Associate Professor Chris Zaslawski
Director
College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Associate Head of Department
Department of Medical and Biomolecular Sciences
Faculty of Science
University of Technology, Sydney
Associate Professor Chris Zaslawski is currently Director of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Associate Head of School, (Medical and Molecular Biosciences) at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has been practising acupuncture for 31 years and is also a physiotherapist. He has been a short term consultant for the World Health Organisation for a number of acupuncture related projects in the areas of education, research and clinical practice guidelines. Chris is an active researcher in the areas of acupuncture and pain, acupuncture clinical research design and human research ethics. He has been involved in several acupuncture clinical trials on stress, male subfertility, hepatitis C, lateral elbow pain and has just had published a Delphi study on a rating scale for assessing the adequacy of acupuncture in clinical trials. Chris has also been English editor for three acupuncture texts, which were published in conjunction with Chinese medicine colleagues from the Guangzhou University of Traditional Medicine and has published 25 papers of which 19 were in peer reviewed journals. He is also deputy editor of the Australian Journal of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, Australia’s only peer reviewed journal on acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. In addition he is also on several journal international editorial boards including Acupuncture Research and Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science and is also one of four reviewers for the AMS Awards sponsored by the Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Science. More recently he has also been involved in the development of international standards for TCM within the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and is the chair of the national Australian mirror committee for Chinese medicine for Standards Australia. Chris's research interests and area of expertise are in clinical trial methodology for acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture and pain and human research ethics.
Qualifications
Diploma of Acupuncture, Acupuncture Colleges, Australia, 1982.
Graduate Diploma of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Australian College of Oriental Medicine, 1989.
Advanced Certificate of Acupuncture, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chines Medicine, China, 1986, 1996, 1998.
Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy), University of Sydney, 1991.
Master of Health Science Education, University of Sydney, 1995.
Doctor of Philosophy (Science), University of Technology, Sydney, 2006.
Publications
Zaslawski, C. (1997). Aspects of Clinical Reasoning in the Practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine. European Journal of Oriental Medicine, 2, (3), p. 8-14.
Zaslawski, C., Rogers, C., Garvey, M., Yang, C.X., Ryan, D. and Zhang, S.P. (1997). Strategies to enhance the efficacy of sham acupuncture used as a control treatment in acupuncture clinical trials. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 3,(3), p. 257-266.
Zaslawski, C., Rogers, C., Garvey, M., Yang, C.X., Ryan, D. and Zhang, S.P. (1997). Author’s Response to Letters to the Editor. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 3,(4), p. 317-320.
Garvey, M., Rogers, C., Yang, C.X., Ryan, D. and Zaslawski, C. (1997). Towards Development of Appropriate Clinical Trial Methodology for Acupuncture: Considerations and Design of a Research Project on Stress. American Journal of Acupuncture, 25, (2/3) p. 161-165.
Zaslawski, C. (1997). Clinical Reasoning and Category Identification (Bian Zheng) in Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Implications for Development of Educational Strategies. American Journal of Acupuncture, 25, (2/3), p. 153-160.
Zaslawski, C. (1998). Narrative aspects of clinical reasoning in acupuncture. Meeting Point, 7, p.2-6.
Aird, M., Coyle, M., Cobbin, D. and Zaslawski, C.J. (2000). A Study of the Accuracy of Two Methods of Locating Acupuncture Points. Acupuncture in Medicine, 18, (1),p.15-21.
Coyle, M., Aird, M., Cobbin, D. and Zaslawski, C.J. (2000). The Cun Measurement System: An Investigation into its Suitability in Current Practice. Acupuncture in Medicine, 18, (1), p. 10-14.
MacPherson, H., Sherman, K., Hammerschlag, R., Birch, S., Lao, L. and Zaslawski, C. (2002).The clinical evaluation of traditional East Asian systems of medicine. Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, 3, 1, p.16-19.
Birch, S., Hammerschlag, R., Trinh, K. and Zaslawski, C. (2002). The non-specific effects of acupuncture treatment: When and how to control for them. Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, 3, 1, p.20-25.
Zaslawski, C., Cobbin, D. Lidums. E. and Petocz, P. (2003). A randomised single blind study of the effects of site and magnitude of needle manipulation associated with acupuncture on pain pressure threshold. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 7, 1, p.11-21.
Zaslawski, C. (2003) The Impact of Ethics on the Development and Conduct of Acupuncture Clinical Trials. Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, 4/4 pp. 121-126.
Zaslawski, C. (2003) Clinical Reasoning in traditional Chinese medicine: implications for clinical research. Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, 4 2/3 p. 94-101.
Zaslawski, C. and Davis, S. (2005) The ethics of complementary and alternative medicine research: a case study of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the University of Technology, Sydney. Monash Bioethics Review, 24, 3 p.52-61.
White, P., Golianu, B., Zaslawski, C. and Choi S-H. (2006) Standardization of Nomenclature in Acupuncture Research (SoNAR) Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2006; 4, 2, p.267-270.
Kim, M., Cobbin, D. and Zaslawski, C. (2008) Traditional Chinese medicine tongue inspection: an examination of the inter- and intrapractitioner reliability for specific tongue characteristics. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 2008 Jun;14(5):527-36.
Li, W-H., Cobbin, D. and Zaslawski, C. (2008) A comparison of effects on regional pressure pain threshold produced by deep needling of LI4 and LI11, individually and in combination. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 14 (5):527-36.
Zaslawski, C. (2008) The influence of cross-cultural research ethics on Chinese
medicine clinical trial design, Authenticity, best practice, and the evidence mosaic: The challenge of integrating traditional East Asian medicines into Western Health Care.University of Westminster, London. Abstract published in Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 16, (4) p.233-237.
Berle C, Zaslawski, C, Cobbin, D. and Smith, N. (2010) A Novel Outcome Measure for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine Clinical Trials. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 16 (4): 357-367.
Berle C, Zaslawski, C, Cobbin, D. and Smith, N. (2010) Response to Cox-North's comments on A novel approach to evaluate TCM treatment outcomes using pattern identificationJournal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 16 (11): 113.
Zaslawski, C. (2010) Ethical Considerations for Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine Clinical Trials-A Cross Cultural Perspective. Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 7 (3): 295-301.
Fogarty S., Harris D., Zaslawski C., McAinch A. and Stojanovska L. (2010) Acupuncture as an adjunct therapy in the treatment of eating disorders: A randomised cross-over pilot study. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 18 (6):233-40.
Stojanovska L, Fogarty S., Harris D., Zaslawski C. and McAinch A. (2011) Development of a Chinese Medicine Pattern Severity Index for Understanding Eating Disorders. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (accepted for publication).
Smith, C., Zaslawski, C., Zheng., Z, Cobbin, D., Cochrane, S., Lenon, G., Loyeung, B., Meier, P., Walsh, S., Xue, C., Zhang, A., Zhu, X., and Bensoussan, A. (2011) Development of an instrument to assess the quality of acupuncture: results from a Delphi process. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 17 (5), 441-452.
Berle C, Zaslawski, C, Cobbin, D. and Smith, N. (2011) An Innovative Method to Accommodate Chinese Medicine Pattern Diagnosis within the Framework of Evidence-based Medical Research. Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine ; Nov;17(11):
BOOK/CHAPTER PUBLICATIONS
Dai, W-J., Xie, J-H., Li, D-S., Min, S., and Su, H-R. (Eds.) Zaslawski, C.J. (Ed. Abroad). (1996). Therapeutics of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. Hong Kong: Medicine and Health Publishing Company.
Min, S., Su, H-R., Xie, J-H., Tai, W-J. and Sheng, L-D. (Eds). Zaslawski, C.J. (Ed. Abroad). (1997). The Foundation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. (1997). Hong Kong: Medicine and Health Publishing Company.
Li, D-S. and Min, S, (Eds.) Zaslawski, C.J. (Ed Abroad). (1999). Acupuncture-Moxibustion. University Textbooks of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Overseas Advanced Students. Beijing: Peoples Medical Publishing House.
Zaslawski, C.J. and Lee, M-Y. (2011) International standardization of East Asian medicine: the quest for modernization. In Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare. V. Scheid and H. MacPherson (Eds). Elsevier.
Zaslawski, C.J. (2012) An Evidence-based Review of Acupuncture as an Adjunctive Therapy in Comprehensive Cancer Care in The Primo Vascular System Its Role in Cancer and Regeneration Soh, Kwang-Sup; Kang, Kyung A.; Harrison, David K (Eds.) Springer.