With the approaching first anniversary of the partnership between YSU and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, plans are underway to expand clinical externship offering from one to two shifts per week. The expansion will allow for at least one additional YSU student and a YSU Clinical Faculty supervisor, Wing-Benn Deng, to participate in the integrative model engaged in the Pediatric Pain Management Unit headed by Jeffrey Gold, Ph.D. CHLA.
Equally as important with the anticipated expansion of the externship training opportunity will be the provision of many more free acupuncture treatment services for needy children. Dr. Gold’s team that includes YSU Clinical Faculty Supervisors, Brandon Horn, J.D., Ph.D., L. Ac. and Wendy Yu, has recently engaged outreach presentations with the gastro-intestinal and rheumatology units and has scheduled an additional presentation with the allergy unit at CHLA. In addition to generating new referrals to the Pediatric Pain Management Unit, these well prepared and evidence informed presentations led by Dr. Brandon Horn, also serve to promote the concept of integrative medicine.