Yan Bin Ma

Dr. Yan Bin Ma was born into a family of scientists. She graduated from the medical school of Tongji University in Shanghai and has extensive experience in teaching and research in the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, as well as Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University in Guangzhou. She also served as a clinical physician, including work in special clinics, the ER and as an attending resident. Her research focuses on inherited disease (chromosomes, DNA) and hematology (original stem cells). She is also a certified specialist for children’s IQ assessment.

After she became a Canadian citizen, she founded an alternative medicine clinic, focusing on autoimmune disorders. She has been a lecturing doctor in the Canada MS Association, providing her expertise from more than 15 years as a product consultant in health and nutrition supplements. She is the first Chinese-Canadian doctor to be featured in the largest newspaper in Alberta, for traditional herbal medicine practice; she was nominated for female doctor of the year on the west coast of Canada.

Her efforts in promoting Chinese medicine through mass media are well recognized by the Chinese embassy, earning her the “Active Promotion of Chinese Culture” award. She has served as commissioner in the TCM Association for many years, switching positions from deputy chairperson of professional academic commission to deputy chairperson in government administration association.

In her 35 years of Western and Chinese medicine practice, she has found the main control factors among more than 70 degenerative diseases are about intervention rather than prevention. She holds insights not only in conventional clinical Western medicine, but also in epidemiology, preventive medicine and medical nutrition science. She proposes comprehensive medical solutions that integrate Chinese and Western medicine, alternative medicine and natural therapy to achieve optimized effects. Her belief: Helping out a person with ailments is to free that person from torture of diseases.