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January 8, 2004

For More Information Contact: Rebecca Wilkowski, Phone: (800) 729-0941

Pacific College Board Member Elected President of International Professional School of Bodywork

Psychologist and licensed acupuncturist Richard Gold was elected president of the International Professional School of Bodywork (IPSB) on January 1, 2004.

As President of IPSB, Gold will work primarily in the areas of faculty development and faculty expansion.

“I hope to be able to represent IPSB positively in the community with my work as a teacher, practitioner and author,” Gold said. “IPSB is a cutting edge school and personal growth institute. I am proud to be in a leadership role there.”

Gold has played critical roles in the development of both IPSB and Pacific College of Oriental Medicine since the early 1980s. He has been on the Board of Directors at IPSB since 1983, and was made Chairman of the Board in 2001. In 1986, Gold became a founding Board member and professor at Pacific College in San Diego. In 1992, he was also a founding Board member of Pacific’s New York branch.
In addition to his leadership roles at IPSB and Pacific College, Gold currently teaches Thai Massage and Seitai Shiatsu at both schools.
“I like sharing healing skills that I know help relieve human suffering and promote the development and growth of the student,” Gold said. “I think touch is vital to human survival and comfort. Touch is a core human need. Conscious touch facilitates wholeness.”

This passion for his practice has made Gold a popular speaker at Pacific College’s annual Symposium. Students who enroll in Gold’s classes are fortunate enough to study with a faculty member who is considered a leading expert in traditional Oriental body therapies. In 1979, Gold studied at Xinhua Hospital in Shanghai, and in 1986, he apprenticed with Seitai Shiatsu Master Kyoshi Kato. In both 1988, 1989 and 1992, Gold studied Nuad Bo’Rarn, the traditional medical massage of Thailand, at the Old Medicine Hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

In recognition of his education and skill, Gold was elected to the National Advisory Board of the American Oriental Body Therapy Association in 1993 representing expertise in Thai massage.

In addition to being a popular teacher and maintaining a private practice in San Diego, Gold is also a published author. He has had a chapter published in the prestigious manual, “Acupuncture in Practice,” and has published his own book, titled “Thai Massage: A Traditional Medical Technique.” Gold also boasts three instructional videos, titled “Nuad Bo’Rarn, Tradition Thailand Medical Massage;” “Seitai Shiatsu;” and “Nuad Bo’Rarn, Traditional Thai Massage.”

Through his work at Pacific College, Gold has also led pioneering research efforts. In 1991, he created the protocol for an in-house study of the effect if acupuncture on tinnitus. The following year, Gold began a study of the effect of acupuncture and herbs on PMS symptoms, which was expanded and funded by the National Institute of Health in 1994. More recently, Gold wrote a grant proposal and ran a study researching the effect of barley juice extract on Irritable Bowel Syndrome in 1999.

For more information, please call 800-729-0941.

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