Professor Fanyi Meng

Teacher

Fanyi is the programme leader of BSc (Hons) Acupuncture at Lincoln College and the University of Lincoln since 2004 in the United Kingdom (UK), the only one of state-sponsored academic and professional university degree courses in the UK. He started his Chinese medicine education in 1978 at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, and continued his training to become a Chinese medicine doctor. He was actively engaged in Chinese medicine clinical researches and got his Medical Bachelor Degree in 1990. Two years later he was promoted as an associate professor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine at the age of 32, one of the youngest to reach the rank of senior academics. He received 2 national awards from the researches he carried out during these years.
From 2000, Fanyi took the role of Clinic Director of Teaching Clinic of Middlesex University’s Chinese Medicine Programme in the UK. And in 2004, he moved to Lincoln to take the role of programme leader of BSc (Hons) Acupuncture.
During the past 15 years, Fanyi also worked for the University of Derby (BA Complementary Medicine), University of Wales (MSc Chinese Medicine), and University of Salford (BSc Chinese Medicine) as their External Examiner (independent quality controller), and gained extensive knowledge and experience in Chinese medicine education and researches.
Fanyi is an active member of many professional bodies, such as the Chair of the Educational Committee of Chines medicine, and was also a Board Member of both Chinese Medicine Accreditation Board and British Acupuncture Accreditation Board.
In teaching practice, Fanyi has been teaching Chinese medicine theory, Chinese medicine pulse study, acupuncture theory and practice, clinical subjects, and Chinese medical Tuina for the past 20 years.
Regarding research, the main areas are the research methods in acupuncture, the placebo effect, the mental problems, and male problems. More than 30 papers and 15 book/chapters were published.
Since 2008, Fanyi has been an external speaker for Beijing University of Chinese Medicine delivered more than 20 sessions of seminar/special lectures in a broad range of Chinese medicine.
Fanyi’s daily teaching and clinical practice are based at Lincoln College, United Kingdom.