1th March 2020, Launch at the House of Commons of the Scope of Acupuncture with the British Acupuncture Council: presentation on "Efficacy, comparative effectiveness & safety of acupuncture".
6th February 2020 World Health Organisation's Global Health Seminar: Complementary and Alternative Medicines in the "Biomedical World": presentation in York on "The evidence base on acupuncture for chronic pain".
20th October 2019. Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, London. The growing evidence base on the treatment of chronic pain with acupuncture.
18th October 2019. Northern College of Acupuncture Research Conference, York: Lifestyle Medicine - Promoting Sustainable Behaviour Change. Lifestyle and self-care within acupuncture treatment.
27th-29th June 2019. Society for Acupuncture Research: 2019 Research Conference. Exploring the components of acupuncture beyond needling.
11th-12th February 2019. National Institutes of Health: Translating Fundamental Science of Acupuncture into Clinical Practice. The challenges of evaluating specific and non-specific effects in clinical trials of acupuncture for chronic pain.
21st October 2018. 2nd International Symposium on Research in Acupuncture. Bologna, Italy. Towards a better understanding of why so many acupuncture trials are "negative" in contrast to results often seen in clinical practice.
18th October 2018. 6th International Symposium: Acupuncture Update: Mechanisms and Clinical Evidence, Institute for Complmentary and Integrative Medicine, University of Zurich. Acupuncture for depression.
17th March 2018. Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London. Celebrating twenty years of acupuncture research.[Link]
21st February 2018. Meeting of European Parliament Interest Group: MEPs for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Brussels, Belgium. Acupuncture for chronic musculoskeletal pain - its benefits for EU citizens.
8th October 2017. Societas Medicinae Sinensis, Tutzing, Germany. Acupuncture for chronic pain: from trials and tribulations to definitive data.
7th June 2017. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Strategy, Research and Development (CAMSTRAND), University of Southampton. Twenty years of research - an engaging learning curve
13th May 2017. Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists, Coventry. Acupuncture for chronic pain: update on the placebo question and on long-term.
28th April 2017. Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR) International Research Conference, San Francisco. Acupuncture for chronic pain: an update from the Acupuncture Triallists' Collaboration.
30th March 2017. Praktiserende Akupunktorer, Denmark. Acupuncture and evidence the base: chronic pain and long-term effects.
25th March 2017. Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London. Acupuncture for chronic pain: a new analysis of clinical effects and long-term outcome trajectories.
9th December 2016. Danish Health Agency Council on Complementary and Alterntive Medicine (SRAB), funded by the Ministry of Health, administrated by Danish Patient Safety Authority. Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen. Acupuncture and counselling for depression: emerging evidence of longer term effects.
1st December 2016. Assoziation Schweizer Aerztegesellschaften (ASA) Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress, Solothun, Switzerland. Long term benefits of acupuncture for chronic pain - what makes a difference?
19th November 2016. International Scientific Acupuncture and Meridian Symposium (iSAMS), Hong Kong. Long-term effects of acupuncture for chronic pain: results from pragmatic randomised controlled trials.
13th November 2016. 2nd United Arab Emirates International Conference on Acupuncture, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Long-term effects of acupuncture for chronic pain.
24th September 2016. Traditional Chinese Medicine Council of Ireland (TCMCI), University of Limerick, Limerick, Republic of Ireland. Acupuncture and the evidence base.
19th March 2016. Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium. Perspectives on why so many published trials of acupuncture are "negative" .
2015
24th November 2015. All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare, House of Commons, London. Acupuncture and the Evidence Base.
12th November 2015. International Research Conference, Society for Acupuncture Research, Boston. Pragmatic Trials of acupuncture: exploring longer-term benefits.
3rd October 2015. International Symposium on Research in Acupuncture, Bologna, Italy, 2015. Acupuncture for chronic pain: definitive results on treatment and placebo effects.
26th September 2015. British Acupuncture Council Annual Conference, Nottingham. Why the evidence base on acupuncture can help us build our practices. [Watch this - free webinar]
5th September 2015. International Conference on Health, Healthcare and Eco-civilisation, China Academy of Culture and London South Bank University. Longer-term outcomes associated with acupuncture for chronic neck pain: the impact of traditional Chinese medical diagnosis, treatment and lifestyle advice.
15th May 2015. AGTCM, Rothenburg TCM Congress, Germany. Acupuncture for chronic neck pain: exploring aspects of treatment that work well.
9th May 2015. Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP), Coventry, UK. Four presentations on acupuncture and the evidence base.
24th April 2015. American Academy of Medical Acupuncture (AAMA), 27th Annual Symposium, St Louis, USA. Acupuncture for chronic pain: definitive evidence on the placebo question.
21st March 2015. Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, Kings College, London. Acupuncture for chronic neck pain: long-term outcomes and what makes a difference.
9th January 2015. Norwegian Pain Congress, Oslo, Norway. Acupuncture for chronic pain: high quality evidence from the Acupuncture Triallists' Collaboration.
2014
8th December 2014. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK. Patterns of repletion and depletion in chronic neck pain.
4th December 2014. Assoziation Schweizer Aerztegesellschaften (ASA) Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress, Solothun, Switzerland. Acupuncture for chronic pain: definitive evidence on the placebo question and more.
10th October 2014. European Congress for Integrative Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia. Acupuncture And Counselling For Depression In Primary Care: A Randomised Controlled Trial
5th September 2014. Second Nordic Medical Acupuncture Congress, Oslo, Norway. Acupuncture for chronic pain: high-quality evidence and the clinical implications
1st June 2014. China Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (CAAM), Beijing, China. Acupuncture for chronic pain: compelling evidence from meta-analyses.
31st May 2014. China Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (CAAM), Beijing, China. Acupuncture, counselling and usual care for depression: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
28th May 2014. Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China. Acupuncture for chronic pain: an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised trials
10th May 2014. British Medical Acupuncture Society, Cardiff, UK. Acupuncture or counselling for depression: a randomised controlled trial.
10th May 2014. British Medical Acupuncture Society, Cardiff, UK. Acupuncture vs. other physical therapies for osteoarthritis of the knee: a network meta-analysis.
29th February 2014. Annual Acupuncture Symposium. King's College, London, UK. Acupuncture or counselling for depression: a randomised controlled trial.[Watch this]
2013
4th October 2013. Palliative Care: Lost in translation. Royal Hotel, Scarborough, UK. Joint presentation with Flavia Swan: Acupuncture and symptom management in palliative care.
1st July 2013, CAMSTRAND workshop, London, UK. Presentation title: New developments in systematic reviews: individual patient data meta-analysis and network meta-analysis.
29th June 2013, Interdisciplinary Acupuncture Symposium, Scientific Association for Medical Acupuncture in Greece (SAMAG), Athens, Greece. Presentation title: “Acupuncture and the emerging evidence base: definitive data from trials involving 18,000 patients with chronic pain.” (http://www.samag.gr/sinedriaen.html)
10th May 2013, Rothenburg TCM Kongress, Germany. Title: “Acupuncture, counselling and usual care for depression: results from a three arm trial” (www.tcm-kongress.de)
10th May 2013, Rothenburg TCM Kongress, Germany. Title: “Strategies for finding out which components of acupuncture work better or worse” (www.tcm-kongress.de)
20th April 2013. Society for Acupuncture Research. Ann Arbor, USA. Presentation title, “Acupuncture and other physical treatments for the relief of chronic pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee: network meta-analysis.” (http://www.sar2013conference.org/)
19th April 2013. Society for Acupuncture Research. Ann Arbor, USA. Symposium presentation, “Multiple Components of Acupuncture: Therapeutic Outcomes from Needling, Context and Patient-Practitioner Interactions” (http://www.sar2013conference.org/)
18th April, 2013. Society for Acupuncture Research. Ann Arbor, USA. Workshop presentation “Acupuncture Research for Clinicians and Students: Using Data to Improve Patient Care and Build a stronger Practice.” (http://www.sar2013conference.org/)
12th April 2013, International Society for Complementary Medicine
Research, Institute of Education, London. Presentation title: "Acupuncture, Counselling, and Usual GP care for depression - A randomised controlled trial to evaluate effectiveness and cost-effectiveness”. (www.iccmr2013.org)
11th April 2013, International Society for Complementary Medicine Research,
Institute of Education, London. Workshop title, “Health economics in
Complementary and Integrative Medicine.” (www.iccmr2013.org)
2nd March 2013, Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London South
Bank University. Presentation title, “Acupuncture and the 'sceptics': a dialogue
on moving forward”. (http://www.arrcsymposium.org.uk/)
2012
9th October 2012. University of Western Australia, Sydney. "Overview of the state of acupuncture research: a UK perspective."
7th October 2012. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Moving Acupuncture Research Forwards Conference. "Acupuncture and other physical treatments for the relief of chronic pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee."
6th October 2012. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Moving Acupuncture Research Forwards Conference. "Current state of the evidence on acupuncture for common chronic pain conditions."
7th July 2012. London South Bank University. "Acupuncture for Integrated Pain Management – an acupuncturists perspective."
4th July 2012. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. College of Medicine. "Acupuncture: an effective treatment for chronic pain."
14th June 2012. North East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire CLRN. Research Forum. "Acupuncture studies – current and future."
18th May 2012, Coventry University. Acupuncture for chronic pain and osteoarthritis: fresh evidence from trials and reviews.
12th May 2012. Liverpool Medical Institution. British Academy of Western Acupuncture. Liverpool. "Acupuncture and the treatment of chronic pain."
28th March 2012. Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff. "Strategies for creating a balanced view of complementary and alternative medicine on the internet."
25th February 2012 . Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium. London. "Comparing acupuncture with other physical interventions for osteoarthritis of the knee: a network meta-analysis."
24th February 2012. University of Middlesex, London. "The state of acupuncture research."
2011
1st November 2011. All Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare, Portcullis House, Westminster, London. "The state of acupuncture research".
7th October 2011. European Congress on Integrative Medicine, Charité University, Berlin. "Acupuncture for chronic pain: individual patient data meta-analysis.
3rd September 2011. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Denmark. “Research on acupuncture, the state of play and challenges facing the field.”
1st September 2011. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Denmark. “Complexity in the study of acupuncture.”
10th June 2011. The Quest for Personalised Health, University of Westminster, London. “Complexity in health-related research.”
3rd June 2011. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day. “Acupuncture Trialists’ Collaboration: acupuncture for chronic pain.”
30th March 2011. CAMSTRAND Conference Workshop, University of Southampton. “Complementary medical research in a colder climate”.
12th March 2011. Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, Goodenough College, London. “Uncertainty, paradox and doubt in acupuncture research.”
11th March 2011. Future of Integrative Medicine Symposium, Templeton College, University of Oxford. “Uncertainty, doubt and paradox in acupuncture research.”
2010
10th December 2010. Assoziation Schweizer Aerztegesellschaften (ASA) Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress, Basel, Switzerland. "Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial".
1st-3rd October 2010. Symposium of Acupuncture & Meridian Studies, Busan, South Korea. "Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial" and "Neuroimaging the effects of acupuncture and de qi"
22nd May 2010. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day. “Does de qi make a difference? An exploration of brain imaging with functional magnetic resonance imaging”
18th March 2010. Society for Acupuncture Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Three presentations: “Acupuncture under attack: how do we respond using the current evidence base?”; “Pragmatic research: acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome”; and “Neuroimaging of acupuncture using magnetoencephalography (MEG)”
2009
9th December 2009. Royal College of Physicians. Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome.
23rd September 2009. University of Leeds. An overview of acupuncture research in York: some small successes and some large challenges.
8th September 2009. International Association for the Study of Asian Medicine and the Bhutan Institute for Traditional Medicine Services. On pragmatic research to explore real world benefits.
22nd May 2009. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day: Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: a pragmatic trial to answer a real world question.
21st May 2009. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day: Acupuncture, science and building an evidence base.
14th April 2009. Integrated health: putting people first. Prince of Wales' Foundation for Integrated Medicine, King's Fund, London. Making sense of the evidence, what works and what doesn't in complementary medicine.
28th February 2009. European Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, Zurich. Acupuncture for low back pain: a pragmatic clinical evaluation.
28th February 2009. European Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, Zurich. Acupuncture research to explore real world benefits.
20th January 2009. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Zhongzhimen Hospital, Beijing. Pragmatic randomised controlled trials and research into acupuncture.
20th January 2009. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Zhongzhimen Hospital, Beijing. Acupuncture for low back pain: a pragmatic trial.
2008
2nd October 2008. STRICTA – CONSORT Consensus meeting, Freiburg, Germany. What have we learned about STRICTA? Insights from reviews and expert opinion.
22nd September 2008. Society for Acupuncture Research, Washington DC, USA. Pooled data from systematic reviews of acupuncture for chronic pain.
6th September 2008. British Acupuncture Society, Royal Holloway University, London. Acupuncture and evidence based medicine: is there cause for optimism?
2nd June 2008. Yorkshire Rheumatology Multidisciplinary Group, Wetherby, Yorkshire, UK. Acupuncture for musculoskeletal conditions, and Complementary medicine: an overview.
17th May 2008. Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists, Bedford, UK. Acupuncture for low back pain in primary care: evidence over the longer term from a randomised controlled trial.
17th May 2008. Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists, Bedford, UK. The neuroimaging of acupuncture; comparing superficial needling (Japanese style) to deep needling (Chinese style).
1st May 2008. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Congress Rothenburg, Germany. Acupuncture for low back pain.
11th April 2008. Society of Homeopaths, Leicester, UK. Research strategies for building a relevant evidence base for complementary and alternative medicine.
2007
11th November 2007, Society for Acupuncture Research, Baltimore, USA. Whole system strategies for developing the evidence without distorting the medicine.
22nd October 2007, King's Fund and Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, London. Pragmatic randomised trials: rigour with relevance.
6th October 2007. Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine, London. Chinese herbal medicine: developing evidence relevant to current practice.
6th June 2007. Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York. Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: an exploratory study.
23rd April 2007. International Association for the Study of East Asian Medicine conference "Authenticity, Best Practice and the Evidence Mosaic: The Challenge of Integrating Traditional East Asian Medicines into Western Health Care " at University of Westminster. Title: Acupuncture Research: strategies for developing the evidence without distorting the medicine.
15th January 2007. Institute of Rehabilitation, University of Hull, Hull. The effectiveness of acupuncture for back pain.
2006
16th September 2006. British Acupuncture Council Annual Conference. Acupuncture and the great placebo debate.
4th September 2006. Glasgow Cafe Scientifique. Acupuncture & neuroimaging: where East meets West.
16th June 2006, Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London. Acupuncture and neuroimaging: implications for clinical practice.
8th June 2006, Cheltenham Science Festival. Alternative Medicine - Acupuncture - How does it work? A joint presentation with Professor Kathy Sykes of University of Bristol and neuroscientist Dr Mark Lythgoe of University College London with a focus on acupuncture and its effect on the brain.
30th May 2006 Co-Sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Osher Institute and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. Invited speaker: "Neuroimaging acupuncture at LI-4 (Hegu): is superficial needling a control for deep?"
9th March 2006: Hull York Medical School Third Annual Research Conference, Hull. Invited presentation: Neuroimaging responses to acupuncture: comparing superficial and deep needling.
Pre 2006
17th Nov 2005: National Institutes of Health, Washington DC, USA. Invited poster presentation: Neuroimaging the response to acupuncture at LI-4 (Hegu): comparing superficial and deep needling.
14th Nov 2005: Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford. Invited speaker: Acupuncture and the randomised controlled trial (RCT) – developing the evidence.
12th October 2005: Inaugural Conference of the Foundation’s GP Associates, St James Palace, London. Invited speaker: Developing the evidence base for integrated medicine.
30th June 2005: Alternative & Complementary Health Research Network, Nottingham. Can individualised treatments be standardised? A consensus method to develop a treatment protocol of acupuncture trial for depression.
14th May 2005: Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London. Invited as Chair and Closing Keynote speaker. Strategies for Acupuncture Research.
4th March 2005: Wolds Primary Care Research Network, Hull. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for low back pain in primary care.
2nd December 2004: Asian Medicine, Tradition and Modernity Conference organised by the International Society for Traditional Asian Medicine, London. Invited presentation: Evidence-based acupuncture: a challenge ahead.
2nd October 2004: Society for Acupuncture Research, San Francisco. Acupuncture for tinnitus – a series of n-of-1 trials.
1st October 2004: Society for Acupuncture Research, San Francisco. Invited presentation: Standards for reporting the intervention in clinical trials of acupuncture.
25th September 2004: British Acupuncture Council, London. Invited presentation Acupuncture for Low Back Pain.
1st-2nd July 2004: Alternative & Complementary Health Research Network, Nottingham University, UK. Longer term outcomes in a trial of acupuncture for low back pain.
11th-13th June 2004: 4th International Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress, Manchester, England. Invited speaker: Patient reports on adverse events associated with acupuncture: results of a prospective national survey.
3rd June 2004: Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for depression: some current research challenges.
17th April 2004: British Medical Acupuncture Society, Spring Scientific Meeting, London, UK. Invited presentation: Patient reports on adverse events associated with acupuncture.
31st March 2004: Prince of Wales’s Foundation For Integrated Health, Stafford, UK. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for depression: first steps in a clinical evaluation.
6th March 2004: 8th Acupuncture Research Symposium, London, UK. Is acupuncture cost-effective for low back pain? Results from a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
21st November 2003: 10th Annual Symposium on Complementary Health Care, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK. Acupuncture safety: what patients report on adverse events.
16th November 2003: Society of Acupuncture Research, Boston, USA. Patients reports of adverse events associated with acupuncture. A poster presentation.
15th November 2003: Society of Acupuncture Research, Boston, USA. Acupuncture for low back pain: results from a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
14th September 2003: World Federation of Acupuncture Societies. Oslo, Norway. Acupuncture for low back pain: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
13th September 2003: World Federation of Acupuncture Societies. Oslo, Norway. Invited presentation Acupuncture safety: what patients report on adverse events. (Awarded Joint First Prize for presentation.)
6th February 2020 World Health Organisation's Global Health Seminar: Complementary and Alternative Medicines in the "Biomedical World": presentation in York on "The evidence base on acupuncture for chronic pain".
20th October 2019. Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, London. The growing evidence base on the treatment of chronic pain with acupuncture.
18th October 2019. Northern College of Acupuncture Research Conference, York: Lifestyle Medicine - Promoting Sustainable Behaviour Change. Lifestyle and self-care within acupuncture treatment.
27th-29th June 2019. Society for Acupuncture Research: 2019 Research Conference. Exploring the components of acupuncture beyond needling.
11th-12th February 2019. National Institutes of Health: Translating Fundamental Science of Acupuncture into Clinical Practice. The challenges of evaluating specific and non-specific effects in clinical trials of acupuncture for chronic pain.
21st October 2018. 2nd International Symposium on Research in Acupuncture. Bologna, Italy. Towards a better understanding of why so many acupuncture trials are "negative" in contrast to results often seen in clinical practice.
18th October 2018. 6th International Symposium: Acupuncture Update: Mechanisms and Clinical Evidence, Institute for Complmentary and Integrative Medicine, University of Zurich. Acupuncture for depression.
17th March 2018. Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London. Celebrating twenty years of acupuncture research.[Link]
21st February 2018. Meeting of European Parliament Interest Group: MEPs for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Brussels, Belgium. Acupuncture for chronic musculoskeletal pain - its benefits for EU citizens.
8th October 2017. Societas Medicinae Sinensis, Tutzing, Germany. Acupuncture for chronic pain: from trials and tribulations to definitive data.
7th June 2017. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Strategy, Research and Development (CAMSTRAND), University of Southampton. Twenty years of research - an engaging learning curve
13th May 2017. Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists, Coventry. Acupuncture for chronic pain: update on the placebo question and on long-term.
28th April 2017. Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR) International Research Conference, San Francisco. Acupuncture for chronic pain: an update from the Acupuncture Triallists' Collaboration.
30th March 2017. Praktiserende Akupunktorer, Denmark. Acupuncture and evidence the base: chronic pain and long-term effects.
25th March 2017. Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London. Acupuncture for chronic pain: a new analysis of clinical effects and long-term outcome trajectories.
9th December 2016. Danish Health Agency Council on Complementary and Alterntive Medicine (SRAB), funded by the Ministry of Health, administrated by Danish Patient Safety Authority. Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen. Acupuncture and counselling for depression: emerging evidence of longer term effects.
1st December 2016. Assoziation Schweizer Aerztegesellschaften (ASA) Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress, Solothun, Switzerland. Long term benefits of acupuncture for chronic pain - what makes a difference?
19th November 2016. International Scientific Acupuncture and Meridian Symposium (iSAMS), Hong Kong. Long-term effects of acupuncture for chronic pain: results from pragmatic randomised controlled trials.
13th November 2016. 2nd United Arab Emirates International Conference on Acupuncture, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Long-term effects of acupuncture for chronic pain.
24th September 2016. Traditional Chinese Medicine Council of Ireland (TCMCI), University of Limerick, Limerick, Republic of Ireland. Acupuncture and the evidence base.
19th March 2016. Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium. Perspectives on why so many published trials of acupuncture are "negative" .
2015
24th November 2015. All-Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare, House of Commons, London. Acupuncture and the Evidence Base.
12th November 2015. International Research Conference, Society for Acupuncture Research, Boston. Pragmatic Trials of acupuncture: exploring longer-term benefits.
3rd October 2015. International Symposium on Research in Acupuncture, Bologna, Italy, 2015. Acupuncture for chronic pain: definitive results on treatment and placebo effects.
26th September 2015. British Acupuncture Council Annual Conference, Nottingham. Why the evidence base on acupuncture can help us build our practices. [Watch this - free webinar]
5th September 2015. International Conference on Health, Healthcare and Eco-civilisation, China Academy of Culture and London South Bank University. Longer-term outcomes associated with acupuncture for chronic neck pain: the impact of traditional Chinese medical diagnosis, treatment and lifestyle advice.
15th May 2015. AGTCM, Rothenburg TCM Congress, Germany. Acupuncture for chronic neck pain: exploring aspects of treatment that work well.
9th May 2015. Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP), Coventry, UK. Four presentations on acupuncture and the evidence base.
24th April 2015. American Academy of Medical Acupuncture (AAMA), 27th Annual Symposium, St Louis, USA. Acupuncture for chronic pain: definitive evidence on the placebo question.
21st March 2015. Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, Kings College, London. Acupuncture for chronic neck pain: long-term outcomes and what makes a difference.
9th January 2015. Norwegian Pain Congress, Oslo, Norway. Acupuncture for chronic pain: high quality evidence from the Acupuncture Triallists' Collaboration.
2014
8th December 2014. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK. Patterns of repletion and depletion in chronic neck pain.
4th December 2014. Assoziation Schweizer Aerztegesellschaften (ASA) Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress, Solothun, Switzerland. Acupuncture for chronic pain: definitive evidence on the placebo question and more.
10th October 2014. European Congress for Integrative Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia. Acupuncture And Counselling For Depression In Primary Care: A Randomised Controlled Trial
5th September 2014. Second Nordic Medical Acupuncture Congress, Oslo, Norway. Acupuncture for chronic pain: high-quality evidence and the clinical implications
1st June 2014. China Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (CAAM), Beijing, China. Acupuncture for chronic pain: compelling evidence from meta-analyses.
31st May 2014. China Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (CAAM), Beijing, China. Acupuncture, counselling and usual care for depression: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
28th May 2014. Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China. Acupuncture for chronic pain: an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised trials
10th May 2014. British Medical Acupuncture Society, Cardiff, UK. Acupuncture or counselling for depression: a randomised controlled trial.
10th May 2014. British Medical Acupuncture Society, Cardiff, UK. Acupuncture vs. other physical therapies for osteoarthritis of the knee: a network meta-analysis.
29th February 2014. Annual Acupuncture Symposium. King's College, London, UK. Acupuncture or counselling for depression: a randomised controlled trial.[Watch this]
2013
4th October 2013. Palliative Care: Lost in translation. Royal Hotel, Scarborough, UK. Joint presentation with Flavia Swan: Acupuncture and symptom management in palliative care.
1st July 2013, CAMSTRAND workshop, London, UK. Presentation title: New developments in systematic reviews: individual patient data meta-analysis and network meta-analysis.
29th June 2013, Interdisciplinary Acupuncture Symposium, Scientific Association for Medical Acupuncture in Greece (SAMAG), Athens, Greece. Presentation title: “Acupuncture and the emerging evidence base: definitive data from trials involving 18,000 patients with chronic pain.” (http://www.samag.gr/sinedriaen.html)
10th May 2013, Rothenburg TCM Kongress, Germany. Title: “Acupuncture, counselling and usual care for depression: results from a three arm trial” (www.tcm-kongress.de)
10th May 2013, Rothenburg TCM Kongress, Germany. Title: “Strategies for finding out which components of acupuncture work better or worse” (www.tcm-kongress.de)
20th April 2013. Society for Acupuncture Research. Ann Arbor, USA. Presentation title, “Acupuncture and other physical treatments for the relief of chronic pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee: network meta-analysis.” (http://www.sar2013conference.org/)
19th April 2013. Society for Acupuncture Research. Ann Arbor, USA. Symposium presentation, “Multiple Components of Acupuncture: Therapeutic Outcomes from Needling, Context and Patient-Practitioner Interactions” (http://www.sar2013conference.org/)
18th April, 2013. Society for Acupuncture Research. Ann Arbor, USA. Workshop presentation “Acupuncture Research for Clinicians and Students: Using Data to Improve Patient Care and Build a stronger Practice.” (http://www.sar2013conference.org/)
12th April 2013, International Society for Complementary Medicine
Research, Institute of Education, London. Presentation title: "Acupuncture, Counselling, and Usual GP care for depression - A randomised controlled trial to evaluate effectiveness and cost-effectiveness”. (www.iccmr2013.org)
11th April 2013, International Society for Complementary Medicine Research,
Institute of Education, London. Workshop title, “Health economics in
Complementary and Integrative Medicine.” (www.iccmr2013.org)
2nd March 2013, Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London South
Bank University. Presentation title, “Acupuncture and the 'sceptics': a dialogue
on moving forward”. (http://www.arrcsymposium.org.uk/)
2012
9th October 2012. University of Western Australia, Sydney. "Overview of the state of acupuncture research: a UK perspective."
7th October 2012. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Moving Acupuncture Research Forwards Conference. "Acupuncture and other physical treatments for the relief of chronic pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee."
6th October 2012. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Moving Acupuncture Research Forwards Conference. "Current state of the evidence on acupuncture for common chronic pain conditions."
7th July 2012. London South Bank University. "Acupuncture for Integrated Pain Management – an acupuncturists perspective."
4th July 2012. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. College of Medicine. "Acupuncture: an effective treatment for chronic pain."
14th June 2012. North East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire CLRN. Research Forum. "Acupuncture studies – current and future."
18th May 2012, Coventry University. Acupuncture for chronic pain and osteoarthritis: fresh evidence from trials and reviews.
12th May 2012. Liverpool Medical Institution. British Academy of Western Acupuncture. Liverpool. "Acupuncture and the treatment of chronic pain."
28th March 2012. Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff. "Strategies for creating a balanced view of complementary and alternative medicine on the internet."
25th February 2012 . Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium. London. "Comparing acupuncture with other physical interventions for osteoarthritis of the knee: a network meta-analysis."
24th February 2012. University of Middlesex, London. "The state of acupuncture research."
2011
1st November 2011. All Party Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare, Portcullis House, Westminster, London. "The state of acupuncture research".
7th October 2011. European Congress on Integrative Medicine, Charité University, Berlin. "Acupuncture for chronic pain: individual patient data meta-analysis.
3rd September 2011. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Denmark. “Research on acupuncture, the state of play and challenges facing the field.”
1st September 2011. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Denmark. “Complexity in the study of acupuncture.”
10th June 2011. The Quest for Personalised Health, University of Westminster, London. “Complexity in health-related research.”
3rd June 2011. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day. “Acupuncture Trialists’ Collaboration: acupuncture for chronic pain.”
30th March 2011. CAMSTRAND Conference Workshop, University of Southampton. “Complementary medical research in a colder climate”.
12th March 2011. Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, Goodenough College, London. “Uncertainty, paradox and doubt in acupuncture research.”
11th March 2011. Future of Integrative Medicine Symposium, Templeton College, University of Oxford. “Uncertainty, doubt and paradox in acupuncture research.”
2010
10th December 2010. Assoziation Schweizer Aerztegesellschaften (ASA) Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress, Basel, Switzerland. "Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial".
1st-3rd October 2010. Symposium of Acupuncture & Meridian Studies, Busan, South Korea. "Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial" and "Neuroimaging the effects of acupuncture and de qi"
22nd May 2010. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day. “Does de qi make a difference? An exploration of brain imaging with functional magnetic resonance imaging”
18th March 2010. Society for Acupuncture Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Three presentations: “Acupuncture under attack: how do we respond using the current evidence base?”; “Pragmatic research: acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome”; and “Neuroimaging of acupuncture using magnetoencephalography (MEG)”
2009
9th December 2009. Royal College of Physicians. Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome.
23rd September 2009. University of Leeds. An overview of acupuncture research in York: some small successes and some large challenges.
8th September 2009. International Association for the Study of Asian Medicine and the Bhutan Institute for Traditional Medicine Services. On pragmatic research to explore real world benefits.
22nd May 2009. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day: Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: a pragmatic trial to answer a real world question.
21st May 2009. Traditional Chinese Medicine Kongress, Rothenburg, Germany. TCM Science Day: Acupuncture, science and building an evidence base.
14th April 2009. Integrated health: putting people first. Prince of Wales' Foundation for Integrated Medicine, King's Fund, London. Making sense of the evidence, what works and what doesn't in complementary medicine.
28th February 2009. European Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, Zurich. Acupuncture for low back pain: a pragmatic clinical evaluation.
28th February 2009. European Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, Zurich. Acupuncture research to explore real world benefits.
20th January 2009. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Zhongzhimen Hospital, Beijing. Pragmatic randomised controlled trials and research into acupuncture.
20th January 2009. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Zhongzhimen Hospital, Beijing. Acupuncture for low back pain: a pragmatic trial.
2008
2nd October 2008. STRICTA – CONSORT Consensus meeting, Freiburg, Germany. What have we learned about STRICTA? Insights from reviews and expert opinion.
22nd September 2008. Society for Acupuncture Research, Washington DC, USA. Pooled data from systematic reviews of acupuncture for chronic pain.
6th September 2008. British Acupuncture Society, Royal Holloway University, London. Acupuncture and evidence based medicine: is there cause for optimism?
2nd June 2008. Yorkshire Rheumatology Multidisciplinary Group, Wetherby, Yorkshire, UK. Acupuncture for musculoskeletal conditions, and Complementary medicine: an overview.
17th May 2008. Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists, Bedford, UK. Acupuncture for low back pain in primary care: evidence over the longer term from a randomised controlled trial.
17th May 2008. Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists, Bedford, UK. The neuroimaging of acupuncture; comparing superficial needling (Japanese style) to deep needling (Chinese style).
1st May 2008. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Congress Rothenburg, Germany. Acupuncture for low back pain.
11th April 2008. Society of Homeopaths, Leicester, UK. Research strategies for building a relevant evidence base for complementary and alternative medicine.
2007
11th November 2007, Society for Acupuncture Research, Baltimore, USA. Whole system strategies for developing the evidence without distorting the medicine.
22nd October 2007, King's Fund and Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, London. Pragmatic randomised trials: rigour with relevance.
6th October 2007. Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine, London. Chinese herbal medicine: developing evidence relevant to current practice.
6th June 2007. Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York. Acupuncture for irritable bowel syndrome: an exploratory study.
23rd April 2007. International Association for the Study of East Asian Medicine conference "Authenticity, Best Practice and the Evidence Mosaic: The Challenge of Integrating Traditional East Asian Medicines into Western Health Care " at University of Westminster. Title: Acupuncture Research: strategies for developing the evidence without distorting the medicine.
15th January 2007. Institute of Rehabilitation, University of Hull, Hull. The effectiveness of acupuncture for back pain.
2006
16th September 2006. British Acupuncture Council Annual Conference. Acupuncture and the great placebo debate.
4th September 2006. Glasgow Cafe Scientifique. Acupuncture & neuroimaging: where East meets West.
16th June 2006, Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London. Acupuncture and neuroimaging: implications for clinical practice.
8th June 2006, Cheltenham Science Festival. Alternative Medicine - Acupuncture - How does it work? A joint presentation with Professor Kathy Sykes of University of Bristol and neuroscientist Dr Mark Lythgoe of University College London with a focus on acupuncture and its effect on the brain.
30th May 2006 Co-Sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Osher Institute and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. Invited speaker: "Neuroimaging acupuncture at LI-4 (Hegu): is superficial needling a control for deep?"
9th March 2006: Hull York Medical School Third Annual Research Conference, Hull. Invited presentation: Neuroimaging responses to acupuncture: comparing superficial and deep needling.
Pre 2006
17th Nov 2005: National Institutes of Health, Washington DC, USA. Invited poster presentation: Neuroimaging the response to acupuncture at LI-4 (Hegu): comparing superficial and deep needling.
14th Nov 2005: Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford. Invited speaker: Acupuncture and the randomised controlled trial (RCT) – developing the evidence.
12th October 2005: Inaugural Conference of the Foundation’s GP Associates, St James Palace, London. Invited speaker: Developing the evidence base for integrated medicine.
30th June 2005: Alternative & Complementary Health Research Network, Nottingham. Can individualised treatments be standardised? A consensus method to develop a treatment protocol of acupuncture trial for depression.
14th May 2005: Annual Acupuncture Research Symposium, London. Invited as Chair and Closing Keynote speaker. Strategies for Acupuncture Research.
4th March 2005: Wolds Primary Care Research Network, Hull. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for low back pain in primary care.
2nd December 2004: Asian Medicine, Tradition and Modernity Conference organised by the International Society for Traditional Asian Medicine, London. Invited presentation: Evidence-based acupuncture: a challenge ahead.
2nd October 2004: Society for Acupuncture Research, San Francisco. Acupuncture for tinnitus – a series of n-of-1 trials.
1st October 2004: Society for Acupuncture Research, San Francisco. Invited presentation: Standards for reporting the intervention in clinical trials of acupuncture.
25th September 2004: British Acupuncture Council, London. Invited presentation Acupuncture for Low Back Pain.
1st-2nd July 2004: Alternative & Complementary Health Research Network, Nottingham University, UK. Longer term outcomes in a trial of acupuncture for low back pain.
11th-13th June 2004: 4th International Traditional Chinese Medicine Congress, Manchester, England. Invited speaker: Patient reports on adverse events associated with acupuncture: results of a prospective national survey.
3rd June 2004: Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for depression: some current research challenges.
17th April 2004: British Medical Acupuncture Society, Spring Scientific Meeting, London, UK. Invited presentation: Patient reports on adverse events associated with acupuncture.
31st March 2004: Prince of Wales’s Foundation For Integrated Health, Stafford, UK. Invited presentation: Acupuncture for depression: first steps in a clinical evaluation.
6th March 2004: 8th Acupuncture Research Symposium, London, UK. Is acupuncture cost-effective for low back pain? Results from a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
21st November 2003: 10th Annual Symposium on Complementary Health Care, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK. Acupuncture safety: what patients report on adverse events.
16th November 2003: Society of Acupuncture Research, Boston, USA. Patients reports of adverse events associated with acupuncture. A poster presentation.
15th November 2003: Society of Acupuncture Research, Boston, USA. Acupuncture for low back pain: results from a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
14th September 2003: World Federation of Acupuncture Societies. Oslo, Norway. Acupuncture for low back pain: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.
13th September 2003: World Federation of Acupuncture Societies. Oslo, Norway. Invited presentation Acupuncture safety: what patients report on adverse events. (Awarded Joint First Prize for presentation.)
