#10 Rockies to the Himalayas: An American Woman's Training Pursuits in Tibetan Medicine

Dr Nida in dialog with.. Dr. Tawni Tidwell, TMD,

Dr. Tawni Tidwell is a Tibetan medical doctor (Kachupa degree) and biocultural anthropologist (PhD, Emory University). She is the first Westerner to have formally completed her Tibetan medical education in a Tibetan institution alongside Tibetan peers. Dr. Tidwell trained at Men-Tsee-Khang in north India and at the Sorig Loling Tibetan Medical College of Qinghai University in eastern Tibet; the comprehensive five-year medical program followed by a one-year internship and subsequent apprenticeships with senior physicians across the Tibetan plateau. For her doctoral work, she trained under developmental neuroendocrinologist Carol Worthman and her research combined insights from Buddhist epistemology, biocultural anthropology and contemporary neuroscience to understand how Tibetan physicians learn to embody diagnostic practices, particularly for cancer and metabolic disorders. Previously at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna researching pharmacologic lineages in eastern Tibet and their constructs of potency, Dr. Tidwell is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Healthy Minds (Madison, WI) extending her work into an investigation of how Tibetan medicine understands physiologic, psychologic, and pharmacologic paradigms

25 FEBRUARY 2021 - LIVE

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