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full-time faculty Julie Barefoot, LAc Julie, a Raleigh, NC native, graduated from Jung Tao School in 2008. She switched career paths in 2007 from a medical aesthetician to the Student Director of Jung Tao to aid future classes through their journeys in discovering Chinese Medicine. Since her graduation, she has opened acupuncture clinics in her hometown of Raleigh as well as her current residence, Mountain City, TN. She enjoys sharing her extensive knowledge of Chinese Medicine with her community through her weekly radio program titled Health Alternatives with Julie Barefoot. Her most exciting moments are utilizing her acupuncture skills to assist women with childbirth. She has currently assisted with labor and deliveries at Carolina Medical Center, Rex Hospital, UNC Women's Center, Duke and ETSU. Deborah Barham, OTR/L, LAc Deborah is a Burke County native and has resided in North Carolina her whole life. She is a NC Licensed Acupuncturist and Occupational Therapist. She obtained a B.S. in Occupational Therapy from East Carolina University and focused on working with the elderly, developmentally delayed children and clients with hand/arm injuries. She has taught as a senior therapist at Duke University Medical Center and served as an adjunct faculty member at Jung Tao School She graduated from Jung Tao and owns and operates an integrative practice. Deborah also is passionate in her research and synthesis of information on Alzheimers. In addition to her private practice, Deborah currently serves as a Clinical Director at Jung Tao School. Kim Bonsteel, LAc, LMBT, NCTMB Greg Bryson, MFA, LAc, CMT Greg Bryson began teaching as a graduate student at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he received a Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1998. For most of the next ten years he taught art as an instructor at Virginia Tech. During this time he began studying Chinese martial arts, and continues to train under Mike Denbow in the North American Tang Shou Tao Association. The martial arts training introduced him to both Western and Eastern bodywork modalities, leading to his completion of the massage program at the Blue Ridge School of Massage and Yoga in 2007 and the acupuncture program at the Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine in 2008. He currently serves as a clinical supervisor at the Jung Tao School and practices acupuncture and massage therapy at his clinic, New River Healing Arts, in Blacksburg, Virginia. D. Michael Denbow, PhD, LAc, LMBT Mike Denbow, a professor at Virginia Tech, received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Maryland, and, in 1980, his Ph.D. in physiology from North Carolina State University. He has studied martial arts and tuina as a member of the North American Tang Shou Tao Association since the late 1980’s. In 2006, he became a certified instructor for Jin Shou Tuina through the American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA®). He has been practicing tuina and massage therapy professionally for over 10 years, and graduated from Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine in 2007. Mike utilizes tuina and acupuncture as his primary modalities. Mike also teaches Anatomy and Physiology, and serves as the Academic Director. Tom Eddins, LAc Tom Eddins began his study of energetics in the field of music, completing his Batchelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in classical guitar performance at the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1999. Tom subsequently moved to the mountains of North Carolina and, enchanted by their beauty and green serenity, began to study Chinese bio-energetics through martial arts and taijiquan. Tom has worked in the field of health care since 2000, and acupuncture specifically since 2003. He graduated in the top tier of his class at Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine in 2005. Tom has since taught classes in Taijiquan both in the community and at Jung Tao. He is an NCCAOM certified, licensed acupuncturist in the state of North Carolina and currently runs a private acupuncture practice in Boone, North Carolina. Edward Elliott, LAc Edward Elliott began his career in acupuncture by studying under the tuteledge of Dr. Sean Marshall and became the first Registrar of the newly formed Jung Tao School. He was also owner and operated a local online bookstore and herbal business. He obtained a degree from Appalachian State University in Interdisciplinary Studies and also studied Graphics and Web Design at Capella University. Edward received his graduate diploma from Jung Tao in 2004, became licensed in the states of North Carolina and Virginia. He currently serves as Vice President of Operations at Jung Tao and owns and operates a private acupuncture practice with two locations. Emily Easterling Emily Easterling received a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master of Science Degree in Biological Sciences, Microbiology from Mississippi State University. She worked as a Research Assistant in the Microbiology Lab and a Research Associate in the Applied Microbiology Lab before becoming a Science Teacher for 9th grade students. She has been an associate member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society since 2003. She has also performed a variety of volunteer activities with children and as a member of an El Salvador Mission Team. Emily is a 2011 graduate of Jung Tao School and is joining the faculty to use her extensive scientfic background to teach biomedical courses. Sarah Girard, LAc Barry G. Marshall, LMBT Barry Marshall is a native to the area, born and raised in Sugar Grove. He began his martial arts training at the age of 19 with Master Rick Ward at Blue Ridge Kung Fu Arnis Academy in Boone, NC. He received a Brown Belt in Kung Fu from Master Ward in 1992, and was then awarded a Black Belt by the World Mushuquan Federation in 1993. In 1990 he began teaching taijiquan at Blue Ridge Kung Fu. Barry began studying taijiquan with Dr. Sean Marshall in 1994, and was awarded a white sash by Dr. Marshall in 1997, signifying him as an instructor of taijiquan at Jung Tao School. He completed the three year Chinese Medicine certificate program at Jung Tao School in 1998. In 2007, he was awarded his red sash from Dr. Marshall, certifying him as a senior instructor of taijiquan. Brian Moran, LAc, MA Brian Moran’s interest in Chinese medicine emerged through his lifelong study of Asian Martial Arts. He has been actively practicing martial arts since 1978 and has been a certified instructor since 1988. He is certified to teach Northern Shao-Lin Gung Fu, Yang Family Taijiquan and I-Quan Qi Gung. He is also an Inheritor of the Tai Tzu Chang Chuan Gung Fu system. He has been running Smoky Mountain Kung Fu in Western NC since 1996. Brian earned his B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Appalachian State in 1990, and his M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Oregon State University in 1996. Brian’s medical studies began in 1991 by completing his E.M.T. certification at A-B Tech in Asheville, NC. In 1992, he began studying Tui Na and Dit Da (hit/fall martial medicine) therapies. He entered the Diploma of Acupuncture program at Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine in 2001, and is now a graduate and licensed acupuncturist. Currently, he is owner of an Acupuncture Clinic and Martial Arts school in Weaverville, NC, where he holds daily classes on Qi Gung, Taijiquan and Internal Martial Arts. Lora Moyle, LAc, MHS, RT, CNMT Lora L. Moyle began her career as a registered Radiographer and Nuclear Medicine Technologist and was the first registered technologist to complete the B.S. in Radiologic Science Program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She completed a Masters in Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. She has over twenty years of experience serving as a faculty member at the Medical University of South Carolina, Vance-Granville Community College, where she was also the Chairperson of Health Education, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In addition to her experience in the educational arena, Lora has been employed as the Director of Operations for a radiologic physics consulting firm, President of a mobile mammography/health screening company, Business Manager of a health care consulting firm and a medical acupuncture network, and Associate Radiation Safety Officer at N.C. State University. Ms. Moyle graduated from Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine in 2004, and served as an instructor, Academic Director and Chairperson of the Board of Directors. She resigned from the Board to serve as the Interim President of Jung Tao. She maintains a private practice as a licensed acupuncturist. Myra Jane Ramseur, LAc, FNP Myra Jane has over forty years of experience working as a Registered Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, and Health Educator. She has worked in many settings including hospitals, clinics, student health, home health, and county health departments and jails. She has taught on the nursing faculty at AB Tech in Asheville. After graduating from Jung Tao and becoming a Licensed Acupuncturist in 2005, she opened a private practice in her home town of Lincolnton, North Carolina. Myra Jane enjoys teaching Pathophysiology. Her interests include raising vegetables, chickens and donkeys on her family farm. She also enjoys assisting her husband in performing music and magic. Abe Rummage, LAc, LMBT Abe began his study of Chinese medicine, Taiji and martial arts in 2000 with apprenticeships under Sifu Yahesh Ben Yisrael and master acupuncturist Jim Westmoreland. In 2004 Abe obtained his diploma in Massage and Bodywork Therapy from Southeastern School of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy and became board certified and state licensed in North Carolina as a massage and bodywork therapist. He continued with formal education at Jung Tao School and graduated at the top of his class in June 2008. He became North Carolina licensed and Nationally board certified in acupuncture by the NCCAOM in the same month. Abe owns and operates a private practice in North Carolina.
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