Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin

Faculty Member, Clinical Education

President

Thesis Title: Chinese Pulse Diagnosis: Epistemology, Practice and Tradition

About

William Morris, is the president and CEO of AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine. He now serves as president emeritus to the AAAOM. His mission is the acculturation of Chinese medicine in America.

Will’s presidency of the AAAOM was focused on merging the two national associations. His drive and determination as well as his leadership and ability to build trust created an atmosphere where the AOMAlliance the AAOM could consider a merger to be a real possibility. The theme of Will’s presidency was the Great Unification. And we have succeeded.

Morris is responsible for the development of two Doctorate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine programs, one at Emperor’s College and the other at SAMRA University. He has continually pursued education in order to further the field. He earned a Certificate in Traditional Oriental Medicine (TOM) in 1986, and a state approved Doctorate in Oriental Medicine from SAMRA in 1988. When the accredited masters in Oriental Medicine became available, he obtained that degree in 1990. Dr. Morris received an MS in Medical Education from USC in 2004, and the most recent Doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) in 2006. He is currently in a Ph.D. program in Transformative Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies. However, Dr. Morris considers the most important studies in his career to be unauthorized by the state. These included his eight year mentorship under Leon Hammer in the Menghe current through the Ding family lineage of internal medicine: he also spent five years studying under Neiqiang Gu in the Gu family external medicine lineage. 

With twenty-five years of focus on pulse diagnosis, his current work involves a synthesis of standard, family and classical systems of pulse diagnosis.

His current academic efforts focus on Alternative Medical Epistemology. Using a cybernetic, dialectical, zig-zag ladder of form and process, the construction of  medical knowing may be unpacked and analyzed as to its levels and interactions of description, abstraction, theoretical form, and practice. This project emphasizes the formal disclosure of recursive process embodied in the philosophy and practice of Chinese medicine, with particular interest in the performance of Chinese pulse diagnosis.

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