EDUCATION

 

Ph.D.     Medical Science (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Medical College of Ohio, Ohio, USA, June, 1992-June, 1997

 

M.S. Biology, University of Idaho, Idaho, USA, August, 1989-May, 1992

 

O.M.D. Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine & Pharmacology, China, July, 1980-July, 1985

 

 

WORKING EXPERIENCE

 

Holistic Health Practitioner, Northwest of Chicago, Illinois, 1998-present

       Practiced acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, Bio-Energetic testing with EDS device, BioSET healing program. Held certificates for both acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine from the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) and licensed by State of Illinois to practice acupuncture 

 

Research Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998-2000

       Participated in asthma related research (eosinophil development) 

 

IRTA Fellowship, National Institute of Aging, NIH, 1997-1998

       Participated in research on osteoarthritis (apoptosis of type II collagen) 

 

Consultant, Center for Integrative Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, 1997-1998

       Taught CME credit program on acupuncture. Participated in clinical studies on acupuncture, including grant proposal writing and clinical trial design 

 

Consultant, Taoist Health Institute, Washington DC, 1995-2001

       Conducted scientific research on potential herbal drugs. Analyzed FDA regulations on botanical drugs and nutritional supplement. Researched Chinese pharmaceutical market and drug application process 

 

Resident Physician, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, August, 1985-July, 1989

       Practiced both traditional Chinese medicine and conventional Western medicine

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Taught public lectures and healthcare seminar series at northwest suburb of Chicago and teach Continuing Education Courses at McHenry Community Collage, Harper College and Elgin Community College. The Topics include Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine and Chinese aspect of the Body-Mind Relationship (Chinese Qi Gong)

 

Served as faculty member for CME credit program for physicians at George Washington Medical Center in 1997, and taught acupuncture courses

 

Taught Biology course at University of Idaho during 1991-1992 as an instructional assistant

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Hong, GH, Poster Presentation: Clinical Correlates of Energetic Testing with Electrodermal Screening (2004), Complement Ther Med. 10 (1):213

 

Wu, JN, Contributing author (Hong G.), An Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica (2002), Oxford Press

 

Hong, G, KK Schlender, RT Trumbly, EM Reimann, Sds22 is a subunit of a stable isolatable form of protein phosphatase 1 (Glc7p) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2000), Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 376 (2):288-298

 

Wei, CA, G Hong, and WE Horton, Jr, Evidence for negative regulation of collagen II gene expression involving the binding of an 87 kDa protein to a conserved motif in   the intron 1 enhancer region (1998), submitted to JBC with revision

 

Hong, G, Sds22 is the major regulatory subunit of protein phosphatase 1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1997), Ph.D. thesis, Medical College of Ohio

 

Hong, G, Molecular correlates of karyotypic mega-evolution in Equus (1992), M. S. thesis, University of Idaho

 

Hamilton MJ, G Hong, and HA Wichman, Intragenomic movement and concerted evolution in satellite DNA in Peromyscus: evidence from in situ hybridization (1992), Cytogenet Cell Genet. 60:40-44

 

Hong Y, J Smiley, and G Hong, The discovery of fossil DNA, its geological background and evolutionary significance (1991), Exploration of Nature 35:41-47

 

Guo SS, XC Liang, G Hong, PS Wang, XD Wang, Y Ji, Y Wang, LH Tao, and CY Zhu, Tongue color and whole blood viscosity of patients with diabetes mellitus after treatment by traditional Chinese medicine (1989), J Tradit. Chin. Med. 9(4): 294-6

 

Liang XC, SS Guo, ZF Qian, G Hong, LH Tao, Y Wang, and CY Zhu, Effects of    traditional Chinese medicinal herbs on hemorheology in diabetics (1989), Proc. Chin. Acad. Med. Sci. & Peking Union Med. Col. 4(3): 135-8