About

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East West Academy of Healing Arts (EWAHA) is a  501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization (EIN 23-7353699) established in 1973 by founder and president, Effie Poy Yew Chow, Ph.D., R.N., Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM).

For the past 39 years, the East West Academy of Healing Arts has have been dedicated to providing training, clinical treatment, and the dissemination of information on Qigong and Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM). The the core of our philosophy and practice is the combination Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western Medicine.

As health costs rise and medical care at times  becomes impersonal East West Academy offers consumers and institutions a cost-effective, humane option in health promotion and treatment. Our programs and services complement and work closely with Western approaches to find a common meeting ground, a practical dimension, for a new concept of health care and healing. 

Our founder, Dr. Effie Chow, is a Qigong Grandmaster and California Certified Acupuncturist and has been practicing for over 30 years. She is also an international health practitioner, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advisor and a public health  and psychiatric nurse with a Masters in Behavioral Sciences and a Ph.D. in Higher Education. View her Profile, and accreditations on our page.

Dr. Chow has trained and spoken worldwide to more than 450,000 people. She has given seminars, lectures and  motivational and training sessions to more than 350 corporations, hospitals, public  agencies, educational institutions, and professional agencies: Prudential Insurance, the  American Public Health Assn., Westinghouse, Levi Strauss, Planned Parenthood, Harcourt  Brace Jovanovich, Walter Reed Army Medical Center (D.C.), Columbia Lutheran Home  (Seattle), the UC San Francisco School of Medicine, Georgetown University, Southern  California (Kaiser) Permanente, the Chinese Hospital (San Francisco), the University of  British Columbia, the Institute for Managerial and Professional Women (Portland, OR) and  many others.