Yiming Wang majored in traditional Chinese medicine at the Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Beijing, China, and received a diploma that is an equivalent of a Bachelor of Science degree in the States. She received both Western and Chinese medical training there. She has worked in medicine since the early 1970's, and lectured as associate professor at the Beijing College of TCM in China. She taught basic theories of TCM, the science of TCM formulas and acupuncture theory at the undergraduate level.
From the mid-1970's to 1991 Yiming Wang was a doctor of TCM and clinical practice and an acupuncturist in China. She has worked on laboratory experiments in basic theories of TCM for 10 years, and participated in a study project on application of TCM to genetic/biological methodology in anti-AIDS, anti-cancer, and anti-magnetic field damage efforts at the Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In China she was an examiner of the National Study Program in TCM and an associate professor of TCM, specializing in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. To help Western medical students to understand Eastern medicine and acupuncture, she has directed a televised documentary: "Phlegm and Water". Yiming Wang has authored 6 books and 30 papers on the subject of Chinese acupuncture and herbal medicine in China. Some of her books include:
In 1991 she came to the United States and practiced acupuncture while teaching acupuncture/herbology at the Beijing School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1992 she moved to Richardson and began a private practice in acupuncture and herbology. She is a licensed acupuncturist and an Oriental Medical Doctor. Currently in the US she is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in the state of Texas and a National Board Diplomate of Herbology. She is also an item writer for the Chinese herbology exam for the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncture (NCCA).
In the United States she has taught acupuncture and Chinese medicine in the Dallas Institute of Chinese Medicine in Richardson and several of her students have received state acupuncture licenses. She has taught Chinese medicine at the Third Coast Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and a seminar on acupuncture at Richland College of Dallas. She has also been invited to several other seminars to teach acupuncture and herbal medicine.
Yiming Wang's current areas of expertise include clinical practice of acupuncture and moxibustion as an acupuncturist and a doctor of TCM; laboratory experiments in basic theories of TCM; and textual research on and literary translation of ancient Chinese medical literature. She advocates the integration of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine as a philosophy of health-care.
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