{"id":292,"date":"2015-08-31T19:12:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T02:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/\/stagingtempsite\/?p=292"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:45:51","slug":"julie-chambers-enrolls-in-doctoral-program-at-yo-san-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/julie-chambers-enrolls-in-doctoral-program-at-yo-san-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrollment in Yo San University Doctoral Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Spring 2015, Yo San University awarded two faculty scholarships to its Doctoral Program in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, and I was lucky enough to be one of the recipients. I started my studies in May and will graduate in 2017 with the degree DAOM, specialty in Longevity and Healthy Aging. I chose this specialty because of its broad application to every single person on Earth, including people with such chronic diseases as hypertension, diabetes, obesity and neurodegenerative conditions.<\/span>The program is interesting in that it provides a lot of variety in the ways to fulfill the requirements. For example, I completed 40 hours of observation and consulting at the Santa Monica Homeopathic Pharmacy, where I learned from homeopaths, naturopathic doctors and pharmacy students, and helped customers with Chinese herbs. I have attended two conferences on aging, where I learned about mind-boggling cutting-edge research presented by geneticists and biologists. I will spend some time observing with a Chinese medicine doctor whose practice is 50% oncology. And I am spending time in the Yo San University specialty clinic in Healthy Aging, treating patients and being supervised by some of the most experienced and prestigious doctors in the nation.<\/p>\n

We meet once a month for a three-day weekend of classes, and in between, we write papers, prepare case studies for presentation and read, read, read!<\/p>\n

One of the most exciting aspects of this program is the Capstone Project, which is a research study that each candidate designs based on his or her area of interest. Given my interests in herbal medicine and oncology, I am planning to research the safety of using the Chinese herb Astragalus membranaceus to treat the side effects of cancer chemotherapy, such as fatigue and nausea. I hope to show significant evidence that we can relax the current fears of herb\/drug interactions with one or more common cancer chemotherapy drugs.<\/p>\n

I will keep everyone posted about the progress of my research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Spring 2015, Yo San University awarded two faculty scholarships to its Doctoral Program in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, and I was lucky enough to be one of the recipients. I started my studies in May and will graduate in 2017 with the degree DAOM, specialty in Longevity and Healthy Aging. I chose this specialty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acupuncture","category-aging","category-chinese-herbs","category-oncology","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliechamberslac.com\/stagingtempsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}