Tamara Wolfson, M.S., L.Ac., NCCA
3951 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 378-1666
tamara_wolfson@hotmail.com
Tamara Wolfson is a licensed acupuncturist with over ten years of experience in the healthcare industry. Her specialty includes osteopathic acupuncture with a focus on musculo-skeletal conditions, myofascial constriction and chronic pain, She has a thorough training in the use of acupuncture trigger point therapy and Oriental medical manipulation. In addition, Tamara focuses on remedial dietary therapy using a whole foods based diet as a vital aspect of any healing strategy. During her initial acupuncture training, she began to adapt the idea of food as an integral part of the optimal health paradigm and created seminars, cooking classes, and individual diets based on those premises. Over the past few years, she has taught holistic health and healing foods classes at the San Francisco Culinary Academy and at John F. Kennedy University and most recently for Whole Foods Market, Rainbow Grocery and the Embarcadero Farmer's Market. In addition, Tamara has completed over 17 years in Tibetan Buddhist meditation training, taught meditation for over five years on the east coast and brings her insight and experiences to her practice with techniques and suggestions for how to incorporate breathing and mindfulness into everyday life.
Tamara completed her undergraduate degree in psychology and holds two degrees in Chinese Medicine. She attended both Tristate College of Acupuncture in New York City and received her Master's degree from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine here in San Francisco.
Whole Foods, Mill Valley, November 11, 2003, 7pm-10pm
The Joy of Cooking with the Harvest Bounty
Come celebrate the world of cooking and healing with the foods of autumn. Tamara Wolfson, a licensed Chinese medical practitioner and chef will explore the mythology, medicinal value and culinary delights of this season of plenty. The talk will also include a sharing of our favorite recipes and samples of some delicious harvest foods!
Rainbow Grocery, San Francisco, November 19, 2003, 6:30pm-8pm
Healing Foods of The Harvest
Rainbow Grocery, San Francisco, December 17, 2003, 6:30pm-8pm
Warm Those Bones, The Winter Diet
Sur La Table, Berkeley, February 13, 2004
The World of Culinary Aphrodisiacs
- M.S., Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Zen Hospice Project, San Francisco
- Fourteenth Street Methadone Clinic, Oakland
- American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine's Community Clinic, San Francisco
- Completed intensive hospice volunteer training program.
- Maintained weekly hospice shift which consisted of direct caring for dying patients and monthly group meetings and process oriented interactions focussed around the death process.
- Degree in Acupuncture
- Sidney Hillman Health Center, New York, NY
- Integrative medical staff collaborating on full range of medical conditions and treatment strategies.
- B.S., Magna Cum Laude
- Dual Major: Mental Health and Research Psychology
- Editor, Asian Review
- Research assistant to Dr. Bruce Wexler and Dr. Steve Lazrove, Yale University.
- Responsible for data collection for a psychiatric study on the efficacy of clozapine on chronic, non-reactive schizophrenia.
- Conducted weekly neuro-psychological tests such as the dichotic listening test and the wisconsin card-sorting test to a sample of severely ill patients at Connecticut Valley State Mental Hospital.
- Assisted with data input and initial statistical analysis.
National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine California State Acupuncture Board, License #9117
California State Oriental Medical Association
- 774 7th Avenue @ Fulton
- Lecturer, Holistic Health Studies Department, Chinese medical studies and nutrition.
- Weekly drop-off of vegetarian meals for Bartolo Maymone.
- Event organization and catering for large and small groups.
- Coordinated national and local marketing campaign.
- Assisted in composing the school's accreditation report.
- Maintained student records.
- Chef Instructor, vegetarian cooking and healing foods classes.
- Maintained student records.
- Wrote quarterly articles on subjects ranging from nutritional health to Chinese medicine.
- Member of strategic planning committee for center's initial opening.
- Designed the center's marketing logo and supported initial marketing and grant writing initiatives.
- Established massage practice combining deep-tissue and shiatsu bodywork protocols.
- Established alternative medical practice that combined acupuncture, Oriental bodywork, moxibustion, Chinese herbal prescriptions and Chinese dietary therapy.
- Generated a practice of over 200 clients.
- Coordinated local marketing and Oriental medical education campaign.
- Maintained accounting for the business including both treatment and herbal sales.
- Designed and taught nutritional seminars entitled "Food for Life."
- Facilitated a monthly wellness-based relaxation and meditation program.
Executive Committee, Resident Teacher
- Extensive kitchen management and cooking for 15 full-time meditators.
- Prepared weekly meals for approximately 50 practitioners.
- Coordinated and catered meals for several large gatherings of over 100 people.
- Designed lecture series: "Health and Awareness;" "The Roots of Prejudice;" and "Healing With Whole Foods."
- Authored two published articles: "Awareness and the Spiritual Adventure," and "Awareness Practice in Everyday Life."
- Wrote and secured 501(c)(3) non-profit status for the organization.
- Directed and supervised national ad campaign.
- Organized fundraisers for new centers in India and Brazil.
- Planned and coordinated annual international conference including expediting visas, and scheduling events.
- Created study plans and taught monthly book courses.
- Editor of monthly newsletter and wrote monthly column on various health related issues.
- Prepared weekly in home meals for Hadley Manning's.
- Research assistant to Dr. James Mazer, SCSU.
- Conducted daily experimental procedures using the Skinner box.
- Utilized various computer based conditioning programs to initiate research protocols.
- Recorded data and performed statistical analysis.
- Maintained laboratory and animal care standards.
- Lecture, Oriental Medicine in Everyday Life
- Lecture, Introduction to Oriental Medicine
- Lecture, Remedial Dietary Therapy in Oriental Medicine
- Lecture, Cooking with Spring Foods
- Monthy Lecture Series on Cooking with Healing Foods
- Lecture, Cooking with Summer Foods
- Lecture, Peaches and the Garden of Immortality
- Lecture, Fragrant Steam Rising: foods of Late Summer
- Lecture, Healing with Whole Foods
- Lecture, Obesity Panel
- Lecture, Cooking with Tea
- Co-instructor for public speaking course offered to resident inmates.