WINTER 2024 NEWSLETTER

The Acupuncture Association of Missouri’s

Winter 2024 Newsletter

"Harmonizing the Ying and Wei in Missouri since 1988."

Providing educational and networking opportunities to practitioners while staying vigilant to external forces affecting our profession.

Executive Committee:

Lindsey Perkins, President

Jennifer Kung, Treasurer

Traci Bredenkamp, Secretary, Vice-President

Hello Fellow Acupuncture Medicine Community!

Welcome to 2024! We here at the AAM are looking forward to offering a strong year of advocacy, support, representation, educational, and social opportunities to all our members of the AAM as well as for all our Licensed Acupuncture & Acupuncture Medicine professionals here in the state of Missouri. Your membership in our professional organization greatly supports and sustains us as a volunteer-run organization. Thank you for your membership and donations!

For those of you who are new to practicing in the state of MO, and for those of you who are long time practitioners who might not be aware of how much our Missouri professional numbers have changed in the past handful of years, our AAM membership is now at 50 members with the number of practicing Licensed Acupuncturists in the state of MO at around 150 licenses and growing!

This is great news for the availability of Acupuncture Medicine for Missourians! This also is prime time for Acupuncturists and Acupuncture Medicine practitioners in MO to increase our professional advocacy, communication, and representation.

One wonderful way to ensure our profession remains recognized for its medical excellence and accessible to our current patients and potential new patients is by joining our state organization. AAM is our state professional Acupuncture organization which answers to and is a part of our national Acupuncture & Acupuncture Medicine professional organization: the American Society of Acupuncturists (ASA). If you haven’t yet joined or RENEWED your AAM membership for 2024, please visit https://www.missouriacupuncture.org/membership and continue supporting your state led Acupuncture & Acupuncture Medicine Professional Organization! 

OUR 2024 LUNAR NEW YEAR is almost upon us!!

We invite you to come participate in the celebration!

As many of you know, AAM’s Kansas City representatives host a yearly Lunar New Year celebration. In addition to the banquet styled dinner and chance to socialize with fellow Acupuncturist’s and Acupuncture Medicine Practitioners in MO, this year we are offering MO CEU’s and a lecture given by Dr. Holly Battrum, DACM entitled “Why the Will Isn't Always the Way”.

Date: Saturday, March 2, 2024

Lecture: 1:30-3pm

Location: Centered Spirit

8131 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO 64114

Cost: $65

Banquet: Happy Hour 5-5:45pm, Dinner 6pm

Location: Princess Garden

8906 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO 64114

Cost: $60

Register before February 17th for an Early Bird Rate of $110

Register at:

 2024 AAM Lunar New Year Banquet & CEU Event (constantcontact.com)

If you have an item you’d like to donate for the raffle or have any questions about registration, please email Jennifer Kung at jkung@elementsacm.com.

For STL practitioners: Email Kade at GoldenOakAcupuncture@gmail.com if you are interested in carpooling from the St. Louis area to KC for the event. Traci has kindly volunteered to transport 6 folks in her minivan and if we have a larger response, we can add another vehicle and driver to support everyone interested!

We look forward to seeing you in March!

Thank you to all the members who completed our 2023 survey about AAM membership involvement. This has been crucial for the AAM Board to know who we are representing and what our constituents want. In addition, it helps us plan future events, communication avenues, and know where our resources lay in order to better organize, communicate, & effectively represent the Acupuncture Medicine community in Missouri! Thanks to the 18 members who completed this survey. If you are interested in still filling it out and providing us feedback, I will keep the link active for a few more weeks until 2/24/24. Click on this link to complete your survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JXBJ6GM 

The following are some upcoming dates and events relevant to the Acupuncture profession for you to keep a note of: 

• Lunar New Year celebration in KC March 2, 2024 (see above for links) 
• Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis Zoom Class with Dr. Monica Brown, DSOM, April 4, 2024 @6:30pm (sign up email and link will be sent out this next month) 
•  Jefferson City lobbying (information and signup will be sent via email in the next few weeks)- Tuesday March 12th, Wednesday March 13th and Wednesday April 3rd, 2024  

(If you have an Acupuncture Medicine related event, lecture, workshop, gathering, offering, etc, and would like it listed for other Missouri Acupuncture professionals to be aware of, please email our Membership Committee Chair, and current newsletter writer, Kade Stotler at GoldenOakAcupuncture@gmail.com with the subject “include in AAM newsletter SAVE THE DATE”. Newsletters are currently only going out quarterly-with the next expected around April 2024 covering April-June. If anyone is interested in taking on a more active role in AAM and writing more frequent monthly newsletters, please also email Kade with subject “AAM Volunteer NEWSLETTER AUTHOR!”) 

SUPPORT THE AAM 

The mission of the Acupuncture Association of Missouri (AAM) is: 

• To educate the public as to the value of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in enhancing general public health and welfare; 
• To provide an organizational forum for acupuncturists and practitioners of Oriental Medicine in the state of Missouri; and 
• To provide for the continuing professional education of its members. 

Thank you! Looking forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming events!  

Warmly, 



Kade Stotler DACM, MSOM, L.Ac (They, Them)

AAM Membership Committee Chair  

Acupuncture Association of Missouri

missouriacupuncture.org