LOBSANG DHONDUP
Medical Director and Traditional Tibetan Physician
Dr.
Lobsang Dhondup graduated in 1988 from the Tibetan medical school
in Lhasa, Tibet, with the Three Great Nobilities Honor for Excellence
in Knowledge, Behavior, and Health Standards. Dr. Dhondup worked for
two years as a Doctor of traditional Tibetan Medicine in Tibet followed
by two years at the Men-Tsee-Khang Tibetan Medical Institute in Dharamsala,
where be obtained the degree of Menpa Ka Chupa (analogous to western
graduate/Master's Degree).
Dr. Dhondup then traveled to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, where he worked at the Menpa Dratsang Institute for Doctors and the Medical University of Mongolia from 1992-1998. In Mongolia, Dr. Dhondup was a teacher of Traditional Tibetan medicine, assisting to re-establish Tibetan Medicine in Mongolia, and worked closely with western doctors and research scientists with an interest in cell membranes.
Dr. Dhondup arrived in the United States in 1998 to attend the First International Conference of Tibetan Medicine in Washington D.C. and moved his family to Los Angeles, California to study for his Masters in Acupuncture.
In 2001 the Dhondup's moved to Santa Barbara, California where Dr. Dhondup worked as a Research Specialist at the University of California, Santa Barbara where Dr. Dhondup established a long-term collaboration with Dr. Cynthia Husted of UCSD to interpret myelin, multiple sclerosis, neurodegenerative and autoimmune disorders from the perspective of Tibetan Medicine.
Since 2001 Dr. Dhondup has been practicing Tibetan Medicine with the Tibetan Healing Center in San Diego, California and sees patients in San Diego, Los Angeles and Sausalito California, In 2004 he and the Tibetan Healing Center received the Asian Heritage Award for Excellence in Health and Medicine.
Dr.
Dhondup has taught and lectured on Tibetan Medicine within the United
States and has presented his research and case studies at the Second
International Conference on Tibetan Medicine in Washington DC in 2003
and at the Columbia University Integrated Studies conference in New
York in 2006. Dr. Dhondup has published numerous articles on Tibetan
medicine and his research paper on Multiple Sclerosis is due out in
2007. Currently Dr. Dhondup lives with his wife and two children in
Temecula, California.