After completing his Bachelor of Acupuncture in Australia, Mr. Staats has been in private practice since 1992. He completed post-graduate clinical studies in the teaching hospital of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine in Nanning, China. Following, he returned to China a further two times for continued clinical training in Beijing hospitals, as well studies in Shanghan Lun with Prof. Dr. Huang Huang.
Mr. Staats has interest in the Japanese disciplines of Chinese medicine and has been a student of both Ikeda sensei and Edward Obaidey sensei since 1996.
Mr Staats has been a lecturer at the Australian College of Natural Medicine (now called Endeavour College) for six years. In 2011, Mr. Staats enrolled in the Canonical Chinese Medicine Training™ and graduated as a Diplomate in Canonical Chinese Medicine in 2013. In 2017 he completed his clinical fellowship and regularly teaches the clinical application of the Tian-Zeng pulse system of the Shang Han Lun.
Since 2015, Mr Staats was appointed director of the newly inaugurated Sydney ICEAM, where he is organizing the new Canonical courses clinical trainings in Australia since 2016.
