Cameron Bishop M.Ac AP

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After graduating Seattle Pacific University with a degree in Psychology and Anthropology(1988), Cameron lived, worked and studied in Japan for four years learning both healing and martial arts. Upon his return, he furthered his studies at NIAOM graduating with an accredited Masters in Acupuncture(1996). He also received a "Japanese Acupuncture Certificate", and a three year Daoist "Qi Gong Certificate" from NIAOM(1996). He has studied intensively with Japanese masters in Japan.  He also graduated from the "Advanced Toyohari Acupuncture Training Program" in Amsterdam. Cameron is a board certified diplomate of the NCCAOM (#7152), and licensed in the State of the Florida (AP762). He is currently a doctoral candidate (DAOM) at the one of the oldest, and well known "American College of Traditional Oriental Medicine" in San Francisco. He is specializing in "Women's Health" and "Pain Management". He has also trained at Yue Yang Hospital of Integrative Medicine and Yang Pu District Central Hospital in Shanghai, China.


He has been in practice since 1996 and spent over five years working in a western medical family practice office before venturing on his own. He has worked in US, Chinese and Japanese hospitals, and US medical, and chiropractic offices. His current office is a quiet oasis within a former house now zoned professional on Federal Highway near the intercoastal. Cameron's style of acupuncture combines the experience, intuitions, and grounded education in American, Korean, Chinese and Japanese traditions of acupuncture. He has trained in the US, and Japan in Five Phase (Element) Acupuncture, meditation and Qi Gong (kiko).

Cameron is the "Professor of Japanese Acupuncture" at Atlantic College of Oriental Medicine and is an "Authorized Instructor" in Toyohari Acupuncture for the Toyohari Association of Japan. He is a President of the Toyohari Association of Florida, and former Vice President of both the Toyohari Association of North America, and Florida State Oriental Medical Association. He is a founding member of both the Florida and Seattle Branches of the Toyohari Association, and has taught in many of the Toyohari Training Programs across the country. He has been published numerous times and many of his articles are on this website.

Cameron currently teaches Miyamoto Musashi's sword style that he learned in Kumamoto, Japan at the Musashi Dojo. He also earned a second degree black belt in Seidoryu Shobukan Aikido and is licensed to teach (Menkyo- Shidoin). He returns frequently to study both healing and meditative arts.