License #198.000438

Inna Melnikov, DACM, NCCAOM National Board Certified, LAc, is an acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medical physician. She has been a practitioner of Integrative Medicine forever 20 years. Inna started practicing Integrative Medicine more than 2 decades ago at one of the large outpatient hospital clinics in Moscow, Russia. While working there, she traveled with a group of doctors to practice Integrative Medicine in the Caucasus mountain region, Northern Russia, and Siberia. For her achievements in developing and implementation of Integrative Medicine in Russia, Inna Melnikov was awarded a membership in the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1991. To continue her educational path in medicine, Inna moved the United States in 1992. She studied Western Medical Sciences at the National University of Health Sciences, and later continued her doctoral studies at the Pacific College of Health and Science. After many years working in private practice, Inna Melnikov felt that she would like to share her knowledge. As a faculty member of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and a clinic supervisor at the Pacific College of Health and Science in Chicago, she got the chance to do that. Inna spent seven years working at PCHS, and later returned to her alma-mater, the National University of Health Sciences, to teach postgraduate programs. Now, she enjoys the best of both worlds by teaching continuing education seminars for medical professionals and medical students throughout the United States, and treating her patients with Acupuncture and Chinese Pharmaceutical Herbs. Inna Melnikov is known for her advocacy for health policy chang, environmental health and eliminating environmental hazards at home. Eastern Philosophy and practice of Oriental Medicine are important parts of her life. Inna Melnikov, DACM, NCCAOM National Board Certified, LAc, considers her family, mentors, teachers, colleagues, patients, and friends as her major inspiration, and looks forward to the opportunities to give it back.