Jerry M. Kantor

Jerry M. Kantor is the author of the acclaimed, Interpreting Chronic Illness, the Convergence of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy and Biomedicine; The Toxic Relationship Cure, Curing Traumatic Damage from a boss, parent, lover or friend with natural, drug-free remedies; Sane Asylums, the Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind and; The Emotional roots of Chronic Illness, Homeopathy For Existential Stress. His book Autism Reversal Toolbox, Strategies, Remedies, Resources expands upon Tinus Smits’ protocol that utilizes a homeopathic/isopathic approach to autism spectrum disorders. Under the pseudonym Chaim Yankel he has written Heymischer Homeopathy, the Schmendrick’s Guide to Remedying Yiddish Kvetches. Mr. Kantor whose publishing house is Right Whale Press is principal owner of Vital Force Health Care, a homeopathy and acupuncture practice, he specializes in pediatrics, mental illness, and autoimmune conditions, appetite disorders and infertility. He is a former Board member of of the Council for Homeopathic Certification. He was the first acupuncturist with an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School’s department of Anesthesiology. Mr. Kantor’s discussion of Acupuncture in the Context of Pain Management has been published in the New England Journal of Pain Management. Portions of it have also been published on the Brigham and Womens’ Hospital’s Pain Management Services website. He has developed or participated in acupuncture research design in regard to hemophilia, asthma, and neck pain. A prominent commentator on the integration of alternative and conventional medicine in America, Mr. Kantor is one of the earliest members of the medical community to forcefully argue, in print, that the standard clinical research protocol should be modified with respect to holistic modalities. Mr. Kantor developed protocols described in, Integrative Medicine Guideline for the Treatment of Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain for Tapestry Health Care, where he served as Clinical Director for Complementary Care Modalities. Jerry Kantor is a former Acupuncture Director of the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Pain and Stress Relief Clinic in Jamaica Plain, MA. Mr. Kantor is a graduate of the Nanjing College of Traditional Medicine’s Advanced Acupuncture Program for Foreign Students and of the New England School of Acupuncture, Watertown, MA where he studied with the school’s founder, Dr. James Tin Yao So. In 2001 Mr. Kantor renewed a fifteen-year relationship with medical Qi Gong practice by participating in an intensive training seminar at Xiyuan Traditional Hospital in Beijing, with Prof. Lu Guanjun, prominently featured on the Bill Moyers’ “Healing and the Mind” television special. In addition to practicing and teaching Qi Gong, Mr. Kantor practices tai qi and holds a fourth-degree black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido. His non-medical writings, spanning topics ranging from chess to non-profit organization tax law, have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Village Voice and other publications.