Dr Xiping Zhou – President of AAHW
Dr. Xiping Zhou is the president of the American Academy of Health and Wellness in Roseville, MN (an acupuncture school offering master’s and doctorate degree programs). He is also the founder and president of East-West Healing Arts Institute in both Madison and Milwaukee.
Dr. Zhou has been practicing and teaching acupuncture and Chinese medicine for over 40 years. In July 1993, while serving as chief physician and assistant professor at Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dr. Zhou was asked to visit the United States to speak at the National Conference of Acupuncture about his success treating paralysis in stroke patients with acupuncture. From 1994-2000, he taught and practiced acupuncture and Chinese medicine at the Midwest College for the Study of Oriental Medicine in Madison and Racine, WI. Dr. Zhou established his private practice in Madison and Milwaukee in 1996. In 1999, he joined the staff of Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee, becoming one of the very first acupuncturists on staff at any Wisconsin hospital.
In about four decades of practicing acupuncture and traditional Chinese healing arts, Dr. Zhou has helped many people worldwide with a wide variety of physical and emotional illnesses and problems through his comprehensive healing program incorporating acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and medical Chinese massage as well as cupping therapy. He has developed expertise in treating acute and chronic pain, sports and orthopedic injury, women’s health (including infertility and menopause), and post stroke rehabilitation. His accomplishments have been recognized in many local and national media including TV, radio, magazine, and newspapers. He was featured in Isthmus in 1999, Wisconsin State Journal in 2004, and was voted best doctor by Isthmus readers in 2012.
Dr. Zhou has been a national speaker for over 30 years on the topics of acupuncture, traditional Chinese Medicine, and TuiNa therapeutic massage for his expertise of unique acupuncture treatment methods. His topics include Dr. Zhou’s Advanced Back Shu-Front Mu Acupuncture Techniques for GERD, holistic scalp and Back Shu-Front Mu Acupuncture Technique for dementia and Alzheimer’s, Advanced Acupuncture Technique for Trigeminal Neuralgia, and one-needle technique with distal points to treat acute and chronic lower back pain. Dr. Zhou also did many advanced TuiNa hands-on lectures and workshops for different national acupuncture and massage organizations.
In the last several years, Dr. Zhou has given speeches and lectures for many national acupuncture, Chinese medicine and massage therapy associations and conferences, including the 19th American Association of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Symposium in San Francisco and the 10th American TCM Congress for the American TCM Association in Las Vegas. He also presented for the Young Acupuncturist Association of America (YAAA), did an onsite, one day hands-on workshop for the New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and was a keynote speaker for the Wisconsin ASA Chapter Annual Conference. In April 2025, Dr. Zhou did a presentation for the 10th Annual ASA National Conference. Due to his Western medicine knowledge and experience of acupuncture and TCM, all of his lectures have been warmly received with positive feedback.