Bom in Ningbo in China's Zhejiang

Province, in 1924, Professor Xie

Zhufan is a 1946 graduate of the Bei-

jing University Medical College. In

1956 he completed the first ever special

training course for teachers in acupunc-

ture held by the Ministry of Public

Health. For more than forty years he

has been working in the First Teaching

Hospital of the Beijing Medical Univer-

sity (formerly the Beijing Medical Col-

lege), and since the 1950s has been

engaged in clinical and experimental

studies on the integration of traditional

Chinese medicine with Western medi-

cine, concentrating for the most part on

intemal medicine. He has practised and

taught both modem Western medicine

and traditional Chinese medicine and

has conducted several training courses

on traditional Chinese medicine both

at home and abroad. A three-time ap-

pointee as WHO consultant on tradi-

tional medicine in 1985, 1986 and 1990,

he has worked in the WHO Regional

Office for the Western Pacific.

Owing to his particular professional ex-

perience, he knows well the difficulties

that most Occidentals encounter when

they are leaming traditional Chinese

medicine. He has published a great

variety of scientific papers and books,

among which his Dictionary of Tradi-

tional Medlclne has been most particu-

larly well received by his readers. At

present he holds the following profes-

sional positions: Professor of Medicine,

Director of the Institute for the Integra-

tion of Traditional and Modem Med-

icine, Beijing Medical University;

Chairman of the Committee of Intema-

tional Academic Exchange, Chinese As-

sociation for thc Integration of Trad-

itional and Westem Medicine; and

Vice-Chairman, Beijing Association for

the Integration of Traditional and

Westem Medicine.

Bom in China's Fujian Province, in

July 1930, Professor Liao Jiazhen

graduated from the Shanxi Medical

College in 1955 and completed the

Traditional Chinese Medicine Course

conducted by the Ministry of Public

Health, in 1958. For more than thirty

years he has been engaged in practice,

teaching and research related to the in-

tegration of traditional Chinese and

Western medicine. His research has

been focussed on clinical and pharma-

cological studies on the prevention and

treatment of coronary heart disease

using modem scientific methodology to

build on the basis of the traditional

theory of correlation between qi and

blood. He has published more than 90

academic papers, and has nine times

been awarded prizes for his scientific

achievements. His present posts are

Professor of Internal Medicine, Beijing

College of Traditional Chinese Medi-

cine; Vice-Chairman, Chinese Associa-

tion for the Integration of Traditional

Chinese and Western Medicine; Mem-

ber of the Appraisal Group on the In-

tegration of Traditional Chinese and

Western Medicine, Committee of Aca-

demic Degrees, the State Council of

the People's Republic of China; Depu-

ty Editor-in-Chief, The Pharmacologi-

cal and Clinical Journal of Chinese

Medicine; and Member of the Editorial

Board of The Chinese Journal of Inte-

grated Traditlonal and Western Medi-

clne.