Dr. Yu Weidong, a Chinese medicine practitioner, graduated from Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1983 and obtained a master’s degree in public health from the Medical School of the Free University of Brussels, Belgium in 1991. He has worked as a Chinese and Western medicine practitioner at the Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical College, and has also worked as an assistant researcher at the China University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing, a Chinese medicine research institute. Dr. Yu has received acupuncture and Chinese medicine treatments in Belgium, the United States and Canada. Dr. Yu founded the Wellspring Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Wellspring Holistic Medicine Clinic (https://tcmrp.com/) in Vancouver, Canada in 1997. Dr. Yu is also the author of more than 30 publications in Chinese and English medical literature and lectures internationally.
Dr. Yu is a Chinese medicine expert in fundus diseases. His clinic is one of the few specialist clinics overseas that specialises in the treatment of Retinitis Pigmentosa – having served patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa from 46 countries including Canada, the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Israel, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Greece, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, India, New Zealand, Serbia, South Africa, Kuwait, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, etc.
Dr. Yu is the former President of the Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Practitioners of British Columbia (ATCMA). He is currently a member of the Executive Council of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS), a consultant for the World Health Organization Clinical Guidelines on Acupuncture, a member of the Board of Directors of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of British Columbia (https://www.ctcma.bc.ca/), Vice President of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Practitioners, and Chairman of the Springwell Charitable Foundation. He is the deputy director of the WFCMS International Cooperation Center for Clinical Research on Traditional Chinese Medicine in Canada. He is also a consultant to the Canadian Institute of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
With training in Chinese medicine, Western medicine and public health, and especially a solid understanding of the TCM theory of the Five Movements and Six Qi, Dr. Yu predicted in November 2019 that Yibing disease could break out in the spring of 2020 – an early warning. After conducting in-depth and systematic research on the etiology, pathogenesis, and development of the epidemic, he proposed the “five lines of defense” principle for preventing and controlling the epidemic. He advocated that traditional Chinese medicine should be involved in the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic by strengthening the body, promoting health, reducing morbidity, slowing disease progression, and promoting clinical recovery.