ICMART History

ICMART is founded in Vienna, Austria – founding conference ‘World Congress on Scientific Acupuncture 1983’

 First ICMART president is Prof. Dr. Johannes Bischko.

ICMART is officially registered as a non-profit international organization with scientific aims

ICMART Congress in London, United Kingdom

DAEGfA, the German Medical Acupuncture Association, becomes member of ICMART

ICMART Congress in Prague, Czechoslovakia

first official meeting between acupuncture associations of both separated parts of Germany, outside of Germany

Pancyprean Medical Society of Acupuncture becomes member of ICMART

ICMART Congress in Vienna, Austria

ICMART Congress in Rome, Italy

first ICMART congress after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the demise of the Berlin Wall

ICMART Congress in Munich, Germany

many guests from East European Medical Acupuncture associations

ICMART Education Chapter established

ICMART European Chapter established

DGfAN, the German Association for Acupuncture and Neuraltherapy, becomes member of ICMART

ICMART Congress in Budapest, Hungary

ICMART Congress in Bath, United Kingdom

ICMART Congress in Istanbul, Turkey

ICMART Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria

ICMART Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark

ICMART Congress in Cyprus, Cyprus

ICMART goes online

ICMART Congress in Miyazaki, Japan

summit of the Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture YNSA

ICMART Congress in Jurmala, Latvia

4th Acupuncture Symposium in Mainz, Germany:

The painful abdomen. Acupuncture in Dialogue – Acupuncture and University. By the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz Germany and the Fujian University for TCM China, in cooperation with the German Medical Acupuncture Association (DAEGfA), under the patronage of ICMART, June 11-13

VIth International Course of Acupuncture, Pharmacopoeia and TCM, in cooperation with ICMART.

1999, June 18-20, ACMAS Sevilla, Spain

ICMART Congress in Vienna, Austria

5th Acupuncture Symposium in Mainz, Germany:

Headache – the painful head. Acupuncture in Dialogue – Acupuncture and University. By the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz Germany and the Fujian University for TCM China, in cooperation with the German Medical Acupuncture Association (DAEGfA), under the patronage of ICMART, May 26-28

Admission of new members:

- Grupo Master Universitario de Acupunctura, Spain
- Canadian Medical Acupuncture Society 
- Fondazione Matteo Ricci, Italy 
- Medical Acupuncture Society of Northern Greece

Open access for ICMART member societies to the British Journal Acupuncture in Medicine

ICMART Congress in Berlin, Germany, June 15-17

Largest international congress on Medical Acupuncture to date

First meeting 'Acupuncture worldwide' of important representatives of Medical Acupuncture

Declaration of the Acupuncture Charter Berlin 2001

National Medical Acupuncture Symposium

with international participation in Belek, Turkey, assisted by ICMART. October 12-14

Admission of new ICMART members:

- American Academy of Medical Acupuncture (AAMA)
- Australian Medical Acupuncture College (AMAC)
- Ecole Française d’Acupuncture (EFA) and Association Scientifique des Médecins Acupuncteurs de France (ASMAF)
- Groupe Lyonnais d’Etudes Médicales (GLEM)
- Worldwide Auricular Acupuncture Organisation, Auriculo Sans Frontières (WAAO, ASF)
- Russian Association of Integrative Medicine

ICMART Congress in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

6th Acupuncture Symposium in Mainz, Germany:

Respiratory diseases. Acupuncture in Dialogue – Acupuncture and University. By the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz Germany and the Fujian University for TCM China, in cooperation with the German Medical Acupuncture Association (DAEGfA), under the patronage of ICMART, May 30- June 2

IX National Medical Acupuncture Congress, in cooperation with ICMART.

 With International Participation. Title: Acupuncture facing the future  Riga, Latvia, December 13-15

Admission of new member societies of ICMART:

- Acupuncture Section of The Official Medical College, Barcelona, Spain
- Physician’s Section of the Norwegian Society of Medical Acupuncture
- Ukranian Association of Acupuncture and Reflexotherapy
- Irish Medical Acupuncture Society (IMAS)
- International Association and Network for Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture (IANYNSA), Germany
- Associazione Terapie Naturali (A.Te.Na.), Italy

ICMART Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil

14th Congress of the German Association for Acupuncture and Neuraltherapy (DGfAN), in cooperation with ICMART:

"Acupuncture and Neuraltherapy in the sporting scene and other different themes”, May 1–4, Jena, Germany

First International Meeting on Medical Acupuncture in Barcelona.

Hosted by the Section of Acupuncturists from the Official Medical College, Barcelona, in cooperation with ICMART. Barcelona, Spain, May 9-11

7th Acupuncture Symposium in Mainz, Germany:

Burnout Syndrome. Acupuncture in Dialogue – Acupuncture and University. By the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz Germany and the Fujian University for TCM China, in cooperation with the German Medical Acupuncture Association (DAEGfA), under the patronage of ICMART, May 9-11

ICMART Congress in Sydney, Australia

8th Acupuncture Symposium in Mainz, Germany:

The aching joint. Acupuncture in Dialogue – Acupuncture and University. By the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz Germany and the Fujian University for TCM China, in cooperation with the German Medical Acupuncture Association (DAEGfA), under the patronage of ICMART, June 25-27 A double congress with the 5th World Symposium of the World Federation of Traditional Chinese Orthopädics (WFTCO)

10th International Symposium on Holistic Medicine (in cooperation with ICMART):

Life with Acupuncture.18-20 June 2004 Riga, Latvia

Admission of new member societies of ICMART:

- Portuguese Medical Society of Acupuncture
- Romanian Acupuncture Society
- British Dental Acupuncture Society
- Medical Acupuncture Society of New Zealand
- Acupuncture Medical Societiy SOMA-SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Section of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine of the Medical Doctor’s Association of Serbia
- Japanese Society of Veterinary Oriental medicine
- Transylvanian Association of Integrated Quantum Medicine
- French Federation of Medical Acupuncturists for Continuous Medical Training FAFORMEC

ICMART Congress in Prague, Czech Republic

ICMART starts EU-representation of Medical Acupuncture in Brussels, Belgium

CAMDOC Alliance of the four main complementary medical systems

Second International Medical Congress on Acupuncture in Spain, with cooperation of ICMART

Barcelona, Spain, June 3-5, 2005

9th Acupuncture Symposium in Mainz, Germany:

Healthy aging. Acupuncture in Dialogue – Acupuncture and University. By the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz Germany and the Fujian University for TCM China, in cooperation with the German Medical Acupuncture Association (DAEGfA), under the patronage of ICMART, June 25-26

ICMART Congress in Washington, USA

new ICMART By-laws passed

10th Acupuncture Symposium in Mainz, Germany:

Heart and circulatory diseases. Acupuncture in Dialogue – Acupuncture and University. By the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz Germany and the Fujian University for TCM China, in cooperation with the German Medical Acupuncture Association (DAEGfA), under the patronage of ICMART, May 27-28

ICMART Congress in Barcelona, Spain

ICMART Congress in Budapest, Hungary

Celebration of 25 years of ICMART

EUROCAM established

a platform of four CAM stakeholders to represent CAM in Brussels, Belgium

11th Acupuncture Symposium in Mainz, Germany:

Psychosomatic disorders. Acupuncture in Dialogue – Acupuncture and University. By the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz Germany and the Fujian University for TCM China, in cooperation with the German Medical Acupuncture Association (DAEGfA), under the patronage of ICMART, June 14

ICMART Congress in Thessaloniki, Greece

Starting of a European Information Centre for CAM

to make scientific CAM studies available for everybody

ICMART Congress in Riga, Latvia

Admission of new ICMART members:

- Chile Society of Medical Acupuncture, Chile
- Hellenic Society of Neuraltherapy and Stady of Homeostasis, Greece
- Veterenarian Acupuncturists of the Mediterranenian (VAM), Spain

Representation of ICMART in the Advisory Board of CAMbrella,

the EU 7^th framework programme on CAM

CAMDOC Alliance with ICMART presented a workshop

on the 4th European Congress Integrative Medicine / ECIM in Berlin, December 2010 (download programme)

1st CAM Interest Group meeting, Brussels, Belgium with ICMART

November 16th „Availability of CAM medicinal products in the EU“

ICMART Congress in The Hague, Netherlands

First Extraordinary General Assembly of ICMART

Establishing of the ICMART Scientific Chapter

Admission of new members of ICMART:

- Study Group Acupuncture and Natural Therapies (GSATN) – Sardinia, Italy
- Scientific Association of Medical Acupuncture in Greece (SAMAG), Greece
- Chile Society of Medical Acupuncture, Chile

CAM Interest Group meetings in Brussels, Belgium with ICMART

April 12th 'Healthy Aging with CAM'
and October 11th 'CAM Research'

CAMDOC Alliance with ICMART presenting a Round Table discussion

6th October 2011 'Towards Integrative medicine in Europe' at the 4th ECIM-European Congress for Integrative Medicine, Berlin, Germany

ICMART Congress in Athens, Greece

ICMART website relaunched

MAC-CAM Interest Group meeting, Brussels, Belgium with ICMART

27th March 'Cancer and the Contribution of CAM'

ICMART Congress in Vienna, Austria

30 Years Anniversary of ICMART
30th Nov-1st Dec 2013

ICMART Congress Istanbul, Turkey

6th-8th June 2014

† Prof. h.c. Dr. med. Walburg Maric-Oehler, MD, ICMART General Secretary

ICMART announcement.pdf
Obituary.pdf

ICMART Congress 2015, Bail, Indonesia

8th-10th May 2015

ICMART Congress Sofia, Bulgaria

10th-12th June 2016