Brendan Armm, DAOM, LAc - Founder/Director

Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

Dr. Armm is a board-certified Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicinal Herbalist both in the state of California and nationally. He is among fewer than fifty practitioners nationally to have completed a first of its kind clinical Doctorate in Orthopedics, Pain Management and Integrative Medicine. In addition to Dr. Armm’s practice with and founding Lotus East-West Medical Center, he teaches Oriental medicine and meditation to the master level students at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine.

While becoming a licensed acupuncturist, he was named “Student of the Year,” an award presented by the American Association of Oriental Medicine given only to the top student in the country. To enhance his clinical education, Dr. Armm completed a year long doctoral fellowship at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles, a two year internship under Dr. Zhiyou Qiu, LAc, MD (China) at Emperor’s Doctoral Pain Management Clinic in Santa Monica, and an externship at the Venice Family Clinic. He graduated at the top of his class at both Emperor’s College and Wesleyan University receiving both schools’ highest honors.

Originally from Connecticut, Dr. Armm comes from a family of doctors. He grew up pursuing his western medical dream including assisting in the emergency room at Bridgeport’s St. Vincent’s Hospital, performing research in Immunology and Dermatology at Yale University School of Medicine, shadowing a Cardiologist at Bridgeport Hospital, and working in his father’s Urological private practice.

Being exposed to disease and suffering led Dr. Armm to the practice of meditation to cultivate compassion. Over the next six years, he embodied the value of treating the whole individual and not just the disease. Then, a six-month journey through India opened his eyes and heart to the multitude of holistic healing modalities available around the world. It was also by virtue of other holistic healers that Dr. Armm moved to Santa Monica to study Chinese Medicine at Emperor’s College.

Dr. Armm’s passion extends to other healing modalities including Meditation, Yoga, Ayurvedic Medicine, Tibetan Medicine, Tui-na Massage, Homeopathics, Flower Essences, Aromatherapy, and Sound Therapy. Dr. Armm lives in Santa Monica and enjoys traveling to India, Nepal, China, and Tibet and silent meditation retreats both in America and abroad.

He is a member of American Acupuncture Council, American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Acupuncture and Integrated Medicine Specialists, and California State Oriental Medical Association. He writes for Acupuncture Today, has written for California Journal of Oriental Medicine and is politically active in the advancement of the Oriental medical field.

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Expertise Include:

• Pain management and orthopedics
• Integrative medicine
• Gastro-intestinal disorders and diet/nutritional counseling
• Anxiety, fatigue, addictions, stress reduction
• Immune/allergy disorders