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Dr. Daniel has been an instructor at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine since the day it started in March, 1993 when it was then called the Pacific Institute of Oriental Medicine. At that time he taught Medical Terminology, Anatomy 1 and Biochemistry and served as the Chair of the Biomedicine Department. Later he became Chair of the Oriental Medicine Department. At the college, in addition to the above courses, he has also taught Anatomy 2, Point Location 2, Point Location 4, Introduction to Orthopedics and Neurological Testing, Orthopedics and Neurological Testing, Biology, Herbs 4, Herbs 5, Pathophysiology 1, Oriental Medicine 3, Oriental Medicine 4 (now Diagnosis and Treatment 1), and Diagnosis (formerly called Oriental Medicine 4). He also served as a mentor for a Biochemistry course given through Empire State College. He was the first practitioner and clinical supervisor in the college clinic and continues to serve in that position. He was a board member of the Acupuncture Society of New York for five years (1995 – 2000). He taught a review course for the NCCA examination (now NCCAOM) in 1993 given under the auspices of ASNY. Later he became a proctor for the point location section of the NCCA examination for two years and then became a member of the Examination Development Committee in acupuncture for the NCCAOM which he continues to do. He served as Chair of that committee in 2004 – 2005 and also served as a member and Chair of the Exam Development Committee in Biomedicine. He was a Commissioner of the NCCAOM from 2005 – 2009.
After graduating from High School, in 1965 Dr. Daniel worked as a volunteer orderly at Sharon Hospital, in Sharon Connecticut. Dr. Daniel graduated with a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969, with majors in Biochemistry, Biological Sciences and Psychology. After graduating, he worked at the Berkeley Free Clinic and also as a volunteer attendant at Napa State Hospital in California in a locked ward for chronic schizophrenia). He later was in a graduate program in Experimental Psychology at San Francisco State College from 1971 – 1973 during which time he, another graduate student and two professors attempted to create a Biofeedback laboratory. From 1974 to 1977 he attended Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon and graduated in 1977 as a Doctor of Chiropractic. After graduating Dr. Daniel worked at the White Bird alternative clinic in Eugene, Oregon as well as in a private practice. In 1974 while at WSCC, he briefly took part in a course in Acupuncture that was under the auspices of the North American College of Acupuncture which at that time was the only course of its kind in the United States. Later, while living in Israel, Dr. Daniel attended classes in Traditional Chinese Medicine given by the Israel Acupuncture College in Tel Aviv, receiving a diploma for that education. From 1989 to 1992 Dr. Daniel attended the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco and graduated with an MSTCM in 1992. Since 1999 Dr. Daniel has been studying Homeopathy through the British Institute of Homeopathy and became a Fellow of the British Institute of Homeopathy in 2000.
Dr. Daniel became licensed to practice Chiropractic in Oregon, California, Pennsylvania and New York. He became licensed to practice Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine in California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut. He has practiced as a Chiropractor in California, Oregon, New York and Israel. In Israel he worked as a Chiropractor in the clinic of the Vegetarians and Vegans Movement in Tel Aviv for eight years (1980 – 1982 and then 1984 – 1989).
He has practiced as a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He continues to have a private practice in both in New York, where he has been in private practice at the Grand Meridian clinic in Chinatown since 1998, and practices Acupuncture in Connecticut. After the events at the WTC in New York of September 2001, Dr. Daniel was among the first people to do volunteer work for the rescue workers at the Jacob Javits Center as part of a team from PCOM. In 1999 he was a presenter at the Town Hall Meeting of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy in New York City and in 2009 was a presenter at a conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology, also in New York City.