Sarah E. Rivkin, DAHM, LAc, Dipl. OM (任昕蕾) (she/her)
Practitioner, scholar, and teacher of East Asian Medicine
In addition to nineteen years in private practice as an acupuncturist and herbalist with a focus on reproductive/hormonal health and pediatrics, Dr. Rivkin is an experienced writer, teacher, and editor in the field of East Asian Medicine.
Her writing has been published in Chinese Medicine and Culture, The Lantern, Medical Acupuncture, Convergent Points, and the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine (NAJOM). She was featured on the Qiological podcast discussing her research on case studies and narrative medicine and has presented at East Asian medical history conferences in Taipei, Tel Aviv, and Shanghai. She is currently a peer-reviewer for Chinese Medicine and Culture, served on the advisory board of Easy Eats, an online health and wellness magazine, and spent four years as a field editor for The American Acupuncturist, a professional journal previously published by the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM).
Dr. Rivkin is on the faculty at the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (SIEAM) where she teaches case study analysis and clinical writing to master’s and doctoral students. She formerly taught in the post-graduate Chinese Herbology Certificate Program at Tri-State College of Acupuncture, where she designed and implemented a unique case-based learning curriculum. She has also taught the integrative gynecology course for master's degree students at Pacific College of Health and Science, as well as at the Won Institute of Graduate Studies and continuing education classes for White Pine Circle and Healthy Seminars.
She is on the advisory board and is the Director of Community & Outreach for White Pine Circle, a community for practitioners of East Asian Medicine. Other past professional activities include a term on the board of the Acupuncture Society of New York (ASNY), the state professional organization for acupuncture. She lectures publicly on a variety of topics, including keeping healthy with East Asian Medicine, qi gong, and acupressure for infants.
Dr. Rivkin has a Doctorate in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine from the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (SIEAM), a Master of Science in East Asian Medicine from Touro College, and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Northwestern University in Comparative Literary Studies.
Contact: srivkin@slopeacupuncture.com 718-309-0432 voice/text 917-951-0297 WhatsApp