Mazin Al-Khafaji Doctor of Chinese Medicine (Shanghai, China); FRCHM (Fellow of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine); founder of Avicenna Centre for Chinese Medicine.

Mazin started his studies in Chinese medicine and the Chinese language in 1979. He graduated as an acupuncturist in the UK in 1983 and then continued his studies in China where he was awarded the first Sino-British scholarship to study medicine alongside Chinese students. He graduated from the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Shanghai in 1987 as Doctor of Chinese Medicine.

He offers treatments in a wide range of disorders including gynaecology, dermatology, rheumatic, digestive, as well as auto-immune & allergic disease.

Mazin lectures widely to postgraduates and at conferences in the U.K, Europe, Canada and the USA. He regularly contributes to professional publications, is co-author of an international textbook on Chinese medicine and is currently writing a book on dermatology in Chinese medicine.