March 29, 2025 at YoSan University • In-person training + online resources
Auricular Stimulation: Methods for Interventions with the Highest Grades of Evidence
Skills Learned:
- Assessment insights to quickly secure patient-practitioner trust
- Somatopic organization of auricular reflex zones
- Using active points and point selection techniques
- Treatments using evidence-based auricular acupuncture and acupressure techniques
- Patient communications on indications, limitations, and benefits
- Addressing the cycle of symptoms (pain, anxiety, disturbed sleep) associated with complex and chronic health conditions
- Evidence basis (research and mechanisms)
Presenters
Kajsa Landgren, RN, PhD
Registered nurse specialized in psychiatry, acupuncturist, and associate professor at Lund University, Sweden. Author of, NADA: Ear Acupuncture for Addiction and Mental Illness
Dr. Landgren is a senior lecturer and researcher at Lund University, trained in acupuncture, with decades of clinical practice experience in auricular methods. Her doctoral thesis (2011) included articles on acupuncture in infants with colic, followed by postdoc research on ear acupuncture in psychiatric care. Her publications include research on on the experiences of patients and health care professionals receiving and using auricular acupuncture.
Duvan Hoffmann, MBA
Director at IntegrateAuricular, and passionate advocate for advancing non-invasive neuromodulation across the continuum of care.
Duvan is an active member of the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS), with appointment on the Education Committee. And, he has lectured for the Austrian Society of Standardized Acupunkture (OGKA), documented and produced trainings by the German Academy for Acupuncture (DAA), and has recently assembled an international team of medical experts for the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum on non-invasive auricular vagus nerve stimulation (aVNS).
Host
Maxim Health
Pain clinic for spinal and neurological disorders
The on-site, in-person training for this course, has been coordinated by Megan Filoramo, APN-C (in conjunction with a related aVNS curriculum development project), and is being kindly hosted by the pain and neurology experts at Maxim Health. The scheduled training on April 10th will be located at 310 Madison Ave, Suite 300, Morristown, NJ 07960.