William Morris is the president and CEO of the Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin. His mission is the acculturation of Chinese medicine in America.
Morris is the former president of the American Association of Oriental Medicine (AAOM), a national professional association of licensed Oriental medical practitioners. He led the merger of the AAOM with the Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance, creating a single, national professional association: the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM). His drive and determination as well as his leadership and ability to build trust created an atmosphere where this unification was possible.
Morris is responsible for the development of two doctorate of acupuncture and Oriental medicine programs, one at Emperor’s College and the other at SAMRA University. He has continually pursued education in order to further the field. He earned a certificate in traditional Oriental medicine in 1986, and a state approved doctorate in Oriental medicine from SAMRA in 1988. When the accredited masters in Oriental medicine became available, he obtained that degree in 1990. Morris also received a master of science in medical education from the University of Southern California in 2004, and the most recent doctorate in acupuncture and Oriental medicine in 2006 from Emperor's College. In 2008 he completed a PhD program in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He considers the most important studies in his career to be his eight year mentorship under Leon Hammer in the Menghe through the Ding family lineage of internal medicine. Morris also spent five years studying under Neiqiang Gu in the Gu family external medicine lineage.
With twenty-five years of focus on pulse diagnosis, his current work involves a synthesis of standard, family and classical systems of pulse diagnosis. In addition to leading the institution, Morris periodically instructs special seminars in pulse diagnosis.
