Brenda Loew, DAOM, Dipl.Ac. is a teaching associate in the Department of Family Medicine, Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Washington, Seattle, and provides acupuncture services at the UW Northgate Family Clinic. She also serves on the Planetary Health, Research, and Acupuncture Committees of the Osher Collaborative. Board certified through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) since 1991, she has over thirty years of clinical and teaching experience in acupuncture. In her private practice, she specializes in Japanese-style acupuncture for the whole family, including children and adolescents. She is interested in whole systems thinking and exploring the integration of complex, regenerative, living systems into allopathic medicine.