full-time faculty

D. Michael Denbow, PhD

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 six years, and graduated from Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine in 2007. After obtaining his acupuncture license, he will continue to emphasize tuina and acupuncture as his primary modalities.

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.

Barry G. Marshall

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.

Abbie Mercurio, LAc

Abbie Mercurio, LAc graduated from the Academy of Five Element Acupuncture in Hallandale, FL, where she received her Masters in Acupuncture Degree. She maintained an active practice in Florida as an Acupuncture Physician and Doctor of Oriental Medicine. Recently she has relocated to North Carolina and currently practices in Charlotte. In addition to acupuncture, Abbie incorporates Chinese herbal medicine, CranioSacral Therapy, Manual Lymph Drainage and Movement Therapy into her practice. She has been welcomed as a faculty member at Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine where she has taught Professional Skills and currently supervises the student clinic. Abbie’s professional affiliations include Diplomate in Acupuncture, NCCAOM, NCAAOM, AMTA and NCBTMB.

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 Kung Fu, Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan and I-Chuan Chi Kung. He is also an Inheritor of the Tai Tzu Chang Chuan Kung 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 Chi Kung, Tai Chi Chuan and Internal Martial Arts.

Jade Pierce, LAc

Jade Pierce received her Master’s degree in Acupuncture from the Traditional Acupuncture Institute of Columbia, MD in 1999. She has operated a private practice since then, as well as working with several groups practicing integrative medicine. Currently, she is an instructor in the Jung Tao student clinic. Her teaching experience also includes teaching workshops in herbal medicine, acupressure and Qi Gong. She also taught Oriental medical theory and acupressure as faculty at the Body Therapy Institute in Siler City. Her practice of medicine emphasizes the Buddhist philosophy of compassion & mindfulness, client-practitioner rapport and the poetry of the ancient art of Asian healing traditions.

Andrew Prescott, LAc

Andrew Prescott has been practicing Acupuncture since 1977. He qualified as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse in 1975 at Glenside and Barrow Hospital, England. He worked at the Bristol Children’s Hospital, Bristol, England, and then completed his initial training in Acupuncture at the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (UK) Leamington Spa, England (Lic. Ac.) in 1977. He holds an advanced degree in Acupuncture from the College of Traditional Acupuncture (UK), representing additional clinical training (B. Ac.). He obtained his Diploma from the National Commission for Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (Dipl.Ac., NCCAOM) and North Carolina license in 1995.

In addition to clinical private practice since 1977, he has been a guest lecturer of Shen Tao Acupressure at the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture, Leamington Spa, England, and he has also founded a school of acupressure, and taught at, Middle Piccadily Natural Healing Center, Sherborne, Dorset, England.

He is currently in private practice in Hillsborough and Durham, NC., and a clinical supervisor at Jung Tao School, Sugar Grove, NC.

Myra Jane Ramseur, FNP

Ms. Ramseur was the first RN to work in a small community clinic as part of helping to establish a rural health program in nearby Madison County, NC. She was in the first Nurse Practitioner class at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1975, and received one of the first Masters Degrees in Health Education at Georgia State University. She was also the first Nurse Practitioner to work in student Health Services at the Asheville branch of the University of North Carolina. She is a graduate of the acupuncture program at Jung Tao School, and is a NC licensed acupuncturist.

Ms. Ramseur has worked in various settings in her 28 years of health practice, including hospitals and home health care, as well as hospice and health education classes. Recently, she moved to Boone and has been employed part-time by the Appalachian State University Student Health Center and the Watauga County Health Department.

Cathlene Scoblionko, MSN, RNC, ANP-BC

Cathy Scoblionko has been a board certified adult nurse practitioner since 1988, and practiced primary care until 2004. After leaving full time practice, she was Allied Health Programs Manager for a junior college for two years. Her teaching experience includes medical terminology, nutrition, anatomy & physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, microbiology and several medical career specific courses. She is currently practicing in aesthetics and safe patient handling.

Michael Stadtmauer N.D., L.Ac.

Michael Stadtmauer N.D., L.Ac. is a licensed Naturopathic Physician, licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist in private practice in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Stadtmauer strives to integrate eastern and western natural medicine in a synergistic approach that borrows from the best of what each has to offer. His focus is to attempt to discover the root cause of an illness, wherever it may lie. In this pursuit, he uses acupuncture, Chinese herbal formulas, natural supplements, hydrotherapy, homeopathy, and lifestyle and dietary counseling.

Dr. Stadtmauer received his Masters of Chinese Medicine from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon in 2000 by completing their Classical Chinese Medicine program. He also received his Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine at the same time. He is also a Diplomate in Acupuncture certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Currently, Dr. Stadtmauer serves as the Clinic Director of the Jung Tao Student Clinic where he is also a Clinic Supervisor.

adjunct faculty

Sean C. Marshall, DAc

Born in 1948 in Asheboro, North Carolina, Dr. Marshall has taught taijiquan and conducted a general acupuncture practice for 38 years. For much of that time he specialized in the treatment of gynecologic conditions by Chinese medicine. He graduated with honors from the Occidental Institute of Chinese Studies (Montreal) in 1978. He received his Master of Acupuncture from that institution in 1981. He has been a Diplomate of the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine since 1986. He was certified by the British Acupuncture Association in 1987. In 1988 he was the 42nd recipient of the Doctor of Acupuncture degree from the British College of Acupuncture (London), the subject of his dissertation being Reproductive System Energetics. Personal tutors in acupuncture have included: Nguyen Van Nghi, MD, Tran Viet Dzung, MD, Jean-Claud Darras, MD, Dr. Med. Hartwig Schuldt, Koji Okazaki, MD, OMD, and Wang Shih-chang, CA. Personal tutors in taijiquan were senior students of Cheng Man-ching: Fred Lehrmen, Tam Gibbs, Maggie Newman, Ed Young, and William C.C. Chen. He studied taiji sword with T. T. Liang.

Dr. Marshall has published and lectured in the United States, Germany, Austria, France, and England. He was founder and twice president of the Acupuncture Association of Minnesota. He is founder and president of Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine (1976). He was Professor and Director of the Program in Chinese Medicine at Northwestern College of Chiropractic from 1987 to 1990, in which he implemented the expansion of the didactic curriculum. He also created and supervised a new broad-based clinical internship component of that program.

The last 20 years have seen a remarkable expansion of Dr. Marshall's efforts and accomplishments in Chinese medicine. In 1999 he was given a directive by his mentor, Dr. Nguyen Van Nghi, to bring this doctor’s 1500 page French edition of the classical text: Huangdi Neijing Lingshu into the English language for the first time. These three volumes have recently been completed and published. Following the death of Dr. Nguyen in December of 1999, Christine Recours Nguyen, M.D., his daughter and executor of his estate, was pleased to find the work of the Jung Tao translation team to be of such quality, that this exclusive authorization was reaffirmed and renewed to include the entire works of Nguyen Van Nghi. This includes Suwen, Nanjing, Zhenjiu Dajing, Maijing and Shanghanlun. In 2007, Dr. Marshall was named President of Institute Van Nghi USA, a North American branch of the international organization dedicated to the perpetuation of Dr. Nguyen Van Nghi’s lifelong work in the field of Classical Chinese Medicine.

Dr. Marshall currently lives and works in the Appalachian Mountains of northwestern North Carolina. He continues to pursue his art and music through personal composition as well as incidental music for Jung Tao Productions DVD’s, original videos and digital art works for education in Chinese medicine and taijiquan.

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 enter and complete the B.S. in Radiologic Science Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. From there she completed a Masters in Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. She has over fifteen years of combined experience serving as a faculty member at Trident Technical College, 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 the largest mobile mammography/health screening company in the nation, and Business Manager of a health care consulting firm and a medical acupuncture network. Ms. Moyle graduated from the acupuncture program at Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine in 2004, and is currently in private practice as a licensed acupuncturist.


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