Eric Raymond Buckley, L.OM, DOM
Eric Raymond Buckley, L.OM, DOM, hails from Media, Pennsylvania. He is certified in Sports Medicine Acupuncture, Oncology Acupuncture and is a classically trained Chinese Medical Herbologist. He specializes in pain management due to sports related injuries, motor vehicle accidents, and chronic, unremitting pain that is commonly experienced in life. He founded the Integrative Medicine Department for Christus St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, NM and worked with the Palliative Care Department treating cancer patients and patients with advanced chronic disease. He has trained extensively in Asia, attending training programs at the National Hospital of Traditional Medicine, Ha Noi, Viet Nam, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, and Keio University’s Center for Kampo Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. He has worked widely as an advocate for the profession of acupuncture, from state based organizations, to national and international organizations. He is a past president for New Mexico Society of Acupuncture and Asian Medicine (NMSAAM), represented the Acupuncture profession to the American Medical Association’s CPT Editorial Committee for 5 years, and is a former Chair of the U.S. delegation of the International Standards Organization’s Technical Committee 249, Traditional Chinese Medicine (ISO/TC249). Before becoming an acupuncturist, Eric attended agriculture school at the University of Maine’s Sustainable Agriculture program. He farmed organic vegetables for 12 years mostly in Maine and Northern Virginia. Eric has a view of people being a microcosm of nature and believes that Chinese Medicine provides excellent tools to regain and maintain health naturally. He has returned home to Pennsylvania to be closer to his aging father, who he loves dearly.