Prof. Volker Scheid, PhD
Prof. Dr. Volker Scheid (PhD., BA (Hons), FRCHM, MBAcC), has been practicing Chinese medicine in his own practice since 1984 and teaching in Germany, England, the USA, Australia and other European countries since 1995. As the principal author of the second revised edition of Formulas and Strategies and the Handbook of Chinese Medical Formulas, he is one of the leading authorities on Chinese formulary in the West. For over twenty years, he has combined this activity with internationally renowned interdisciplinary research in the field of East Asian medicine and history of science. He is a visiting professor at the University of Westminster, London, where he directed the EASTmedicine Research Institute until 2018, and at Zhejiang University of Chinese Medicine. He is the author of two influential books dealing with the historical development of Chinese medicine in late imperial and modern China, Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China (Duke 2002) and Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1626-2006 (Eastland Press 2007), as well as more than thirty articles and chapters in scholarly publications. Currents of Tradition was translated into Chinese and published in China in 2016. The knowledge that Prof. Scheid has acquired in the course of his research significantly influences his style of teaching and practice.
