Pain MD - Acupuncture / Internal Medicine at UCLA

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dr. Andrew Shubov is the director of the inpatient East-West medicine consult service at UCLA. As part of the service, he and other East-West medicine physicians provide acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic and treatment strategies to critically ill hospitalized patients. He also works in the outpatient setting to bring integrative East-West medicine to complex patients with multiple medical conditions. He is board certified both in Internal Medicine and Integrative Medicine. Dr. Shubov believes that the integrative East-West approach is an excellent companion to traditional Western medicine, as it incorporates the treatment of the whole patient and minimizes side effects of common modern therapies. He frequently works with patients who have chronic conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune disorders and chronic pain. Dr. Shubov obtained his medical degree from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, and completed his internal medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He then completed his integrative medicine fellowship at the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Shubov is an associate clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is involved in research on transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on acupuncture points, and was was the lead investigator on the MACH-19 trials, which were an FDA approved series of studies on the use of Traditional Herbal Medicine and medical mushrooms for COVID-19. He teaches at the UCLA Medical School and the UCLA School of Dentistry.