Kate’s Bio

Kate BlalackKatrina Blalack is a nationally certified practitioner of Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.

Kate – Your diligent, compassionate professionalism is greatly appreciated and inspirational–if you care enough to be so hard-working and thorough about your patients’ health, it would be an injustice for your patients to take their own health less seriously. – S.P., patient

Education and Experience

Kate received her B.A. from Brown University in Providence, RI. Following her passion for learning about all systems of human health care, Kate began her medical training as a Wilderness EMT as a teenager. In her early 20s, she spent several years traveling, studying and teaching the culture and healing traditions of India, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, and China. During this time, she spent time in clinics for leprosy in India, and with both traditional healers and in modern hospitals in Nepal, India, Bhutan and Tibet. Back in the U.S., she worked in Surgery, Endoscopy and Cancer Care at Boulder Community Hospital before going on to receive her Master’s of Science in Oriental Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College in Boulder, CO.

Advanced Training and Current Practice

Kate returns to China once a year to follow senior practitioners and advance her studies. In 2007, she completed 3 months of advanced training in China, focusing on Chinese herbology and the treatment of dermatology, autoimmune disease and women’s health in private clinics with senior doctors Fang Xian-Shu of Chengdu University of Chinese Medicine and Wu Bo-Ping of Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine University. She also studies acupuncture and moxibustion, classical Chinese medical texts and Chinese herbology at Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine University and Zhejiang Provincial Hospital in Hangzhou, China. Kate’s experience and ongoing training in China continue to profoundly deepen her perspective on, understanding, and practice of Chinese Medicine.

Kate participates in weekly ongoing mentorship studies with Chip Chace, L.Ac., in Boulder, CO, with a focus on osteopathic palpatory diagnosis techniques, treatment planning and herbal prescribing. She studied facial rejuvenation acupuncture with Virginia Doran, L.Ac., and  has participated in advanced palpatory diagnosis and acupuncture trainings with Dan Bensky, D.O., L.Ac., Koei Kuwahara, L.Ac., Jason Robertson, L.Ac., and Matt Callison, L.Ac. She also helped to organize and participated in advanced classical herbal medicine trainings with world-renowned lecturers and practitioners Arnaud Versleys, PhD, L.Ac., Dan Bensky, D.O., PhD., L.Ac., and Craig Mitchell, PhD, L.Ac., and is a certified practitioner of NAET Allergy Elimination Acupuncture.

In pursuing her commitment to the study of Chinese language and to bring much needed translations to the West, Kate has worked for the Beijing based People’s Medical Publishing House (人民卫生出版社) as an editor and translator of PMPH’s Materia Medica Study Guide.

Kate currently practices Chinese Medicine at Chautauqua Health Care in Boulder, Colorado. This integrative clinic offers patients the convenience of a complete on-site herbal pharmacy, nutritional supplements, food allergy testing, massage, cranial sacral and visceral manipulation, Rolfing, and more.

Kate has a special interest in treating women’s health, especially the transitions of adolescence, fertility planning, pre- and post-partum care and menopause, and internal medicine with acupuncture, herbal medicine and dietary therapy. She is committed to treating the whole person, making sure to understand the goals and challenges of each patient. Kate’s patients appreciate her skill as well as her gentle nature.

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