Graduate of Acupuncture Colleges Australia and University of Technology Sydney, Mark has additionally completed the Advanced Cert. Acupuncture, Guangzhou TCM University, China. Over a number of visits, Mark has continued study in China with Prof Chen, Prof Liu (Optimum Time for Acupuncture) and other prominent teachers of specialty and micro systems. Mark studied Chinese herbal medicine with the late Peter Townsend from 1992 and Prof Shan de Liu from 1994, while assisting in the administration of the Chinaherb (Subharti Dharmananda) correspondence course and the Cathay Herbal correspondence course.

Mark has directed research throughout India in search of “the lost secrets of Ayurvedic Acupuncture”, utilizing over ten years of Vedic science study, applied now in the pursuit of examining medical parallels between the classical cultures of India and China.

Mark also studied for a three month period with João Teixeira da Faria (John of God) in Abadiania, Brazil. Post graduate study includes the completion of certificate studies in Dr Chen Cao’s system of Ba Gua acupuncture, I Ching acupuncture and the Master Tong System of Acupuncture with Dr Robert Chu (Los Angeles).

Mark favours the use of painless treatment and has adopted techniques from a number of schools of thought, including Japanese acupuncture (Ideka Sensei) and the Five Element School (JR Wolseley).

He is influenced by the Shen Hammer system of pulse diagnosis and continues to assimilate and apply ongoing Neoclassical techniques of diagnosis and treatment.

In 2007, Mark was appointed an external advisor for the NHMRC (National Health and Medical Research Council) for CAM (Complimentary and Alternative Medicine).