Melanie Katin has been practicing Chinese medicine since 2004, after graduating from PCOM-NY. She also has degrees in anthropology from UC Berkeley, and dance from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. She maintains a busy private practice, where her emphasis is on people with auto-immunity issues, most specifically multiple sclerosis, as well as patients undergoing cancer treatment, and pediatrics. She has been teaching FCM4 and DTD5 (pediatrics & oncology) since 2006, as well as supervising the pediatric clinic shift.