Jake Paul Fratkin OMD LAc 

Jake Paul Fratkin has been a Doctor of Oriental Medicine since 1978, utilizing Chinese herbal medicine, Japanese meridian balancing acupuncture and nutritional medicine. His training included ten months advanced hospital work in Beijing. He is the author of CHINESE HERBAL PATENT MEDICINES: THE CLINICAL DESK REFERENCE (2001), a work on 1280 available Chinese herbal patent medicines, and was the editor-organizer of Wu and Fischer’s PRACTICAL THERAPEUTICS OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (Paradigm Publications, 1997).

Jake was awarded ACUPUNCTURIST OF THE YEAR in 1999 by the American Association of Oriental Medicine (AAOM), and TEACHER OF THE YEAR, 2006, by the American Association of Teachers of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AATAOM) Dr. Fratkin is in private practice in Boulder, Colorado where he specializes in internal disorders, infections and pediatrics.