Dr. Timothy Yeh

Timothy Yeh is president of Yeh Center of Natural Medicine, Inc., and is listed as president of Yeh Herbs Manufacturing, Inc. and Natural Medicine International. He practices Oriental and Western medicine with an emphasis on natural medicine. He has more than 50 years of medical experience spanning modern and natural medicine and has treated over 500,000 patients in that time. His studies started early. From 1950 to 1958 he learned Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture in Shanghai under Dr. Jie Hwa Ding and Dr. Hwai Xuan Zhu. He studied medicine at Zhe Jiang University in China from 1956 to 1960, majored in chemistry at Shanghai Normal University from 1960 to 1965, and passed the Shanghai Natural Medicine Municipal Board Test in 1961. He received a Ph.D. in acupuncture from the University of Oriental Studies in Los Angeles in 1984, an O.M.D. from the California Acupuncture College in 1985, and an honorary D.Sc. from the Alternative Medicine Board of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Earlier roles included teaching acupuncture and natural medicine at the Shanghai Children's Hospital School of Nursing from 1962 to 1964 and working in pediatrics at Wu Yi District Hospital in Shanghai from 1972 to 1979. After 1978 he led the medical computer diagnostic department at the Second People's Hospital in Canton. He was a professor at American Global University from 2001 to 2003. He developed natural medicine computer technology in 1978, the first of its kind in the world. He chooses herbs in the Orient for his formulas, which are based on classical formulas from a Qin Dynasty royal physician. He is listed in Who's Who in California and Who's Who in the World, received a 2004 Physician Award, and is a leading pioneer of natural medicine in the United States.