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Qualified both in Western Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM), Dr Zhang's experience includes general gynaecology, with a major interest in infertility, the menopause and gynaecological cancer, in which she has twenty years experience. After graduating in medicine (both Western Medicine and TCM) in 1985, and completing an intern year in China, Dr Zhang commenced training as an obstetrician and gynaecologist. She has a formal post-graduate qualification in Human Reproductive Medicine, and was awarded the degree of MD in 1991. She then commenced PhD studies and was awarded her Ph.D. degree in 1996 in Gynaecological Oncology. Dr Zhang has a longstanding interest in integrated approaches to women’s wellbeing and successfully integrated TCM therapy into her clinical practice while she was working in China. Following post-doctoral research in the area of human immunity in gynaecological patients in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at St. George’s Hospital in London, she has returned to the full time practice of TCM in caring for women. Dr Zhang is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a member of the British Fertility Society and a member of the Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She works closely with consultant gynaecologists. |
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News (09 Dec 2011) Traditional Chinese medicine could double the chances of childless couples conceiving A systemic review demonstrated that that management of female infertility with traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) can improve pregnancy rates 2-fold within a 4 month period compared with Western Medical fertility drug therapy or IVF. CHM is more effective in the treatment of female infertility - achieving on average a 60 per cent pregnancy rate over four months compared with 30 per cent achieved with standard western drug treatment. The research funded by the Australian government was published recently in Complementary Therapies in Medicine
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