Dr Emad Tukmachi obtained his MBChB in 1974 from Baghdad University and then in 1986 he was awarded a PhD from Royal College of Surgeons - London University in the field of Neurophysiology and also a DTM (Diploma in Tropical medicine) from the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians, Dublin-Ireland. He was appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1986 to 1989 and then as a Lecturer at the Department of Neuroscience, Keele University from 1989 to 1992.
His acupuncture experience started in 1985 when he joined Dr. Felix Mann (a well known Western Acupuncture Physician in Europe ) in London who taught him the skills and techniques of acupuncture. In more depth, he studied and researched further the Traditional Chinese acupuncture in the UK before he went to China to study the complete system of acupuncture there. Since 1992, he has been practicing acupuncture at two private Hospitals: Newcastle-Under-Lyme Nuffield Hospital and Wolverhampton Nuffiled Hopsital. He also ran private acupuncture courses to train GPs and physiotherapists in this field at City General Hospital , Stoke-On-Trent , Staffordshire.
For the past 15 years Dr Emad Tukmachi published many articles in various Medical Journal on acupuncture treatment of various diseases such as:
- Acute and Chronic pain
- osteoarthrtitis
- migraine
- backache
- frozen shoulder
- Shingles
- hot flushes.
- and other diseases .
