About Sandro
Professional achievements, roles and affiliations
Sandro Graca, MSc, Lic. TCM, FABORM
Sandro is a lecturer and a published researcher in the field of menstrual and reproductive health, Fellow of the ABORM (Acupuncture & TCM Board of Reproductive Medicine), and one of the Directors at Evidence Based Acupuncture. In 2023, he joined the Board of the Society for Acupuncture Research.
Originally from Portugal, Sandro obtained his Licentiate in TCM at the Irish College of TCM in Dublin, followed by a four-week program on acupuncture and moxibustion at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.
He completed his MSc in Advanced Oriental Medicine (Research and Practice) at the Northern College of Acupuncture (NCA) – in conjunction with Middlesex University – focusing on acupuncture for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Sandro is a lecturer on the online MSc program at the NCA in York, U.K. and he is one of the researchers on the Cochrane Review Groups for acupuncture for dysmenorrhea and for assisted reproductive technology, and Chinese herbal medicine for endometriosis.
He is also the Director for International Membership of the Obstetrical Acupuncture Association (OBAA) and the Social Media Editor of the European Journal of Integrative Medicine.
Professional Achivements

- Board Member of the Society for Acupuncture Research
- Casual Systematic Review Assistant (Cochrane Review) at Western Sydney University
- Member of the Early-Career SIG at the Androgen Excess PCOS Society
- Social Media Editor at the European Journal of Integrative Medicine
- MSc at the Northern College of Acupuncture / Middlesex University, UK
- Board of Directors of Evidence Based Acupuncture
- Fellow of the Acupuncture & TCM Board of Reproductive Medicine
- Board of Directors of the Obstetrical Acupuncture Association
- Member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
- Member of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embriology
- Member of the Acupuncture Foundation Professional Association (Former Board Member)
- Certificate Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
- Licentiate in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Irish College of TCM, Dublin, Ireland
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