Ivan Zavala, LAc, DCCM, LMT

Ivan Zavala II is the founder of Nirvana Acupuncture and specializes in autoimmune disease and internal medicine. He is currently the Department Head of Foundational Theory and Advanced Diagnostics and professor at Chicago College of Oriental Medicine, where he developed and taught several foundational classes and advanced herbalism and acupuncture methodologies and diagnostics. Ivan is also an international lecturer in Latin America, where he teaches Shang Han Lun and acupuncture. As a practitioner and professor of Chinese medicine, his interests lie in treating severe and complex disease with direct insight and guidance from the Chinese medical classics. Over the years, he has answered thousands of clinical and medical literature questions of practitioners from around the world, becoming a specialist in the illumination of the canonical corpus into practical application.

Ivan graduated from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine with an Associate of Science in 2012 and a Master of Science in Chinese Medicine in 2018. He attended Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts from 2013 to 2016 along with the Institute of Canonical East Asian Medicine from 2016 to 2018. Ivan has the passion to communicate with other professionals regarding important medical concepts that underpin various historical eras of Chinese medicine via live and pre-recorded online videos.