Dr. Luke Tian brings his expertise in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and herbology to help patients heal. His speciality is helping cancer patients reach remission by applying acupuncture and herbology in conjunction with their conventional treatments for cancer. Dr. Tian's education includes a bachelor's degree and master's degree in TCM from the Hunan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine & Meteria Medica. Dr. Tian received his Ph.D in cancer pharmacology at Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences in Guangzhou, China. He was a research associate in the U.S. from 1995-2005 at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Pennsylvania's Medical School and at Georgetown University Medical Center.
Dr. Tian has been practicing acupuncture in the Rockville area since 2003. Even though the majority of his patients have cancer, or more specifically leukemia, Dr. Tian treats other illnesses with acupuncture and a combination of herbs that Dr. Tian creates for a particular ailment.