Our Doctors of Acupuncture
In Rhode Island, Doctors of Acupuncture must graduate from a nationally accredited acupuncture school and pass a National Board Certification Exam. Acupuncture training requires four years of graduate school, an internship and a lifetime of continuing education.
Nancy Graham
Nancy Graham is an alumna of the New England School of Acupuncture, and has maintained her practice in South County, Rhode Island since 1988. She is conversant in Chinese language and culture and has studied traditional Chinese Medicine in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. Nancy is NCCAOM National Board certified in Chinese Herbal Medicine. She is a lifelong student of the Chinese martial and healing arts of Tai Chi and Chi Gong.
Patricia Gilmartin
Patricia has been practicing acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine at her clinic Center of Balance, in East Greenwich for the last seventeen years. She is certified by the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, and is licensed by the state of Rhode Island as a Doctor of Acupuncture. Dr. Gilmartin received her Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University. She is an alumna of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego, California.
Medelise Reifsteck
Medelise Reifsteck, Doctor of Acupuncture, is a graduate of the New England School of Acupuncture at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She received specialized degrees in both Chinese Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine and Japanese Style Acupuncture. Medelise began her acupuncture journey by treating veterans at the Edith Nourse Rogers Veterans Memorial Hospital in Bedford, MA focusing primarily on treatments for pain conditions and PTSD; and at the Cleveland Clinic working with patients on their migraines and musculoskeletal pain. Her passion is using acupuncture to treat patients and educate them about Chinese medicine’s alternative thinking about health and illness. Her years teaching in Thailand and Vietnam have served as an inspiration to go deep into East Asian healing methods. Medelise cultivates her energy daily with Qi Gong and Nei Gong exercises to enhance her energetic healing capacity.
Medelise grew up in South County and is excited to return to the area and share her skills with the community. Medelise is an all season surfer and a food geek.