Claudia Citkovitz began her Chinese Medicine studies in 1997, assisting in the practice of Tom Bisio while attending Pacific and Tri-State Colleges.  She also studied at the Beijing Language and Cultural Institute in China.  She is currently in private practice at the White Pine Clinic in Amherst, Massachusetts.

For 17 years, Claudia was Preceptor and Director of the Acupuncture Program at Lutheran Medical Center (now NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn), a 466-bed community hospital in Brooklyn, NY.  Through the program, she treated inpatients in the Neurological/Orthopedic Rehabilitation and Labor and Delivery units as well as pain and cancer patients throughout the hospital, training over 300 acupuncture students and practitioners in the provision of evidence-informed inpatient acupuncture care. 

Claudia has been s a lecturer or clinical instructor at numerous Master's and Doctoral level acupuncture programs throughout the US as well as Europe and the UK. She has published research in acupuncture during Labor and Delivery and acupuncture research methods, and completed her PhD on acupuncture during stroke rehabilitation under Volker Scheid at the University of Westminster in London.  She is a peer reviewer and Editorial Board member of multiple journals, a Board Member of the Society for Acupuncture Research, and a Commissioner on the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine.

Claudia currently practices at White Pine Healing Arts in Amherst, MA, and in her nearby home office. She specializes in acupuncture, bodywork, movement and lifestyle medicine to address disorders of the central nervous system such as stroke and Parkinson’s disease.