Anu Mäkelä

 

Anu Mäkelä graduated with honors from the medical and healthcare sciences department of Australian National University (Canberra, Australia) in 1984 and in addition to research, has been working with patients since graduation. Currently she is the dean of Acupuncture and Bioenergy Research Institute (Helsinki, Finland), Professor of Biochemistry, Member of Russian Medical Laser Academy, President of European Medical Laser Association (EMLA), and Editor of EMLA-Laser Health Journal.
Anu Mäkelä has doctorate degrees in medicine (electrophysiology), biochemistry, nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine, including acupuncture and traditional herbal medicine. She started to work with low level lasers in 1982 and helped in the development of the first in the world He-Ne based electro-laser acupuncture system, which was ready in 1983. She also developed and patented an electro-laser therapy method, which is based on electrophysiological evaluation of the condition of acupuncture points and simultaneous influence of laser light and electricity on acupuncture points. She has written several books and numerous research articles on biochemistry, lasers, acupuncture, oncology and electrotherapy.