Our Team
Jingduan Yang, MD
Founder and Medical Director
Locations: Marlton, NJ; Bryn Mawr, PA; New York, NY
Areas of Specialty: Integrative mental health, stress and anxiety, and chronic pain.
Modalities: Integrative Psychiatry, Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Advanced Nutrient Therapy and Functional Medicine
Jingduan Yang, MD, is a leading physician, board-certified psychiatrist, foremost integrative medicine expert, and fifth-generation teacher and practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, specializing in clinical acupuncture.
Dr. Yang’s knowledge is the culmination of 40 years of training, teaching, and clinical experience in the fundamentals of Chinese medicine and integrative medicine, coupled with a distinguished education at prestigious medical universities in China, Australia, the US, and the UK.
Dr. Yang is a faculty member at the University of Arizona’s Center for Integrative Medicine and a former assistant professor of psychiatry and director of the Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture Program at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University.
Dr. Yang is a sought-after speaker and author of two books:
- Facing East: Ancient Health and Beauty Secrets for the Modern Age, written in collaboration with noted designer and fashion icon Norma Kamali.
- Clinical Acupuncture and Ancient Chinese Medicine, a textbook resource co-authored with Dr. Daniel Monti for modern healthcare professionals seeking effective and efficient knowledge about acupuncture and ancient Chinese medicine, published by Oxford University Press.
Qinhua Gong, MD (China), L.Ac.
Lead Acupuncturist
Locations: Marlton, NJ
Areas of Specialty: Chronic and acute pain, women’s health, fertility, migraine headaches, stress and anxiety, chronic fatigue, and post surgery pain management
Modalities: Acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, and Chinese herbal medicine
Dr. Qinhua Gong is a third-generation practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She has earned a medical degree from the Heilong Jiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China, and is a licensed acupuncturist in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Dr. Gong worked in hospitals in China for over ten years and used herbs and acupuncture to treat thousands of patients with various health conditions. She has over 20 years of clinical experience both in China and the United States, and brings her extensive knowledge and experience in herbal medicine to Tao Clinic of Acupuncture.
She works to form a strong personal connection with her patients and develops treatment plans based on the patients’ individual health care needs. Her holistic approach to healing combines the use of acupuncture and customized herbal tea formulations. Dr. Gong is known for her experience and compassionate nature and the comfort it installs in her patients.
In her leisure time, Dr. Gong enjoys meditating and spending quality time with her children.
Dr. Gong is an approved provider of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield in New Jersey as well as Cigna.
Ruonan Zhang, M.D. (China), L.Ac.
Lead Acupuncturist
Locations: Bryn Mawr, PA & Philadelphia, PA
Areas of Specialty: Cancer support, women’s health, fertility support, migraine headaches, chronic fatigue, stress and anxiety, healthy aging support
Modalities: Acupuncture, acupressure, cupping, moxibustion, and Chinese herbal medicine
Dr. Zhang has over 20 years of clinical experience in practicing acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and western medicine. From that experience, she recognizes that multiple factors can contribute to health conditions, including dietary habits, lifestyle, emotional trauma and distress, compromised immune function, chemical toxicities, and genetic predispositions. She combines facets of both eastern and western medicine to provide customized treatment plans for each patient’s condition.
Dr. Zhang received her medical degree from Shaanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. She has a Master’s Degree in the Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine for Cancer Care from the Fourth Military Medical University. Dr. Zhang worked as an attending physician in hospitals in China for over 10 years, the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for 9 years and she has been working with Dr. Yang at Tao Clinic of Acupuncture and Yang Institute of Integrative Medicine since 2008.
Dr. Zhang is an approved In-network Provider of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield and Cigna.
Edmund Gibson, L.Ac, MSAOM.
Senior Acupuncturist
Locations: Marlton, NJ; Bryn Mawr, PA
Areas of Specialty: Sports injury, mental illness and addiction, chronic pain, stroke rehabilitation, and post surgery pain management.
Modalities: acupuncture, acupressure, cupping, moxibustion, Chinese herbal medicine, and tuning fork therapy.
Edmund uses his acupuncture treatment skills and sports medicine experience to help athletes get back on the playing field. Edmund’s passion is sports medicine, with the belief that acupuncture can save athletes from surgery, or aid them both before and after surgery.
In 1997, Edmund injured his back in a surfing accident, suffering a sciatic nerve impingement and a herniated disc. In therapy he was exposed to Eastern Medicine for the first time. Acupuncture and yoga helped him recover from his back injury.
Inspired by the experience, he enrolled in the Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine, where he earned a Master’s Degree in acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine.
From his years in the field, Edmund brings extensive clinical experience. He has studied in over a dozen acupuncture clinics throughout Osaka, Japan, where he has observed and worked with some of the country’s most prominent doctors. He has also spent time working with widely known Master Herbalist Dr. Henry Han, at the Santa Barbara Herb Clinic.
Edmund was also an on-board Acupuncturist for many years, traveling the world on cruise ships working for Steiner Leisure Spa. Through the cruise ship experience, Edmund strengthened his clinical and communication skills.
Since joining the Tao Clinic of Acupuncture, Edmund has received further training from Dr. Jingduan Yang, M.D., practicing acupuncture effectively within the context of integrative medicine.
Edmund also has special certifications in the field of addiction, including completion of the National Acupuncture Detox Associations course. He is an Addiction Recovery Specialist as well as a Certified Recovery Specialist.
Jason Rinker, LAc MA.
Senior Acupuncturist
Locations: Bryn Mawr, PA & Philadelphia, PA
Areas of Specialty: Chronic pain, digestive dysfunction, autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue, anxiety, depression, and insomnia.
Modalities: Acupuncture, acupressure, cupping, moxibustion, Chinese herbal medicine, and meditation
Since 1999, Jason has been a registered and licensed acupuncturist with the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine. In that time, he has improved the lives of hundreds of people suffering from chronic pain, depression, injuries, and allergies—guiding them toward optimal health through acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
With a clinical focus rooted in western biological sciences, and the application of acupuncture, herbs, orthopedic massage, cupping, moxibustion, meditation, and diet therapy, Jason’s integrated treatment is customized and holistic. It encompasses all aspects of an individual’s physical and mental faculties resulting in optimal outcomes.
Jason’s interest in Chinese medicine began when his mother was undergoing cancer treatment. He witnessed how acupuncture helped offset the effects of radiation for her Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Later in life, it was through acupuncture that he found relief from severe tendonitis of the knee caused by hours of mountain biking.
The positive results he has witnessed and experienced have led him to devote his life to helping patients overcome physical, mental, and spiritual imbalances.
Jason earned a Master’s degree from the NW Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Seattle, WA where he specialized in integrating Eastern and Western approaches to treating work, sports, and orthopedic injuries. In the spring of 2007, he studied in China at Shanghai University.
Currently, Jason is studying advanced Chinese medical massage in New York City, with renowned martial arts expert Tom Bisio.
Dr. Brucker is a kind, caring, and skilled diagnostician and clinician.
With the training in naturopathic medicine, ancient Chinese medicine, and acupuncture, Dr. Brucker, adapts traditional wisdom to meet contemporary medical issues.
His degree in physics has lain strong evidence based scientific foundation from which he has continued to expand through the study of Chinese medicine and Goethean science. He concurrently enrolled in the Classical Chinese Medicine acupuncture program at NUNM and received extensive hands-on training in diverse lineages of Asian medicine.
Dr. Brucker graduated from the four-year Naturopathic Medicine program from the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) in Portland, Oregon. He has studied modern medical science, including biochemistry, anatomy, lab diagnosis, and pharmacology extensively. His training has prepared him well to function as a primary care doctor in the modern medical system.
As a clinician, his patient care approach stems from a thoughtful healing touch and natural curiosity of his patients’ inner worlds. He has a specific interest and experiences in pain management, mental health, digestive and auto-immune disease, allergy, and cardiology.
