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About the Director

Marsha Woolf is the founder and director of the New World Medical Centre and Alternative Resources Unlimited, Inc. II (A non-profit organization) which has offices in Massachusetts and New York. Initiatives established under the auspices of Alternative Resources are the Tibetan Refugee Health Care Project, Menla Tibetan Medical Institute and Menla Research Initiative.

She has practiced Natural Medicine for 33 years, specializing in Chinese (1975) and Tibetan Medicine (1981) with a focus on treating Cancer and the immune system. Inspired by an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Spring, 1983, Marsha Woolf traveled to Tibetan refugee resettlements in India and subsequently on to Tibet. Having witnessed first hand the enormity of the suffering of the Tibetan people, she has committed herself to their health and well-being for the last 25 years.

She has studied with many well-known teachers such as Dr. So Tin Yau, Hong Kong, founder of the New England School of Acupuncture, the first licensed school for acupuncture in the U.S.; Michio Kushi, Boston; Dr. Tatsuzo Nakamura, Japan; Dr. Ted Kaptchuk, Cambridge; and Dr. Paul Nogier, France. Her most recent teacher for the last 27 years is Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, personal physician to His Holiness the Dalai Lama (1960-1980). Her interest in all areas of indigenous and alternative healing practices has led her to study and practice in Europe, Central and South America, India and the Far East.

In 1995, she founded Menla Tibetan Medical Institute, to further the work of Dr. Yeshi Dhonden and to preserve the integrity of Tibetan medicine through research and education. She is Co-Author, Clinical Director and Liaison between Western scientists and physicians and Dr. Yeshi Dhonden on the first FDA Approved studies in the world assessing the efficacy of Tibetan Medicine in the treatment of Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer.

She is collaborating as a principle investigator with MD Anderson Cancer Center on a larger follow-up trial of Metastatic Breast Cancer and Tibetan Medicine. She is the Clinical Director of an ongoing informal registry of hundreds of cancer patients. She is the author of "The Rainmaker" by Sigo Press, Boston to be reprinted in 2008, and the new Tibetan version to be released in 2008 by Wisdom's Way Press . Her newest book, "From Precious Pills to Precious Health" is forthcoming.