Personal Introduction
Prof. Janos Palhalmi, PhD
Janos Palhalmi is a neurophysiologist (MSc, PhD) and a Health Scientist (PhD) with the aim of understanding the biological background of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to establish more personalized and cost effective therapies and enhance the quality of health preventive and promotive methods. He is a certified expert in alternative and complementary health care, acupuncture and addictology. Besides his scientific research activity, he treats people with traditional acupuncture, manual therapy and also with modern non-invasive electromagnetic field therapy (EMFT). He also graduated as an alternative physiotherapist and combines the modern approach of mio-fascial anatomy with the traditional meridian based methods. Janos Palhalmi started studying oriental martial- and movement arts at the age of 6. He is a member and instructor of two world-wide international Tai Chi and Kung Fu federations (www.plumblossom.net and www.hong-ying.org) and has been cooperating with the Hong Ying Chinese Sport and Culture Center in Leiden, the Netherlands since the year 2000. He established world-wide scientific and clinical connections to promote the research of self-healing processes by integrating the Western and Eastern biomedical approaches. His mission is to achieve more professional integration of non-invasive stimulative therapies (EMFT) and Chinese movement systems into health prevention and rehabilitation.
Education:
University Degree (MSc): Cellular biology, Developmental and Neurobiology Major, Eotvos Lorant University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 1999.
University PhD: Human biology and Neuroscience. Comprehensive final examination in neurobiology, neurochemistry and physiology.
Eotvos Lorant University, Faculty of Natural Sciences. Budapest, Hungary.
Continuing PhD education: Pecs University of Sciences. Faculty of Health Sciences. Pecs, Hungary.
Specialisation: scientific background of Traditional Chinese Medicine and alternative medicine.
Degrees in complementary medicine:
Alternative massage- and physiotherapy.
Ear acupuncture addictology.
Institute for Basic and Continuing Education of Health Care Professionals. Budapest, Hungary.
Acupuncture special course: 3 years, 500 + 200 hours at the Association of Taoist Medicine, Budapest.
Scalp acupuncture special course:
Zhu's Sculp Acupuncture System. Shenzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Honorary professor of the miofascial meridianology research group of Southern Medical University of China, Guangzhou. Department of basic medical sciences.
Editor of Fasciology Journal, Southern Medical University of China, Guangzhou
International Teacher degree in Kung Fu and Tai Chi at the Plumblossom International Federation of Dr. Doc-Fai Wong.
Kung Fu and Tai Chi instructor at the Hong Ying Center of Excellence. Leiden, the Netherlands.
Employment history:
1999-2001: PhD Scholarship at Eotvos Lorant University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology. Budapest, Hungary.
2001-2005: Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary.
2006-2007: Institute of Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the Neurosurgery Scientific Institute. Budapest, Hungary.
2006-2007: Enterpreneur profile: alternative and complementary healthcare.
Special field: massage therapy, movement therapy and acupuncture.
2007-2010: Ormos Institute of Alternative and Conventional Medicine. Budapest, Hungary.
Special field: Acupuncture, manual therapeutic treatments and infrared medical thermographic imaging in diagnostics.
2009- present: East-West BioMedicine Research-Development and Healthcare Ltd. Budapest, Hungary.
Special field: cellular and system level connective tissue research. Establishing research and clinical collaborations with Chinese universities.
Research and development of electric and magnetic acupuncture devices.
Spine therapy, acupuncture and alternative physiotherapy, addictology.
Foreign work experience:
Paul Fleschig Institute of Brain Research. Leipzigh,Germany.
National Institute of Physiology. Okazaki, Japan.
Southern Medical University of China, Guangzhou, Department of Basic Medical Sciences.
Hong Ying Center of Excellence. Leiden, the Netherlands.