<Tr> <Th> Affiliations </Th> <Td> Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.acchs.edu </Td> </Tr> <P> The Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences, established in 1982, is a private, nonprofit graduate institution located in Oakland, California . The school was the first in Oakland and the second in the United States to offer education in Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM . Also, the school is the third oldest school in the county to offer education in TCM . </P> <P> In 1982, Master Wei Tsuei (1926--2010) was a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tai chi meditation, and Qigong . At the time, he operated the Taoist Center, which was a nonprofit organization focused on educating people about Taiji, TCM, Tai chi, and Qigong . He founded the Academy with a goal of educating the Western (American) world about the Chinese culture, as well as these philosophies, in order to close the gap between the two cultures . </P>

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