About Sullivan Acupuncture

Dr. Heather Sullivan-Maldonado's Qualifications:

 

• Licensed Acupuncturist

• Board-Certified in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Therapy with NCCAOM, national board agency

• Doctorate Degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine

• Internship completed in China at the Premier University of Guangzhou

• Fellow of American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine (ABORM)

• Certification in Five Element Functional Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine

• Master's Degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and Bachelor's in Nutrition from Midwest College of Oriental Medicine

• Bachelor's in Biology from UW - Madison

• Certification in Oncology Acupuncture - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

• In Practice Since 2010

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Dr. Sullivan-Maldonado has advanced certifications in pain management, sports/orthopedic acupuncture, oncology acupuncture and women's health/fertility and trained with top acupuncturists including:

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• The Late and Great Dr. Richard Tan

• Dr. Michael Corridino

• Dr Jason Hao

• Dr. Anthony Lombardi

• Brad Whisnant

• Bob Doane

• Matt Callison

• Jane Littleton

• Chris Axelrad

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What education levels are required for various health practitioners to practice acupuncture in the State of Illinois?  Find out here.  

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Heather's Story

 

Growing up, she faced certain health challenges including a family history of clinical depression, a reading disorder and crippling dysmenorrhea. Through these trials, she found healing in yoga, East Asian theosophy and natural medicine. After graduating from University of Wisconsin-Madison with an Integrative Biology degree, she gave up her free-spirited, hippie-chick ways to enter the grueling field of corporate sales. From there, she transitioned to the purchasing field where she climbed to the highest non-management level in the supply chain department as senior corporate buyer. Despite her success, she felt a growing dissatisfaction with her occupational choices and, through introspection, decided to return to her roots in natural medicine. Given her interest in all things East Asian, Chinese Medicine became a perfect fit and she never looked back. 

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Heather’s mission and purpose is to form a partnership with her patients to finding the right combination of natural medicine and lifestyle transformations to set them back on the path of healing. She views her patients as her extended family, treating them with compassion and loving-kindness that is so necessary in the health field.

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When she is not happily treating her patients or studying her 5000-year-old medicine, Heather spends her time playing hockey as a goalie, practicing meditation and loving on her husband, three dogs and being a slave to two cats.