Harmony AIM

Teaching

Professor Zhu has taught the following courses at MUIH for 15 years:

  1. Supervised Clinical Practice, AOM 790c

  2. AOM Comprehensive Exam Level Two, AOM 6exi

  3. AOM Oral Exam Level Three, AOM 7exi

  4. NCCAOM Exam Prep, AOM719

  5. Foundations of Oriental Medicine I, AOM 611

  6. Foundations of Oriental Medicine III, AOM 613

  7. Biomedical Integration with AOM I, ISci 758 I

  8. Biomedical Integration with AOM II, ISci 758 II

  9. Clinical Anatomy of Acupuncture, ISci 640

  10. Integrative Science of Acupuncture, ISci 636

  11. Physical Assessment and History Taking, ISci 652

  12. Chinese Language and Medical Classics, AOM 614

  13. Experimental Biology of Acupuncture, ISci 625

  14. Neuroscience of Acupuncture, ISci 743

  15. Research in Chinese Medicine, ISci 733

  • Publication - Books

  1. Surface Anatomy of Acupuncture.Heming Zhu, Tatyana Maltseva and Kimberlea Freeman. Xlibris Corporation, USA, 2009.

  2. The Beauty of the Garden. Mary Fredlund, Heming Zhu and Mingying Zeng. Blur Press, USA, 2023.

  3. Editor: Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion, the 4th edition. Cheng Xinnong. Foreign Language Press, Beijing, 2019.

  4. Expert reviewer: WHO International Standard Terminologies on Traditional Chinese Medicine. World Health Organization, 2022.

  5. Publication - Selected Articles

  1. Heming Zhu and Heidi Most. How to Pass the NCCAOM Exams First Time. Acupuncture Today. October 2020.

  2. Faming Zhang, Ting Zhang, Heming Zhu, Thomas J. Borody. Evolution of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Methodology and Ethics. Current Opinion Pharmacology. 2019, 49:11-16.

  3. Heming Zhu and Heidi Most. Response to Dr. Greg Goddard re: ‘‘Dry Needling Is One Type of Acupuncture’’. Medical Acupuncture. September, 2017, 19(1).

  4. Heming Zhu and Heidi Most. Response to Dommerholt and Stanborough re: ‘‘Dry Needling Is One Type of Acupuncture’’. Medical Acupuncture. 2016, 28(5):288-289.

  5. Heming Zhu and Heidi Most. Dry Needling is One Type of Acupuncture. Medical Acupuncture. 2016,28(4):184-193.

  6. Faming Zhang and Heming Zhu. We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. (a letter to editor on Chinese herbal medicine and fecal microbiota transplantation). American Journal of Gastroenterology. 2015, 110(12):1731-2.

  7. Heming Zhu. Acupoints initiate the healing process. Medical Acupuncture. 2014, Oct 1, 26(5):264-270.

  8. Heming Zhu. The Wisdom of Wellness in Chinese Medicine. Acupuncture Today, January 2012, 13(2): 32-33.

  9. Heming Zhu with Pamela Howard. The Soul of the School: Philosophy in Action. Sun and Moon, Journal of the Maryland Acupuncture Society. 2009, 20(1): 2-4.

  10. Heming Zhu with Kimberlea Freeman. The Sages Treat Pre-illness. Roots and Branches, Journal of Tai Sophia Institute. 2008; 4:2.

  11. Sichuan Xi, Heming Zhu, Theresa Geiman, Hong Xu, Anja Schmittman and Kathrin Muegge. Lsh controls Hox gene silencing during development. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2007 Sep 4;104(36):14366-71.

  12. Zhu Heming, Sichuan Xi, Theresa Geiman, Anja Schmittmman, Taiping Chen, En Li and Kathrin Muegge. Lsh is involved in de novo methylation of DNA. The EMBO Journal, 2006, Jan. 25(2):335.

  13. Heming Zhu, Janet Duerr, Helene Varoqui, James B. Rand and Jeffrey D. Erickson. Analysis of point mutants in the Caenorhabditis elegans vesicular acetylcholine transporter reveals domains involved in substrate translocation. J Biological Chemistry, 2001 Nov 9; 276(45): 41580.

  14. Heming Zhu, Changgeng Zhu and Jiandong Hao. Screening of novel epilepsy-related gene and isolation and identification of cDNAs. Journal of Tongji Medical University (English/German version), 2000, 20(1): 10.

  15. Heming Zhu, Jianben Wang. Changes of neuropeptides (NPY, VIP, CGRP) in the atrioventricular node region of the rat heart following vagotomy. Acta Anatomica Sinica. 1994; 10(4): 256.

Group of students and a woman holding books outside Maryland University in a parking lot with trees in the background.
Three people in a medical or educational setting seated at a table with laptops, notebooks, and a tissue box. A skeleton model and an anatomical whiteboard drawing of a skull are in the background.
Group of people wearing masks, gathered around a simulated patient lying on a hospital bed, in a classroom setting with a presentation screen in the background about biomedical integration with Chinese medicine.
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