Stephen Meeker is the Director of the Hollywood Clinic in Portland, Oregon. He specializes in the treatment of joint pain. His training at the University of Oregon Health Science Center Emergency Medicine Program and the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine has given him knowledge as well as practical application skills in both Western and Chinese medicine. Specializing in Microsystems since 1987, he has taught nationally and internationally, and takes in students and interns. Steve is currently researching movement disorder treatment utilizing Microsystems and teaching seminars nationwide for Parker College and the Electrotherapy Association. In 1996 he received the Gold Cup Award from the World Traditional Medicine Foundation in Beijing for auriculotherapy research. He is one of the founding members of the Auricular Certification Institute, and is on the Board of directors. This international group has developed a board certification proffeciency exam, holds classes in various cities [see teaching scedule]and is supprting scientific research in Auriculotherapy. Steve is also a Certified Handwriting Analyist and does private consults and teaches classes in basic easy to grasp analysis. He is working on a book about serial killer AND actors traits in handwriting.

Membership and Conference History

• ICCAAAM '99 faculty. ACI examiner
• Fellow, American Academy of Pain Management
• Presenter, 3rd World Conference of Medical Acupuncture and Natural Medicine; Edmonton, Alberta; 1995
• Vice-President, Founding Member. Oregon Society of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
• Founding Member, The Oregon Guild of Therapists, 1993
• First Conference of HIV / AIDS and Oriental Medicine
San Francisco, California, 1993
• World Conference on Auriculotherapy and Auriculomedicine
Lyon, France, 1994 (GLEM)

Teaching

On the teaching staff of Portland Community College, Institute for Health Professionals; Institute for Integrative Medicine; ETA,Tulsa,Oklahoma; and Parker College of Chiropractic, Dallas, Texas.

Publications

"The EAR Book" [Essential Auricular Reflexes] Simplified Auriculotherapy and Auriculomedicine Van Gogh Institute, 1999 "Auricular Medicine Update: Alternative and Complementary Therapies." Alternative Medicine Journal, October, 1997. "Possible New Treatment of Parkinson's by Auriculotherapy." World Congress of Medical Acupuncture, Edmonton, Alberta, 1995. "New Views on Therapy." Four episodes on "Oriental Medicine", Portland Cable. Editor, History of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the State of Oregon since 1973.