Elizabeth Chen Christenson, MD, FAAMA, FCAP, ABHM, Dipl Ac, LAc, has been in private practice specializing in Family Medicine and Complementntary & Alternative Medicine incorporating Acupuncture - Oriental Medicine for the past 14 years. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at the Department of Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine and an Associate Professor of the Institute of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Hawaii.
Dr. Christenson is board certified in Holistic Medicine, Medical Acupuncture and Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and is a Diplomate and Fellow of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, American Board of Medical Acupuncture, and American Board of Pathology - Anatomic and Clinical. She is a Diplomate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and is also licensed in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine certified by the National Certification Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and (NCCAOM). She is a life-member of American Medical Association (AMA), a member of Hawaii Medical Association and Honolulu County Medical Society, the American Association of Oriental Medicine and Global Federation of Chinese Business Women – Hawaii Chapter. She is also serving as a Director of the Board of Sounding Joy Music Therapy in Hawaii. She holds a certificate as Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioner (CTHP) through the International Harp therapy Program. She is an author of a chapter entitled “Chinese Five Element Music Healing” for a book entitled “Harp Therapy Cradle of Sound” (2006).
With a diversified cultural background and command of three continental languages (English, Chinese and Italian) she is active in multi-cultural community health services and is devoted in bridging the best of eastern and western medicine, spirituality in medicine as well as music and medicine.
