The Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture UK (ATCM) is saddened to announce that Dr Dinghui Luo, the founding president of the ATCM, who has made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese medicine overseas and in the UK, passed away in Hong Kong at the age of 78 after collapsing in her home on 31st December 2023 and was taken to the hospital where she could not be resuscitated.

Dr Dinghui Luo graduated from the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. She selflessly dedicated her life to the course of Chinese medicine and contributed herself to the development of Chinese medicine overseas and in the U.K. At the end of the 1980s, Dr Luo worked with a Children’s Hospital in London, using traditional Chinese medicine to successfully treat eczema. Her outcomes were published in Western medical journals, and Chinese medicine was then widely reported by BBC and other Western mainstream media. More and more people around the world are interested in Chinese medicine, which brought the dramatic development of Chinese medicine in the UK in the 1990s. Dr Luo’s far-sighted vision has enabled her TCM career to go far and wide overseas. Together with other like-minded TCM practitioners in the UK, she founded the ATCM in 1994 and was elected as the first president.  Now the ATCM is one of the largest and most influential Chinese medicine professional bodies in the UK. Her death is a great loss to the TCM community in the UK!

We will always remember Dr Dinghui Luo’s outstanding contribution to Chinese medicine in the UK. On behalf of the ATCM members, we would like to extend our deepest condolences to Dr Luo’s family.

ATCM Council