Save the date! The 2026 Great River Symposium is April 10 – 12!
The 2025 Great River Symposium was May 2-3, 2025. This hybrid event welcomed acupuncture and Chinese medicine professionals back to the campus of Northwestern Health Sciences University while allowing the flexibility for people to join via livestream.
The 2026 Great River Symposium is April 10-12, 2026. We hope you can join us!
On Friday, May 2, Randine Lewis will lead a 4-hour session on Daoist Death Medicine. This is a morning of learning that could change the way you think about end-of-life care. Her newest book, Daoist Death Medicine: Navigating the Death Canal with Alchemical Acupuncture, has been called “brilliant” and may help us accept death with more patience, inner peace, and balance.
The modern death care landscape is undergoing significant transformation, and Chinese medicine is uniquely poised to offer valuable support in this shift. Join Dr. Lewis and delve into the cultural attitudes and fears surrounding death, which influence contemporary medical approaches to dying.
“Great price, convenient location, great facility, quality speakers… my only regret is that I didn’t start attending annually years ago!”