).   Read more about SAR's January 2012 Think Tank here.