David G. Mercier, M.S., L.Ac

David G. Mercier, M.S., L.Ac., is an acupuncturist, seminar leader, and adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, where his award-winning book, A Beautiful Medicine, is the textbook used in the two courses he teaches.

He earned his M.S. in positive organization development at Case Western Reserve University, his master’s degree in acupuncture at the Maryland University of Integrative Health, and a certificate in transpersonal psychology under psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, M.D. During the 1970’s, Dr. Mercier was a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka for two years.