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About ATCQA
American Tai Chi and Qigong Association(ATCQA) is a national non-profit organization. Its ultimate goal is to promote Tai Chi, of any style and any linkage, in the United States so that more and more people will benefit from it.
1. Promote Tai Chi as a Complementary and Alternative Medicine to benefit the public health.
2. Promote Tai Chi as a physical activity for fitness and overall wellness.
3. Represent and serve Tai Chi professionals nationwide.
4. Educate the public of the knowledge about Tai Chi.
ATCQA's Honors
Since its inception, ATCQA has received wide recognitions from Federal government agencies, Tai Chi experts and many other professionals in the industries such as health, fitness and Tai Chi in particular. Here are just a few examples --
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ATCQA has several top-notch Tai Chi experts sitting on its Advisory Board.
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In April 2003, American Tai Chi and Qigong Association was accepted as a member of Healthy People 2010 Consortium, a program established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It consists of more than 400 national membership organizations.
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In July 2003, ATCQA was awarded a grant by the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library, to create a website of reliable Tai Chi & Health Information, located at http://www.americantaichi.net.
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In 2006, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), the Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), cited ATCQA Website as one of the sources for its offical publication Tai Chi for Health Purposes.
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ATCQA is also used as an official source for information about Tai Chi by various organizations and their websites, from the national-level American Institute for Cancer Research, to community-based Family Service & Community Mental Health Center (a not-for-profit corporation serving McHenry County of Illinois since 1959), and so on.
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ATCQA has received a lot of media coverages, including Bicycling, the World's #1 road and mountain biking magazine.
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One of ATCQA's website, http://www.americantaichi.net, is picked by healthfinder.gov as the only qualified online information provider dedicated to Tai Chi.
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In 2004 and 2005, ATCQA was invited by the U.S. Administration On Aging to demonstrate Tai Chi in the National Fitness Event.
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ATCQA is a member of National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
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Since March 2003, ATCQA has been a partner of Pick Your Path to Health, a public education campaign sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health.
ATCQA Advisory Board
To ensure better quality of the information and services that ATCQA provides to its members and the public, ATCQA established the Advisory Board on Tai Chi & Consumer Health Information. While their background and expertise may vary, all the current members of this board have extensive experience in Tai Chi and they all have had advanced education in the academic fields related to Western and/or Chinese Medicine.
The current board members are:
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Dr. Li-Chuan Chen
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Dr. Roger Jahnke
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Dr. Keith Jeffery
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Dr. Paul Lam
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Ms. Susan A. Matthews
To read more about the board members, please click here.
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