2025 Conference

SAR International Research Conference: April 3-6, 2025 Newport Beach, CA USA

Cultivating Interconnections of Acupuncture and Traditional East Asian Medicine Research


CONFERENCE PROGRAM

This Conference Program is subject to change.

              THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2025 
8am - 10am

Workshop 1:

Topological Atlas and Repository for Acupoint research (TARA)

10am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 12pm Special Interest Group Meetings
12pm - 1:15pm Lunch on Your Own
1:15pm - 1:45pm Break / Network with Exhibitors  
1:45pm - 2pm Welcome
2pm - 3pm

Keynote Presentation: Dr. Luis Ulloa, Duke University

3pm - 3:30pm

Junior Researcher Data Blitz

3:30pm - 4:30pm

Junior Researcher Panel: Emerging Pathways in Science: Why Do This Research?

4:30pm - 5pm

Break / Network with Exhibitors 

5pm - 6:30pm

Main Symposium 1:

Implementation of Complementary Health Approaches into Health Care

6:30pm - 8pm

Poster Reception A  / Network with Exhibitors

                   FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025 
7am - 8am

Mentoring Session w/ Breakfast

8am - 9am

Keynote Presentation: Dr. Shaista Malik, University of California at Irvine

9am - 10:30am

Main Symposium 2:

Improving Health Equity in Chronic Diseases Through TEAM Research and Clinical Care
10:30am - 11am Break / Network with Exhibitors  
11am - 12:30pm

Member Symposium 1

(TBD)

Member Symposium 2

(TBD)

Member Symposium 3

(TBD)

12:30pm - 2pm Lunch on your own  
2pm - 3:30pm

Oral Presentations:

Clinical Research


 

Oral Presentations:

Basic Science

 
3:30pm - 4pm Break / Network with Exhibitors 
4pm - 5pm Global Ambassadors Symposium
5pm - 6:30pm

Poster Reception B / Network with Exhibitors

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Break

7:30pm - 9pm

Gala Dinner and Dancing

(Advance ticket purchase required)

               SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2025 
7am - 8am Mentoring Session w/ Breakfast
 8am - 9am Keynote Presentation: Dr. Xiu-Men Li, New York Medical College
 9am - 9:15am Break
 9:15am - 10:45am

Member Symposium 4

(TBD)

Member Symposium 5

(TBD)

 

Member Symposium 6

(TBD)

10:45am - 11am
Break
 11am - 12:30pm

Member Symposium 7

(TBD)

 

Member Symposium 8

(TBD)

 

Member Symposium 9

(TBD)

 

12:30pm - 2pm

Lunch on your own

2pm - 3pm

Oral Presentations:

Clinical Research

Oral Presentations:

Basic Science

 
 3pm - 3:30pm Break / Network with Exhibitors   
3:30pm - 5pm

Main Symposium 3:

Acupuncture for Chronic Pain: From Lab to Clinic and Society
 
5pm - 6pm

Panel Discussion:

Role of TEAM Research in the 12st Century

 6pm - 6:30pm Awards Ceremony / Closing Remarks   
                SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2025 
 8am - 10am

Workshop 2

(TBD)

 

 Workshop 3

(TBD)

 

 Workshop 4

(TBD)

 10am - 10:15am Break   
 10:15am - 12:15pm

Workshop 5

(TBD)

 

 Workshop 6

(TBD)

 

 Workshop 7

(TBD)