Val Hopwood PhD FCSP SRP Dip Ac Nanjing

Qualified as a physiotherapist 1967 Worked in the UK, Switzerland and Honduras in various physiotherapy fields including coal mining injuries, TB, polio, gunshot wounds, artificial limb-fitting, community physiotherapy and neurological rehabilitation. CURRENT ACTIVITIES 2010 - 12 Current Employment: o Course Director and Senior Lecturer, MSc Acupuncture in Health Care at Coventry University. o Part-time research fellow at the University of Southampton. o Freelance Acupuncture trainer with International Acupuncture Training (IAT) in the UK and abroad. o External Examiner Glyndwr University, Chinese Traditional Medicine Degree. Publications; Books V Hopwood, Physiotherapy in the Community. Ed. Ann Gibson, 1988. Woodhead-Faulkner Ltd. (Chap 2 Setting up a Community Service, Chap 15 Health Education) V. Hopwood, M. Lovesey, and S. Mokone. Acupuncture and Related Techniques in Physical Therapy, Churchill Livingstone, 1997. V. Hopwood. Acupuncture in Physiotherapy, Butterworth Heinemann, 2004 V. Hopwood, C Donnellan. Acupuncture in Neurological Conditions. Churchill Livingstone 2010 Papers V. Hopwood. Acupuncture in Physiotherapy. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 1 (2):100-104, 1993. V. Hopwood and G. Lewith. The Effect of Acupuncture on the Motor Recovery of the Upper Limb after Stroke. Physiotherapy 83 (12):614-619, 1997. V. Hopwood. Acupuncture in stroke recovery: a literature review. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 4:258-263, 1996. J. Park, V. Hopwood, A. R. White, and E. Ernst. Effectiveness of acupuncture for stroke: A systematic review. Journal of Neurology 248:558-563, 2001. V. Hopwood and P. White. Poor reviews may not give a true reflection of the evidence. Physiotherapy 87 (10):549-551, 2001. A. R. White, M. J. Cummings, V. Hopwood, and H. MacPherson. Informed Consent for Acupuncture An Information Leaflet Developed by Consensus. Acupuncture in Medicine 19 (2):123-129, 2001. K. J. Sherman, L. Lao, H. MacPherson, G. Lewith, V. Hopwood, and K. Kawakita. Matching acupuncture clinical study designs to research questions. Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine 3:12-15, 2002. V. Hopwood and G. Lewith. Acupuncture trials and methodological considerations. Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine 3 (4):192-199, 2003. V. Hopwood. An investigation into the effects of acupuncture on stroke recovery. Southampton University. 2003. PhD.

P. White, G. Lewith, V. Hopwood, and P. Prescott. The placebo needle, is it a valid and convincing placebo for use in acupuncture trials? A randomised, single-blind, cross-over pilot trial. Pain 106:401-409, 2003. A. Campbell, V. Hopwood. Debate-Patients can be taught self-acupuncture safely. Acupuncture in Medicine, 22 (3) 141-145. V. Hopwood and Lewith G. Does Acupuncture Help Stroke Patients Become More Independent? Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 11 (1):175-177, 2005. V. Hopwood and H. MacPherson. Acupuncture Research: Strategies for Clinical Evaluation: Workshop Report, York, July 5-8, 2006. eCAM , 2007. doi: 10.1093/ecam/nem028 V. Hopwood. Acupuncture in Cardiology. National Association of Primary Care Review (Summer):3739, 2007. V. Hopwood. A new Bronze Man! J. Acupuncture Assoc Chartered Physiotherapists 59-60, 2007. V. Hopwood, G. Lewith, P. Prescott, and M. J. Campbell. Evaluating the efficacy of acupuncture in defined aspects of stroke recovery; a randomised, placebo-controlled, single blind study. J Neurol. 2008 . George Lewith, Fiona Barlow, Caroline Eyles, Andrew Flower, Sue Hall, Val Hopwood, and Jan Walker. The context and meaning of placebos for complementary medicine. Forschende Komplement+rmedizin (2006) 16 (6):404-412, 2009. G.Lewith, S Brien, F Barlow, C Eyles, A Flower, S Hall, C Hill, V Hopwood. The meaning of evidence: Can practitioners be researchers? Forschende Komplementarmedizin 2009. V.Hopwood . Acupuncture and Physiotherapists, - a personal view. European Journal of Oriental Medicine 2009. V.Hopwood. International Survey of Physiotherapists using Acupuncture Journal of AACP, ( in Press for Autumn 2012) Posters Teaching Acupuncture to Physiotherapists, WCPT, Vancouver, June 2007 Acupuncture in Neurology. Society for Acupuncture Research, Chapel Hill, USA, 2010 International Survey of Physiotherapists using Acupuncture accepted for WCPT Conference Amsterdam, June 2011.

The Essential Guide to Optimum Health (Complementary medical reference book) 2000. Duncan Baird, London. (Member of Editorial Board )

PROFESSIONAL Chairman, Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists. 1997/2003 Fellowship CSP; 2000 (Awarded for services to Education) Education Committee Chairman, International Acupuncture Association of Physical Therapists 1999/2003 Education Adviser to AACP 2004 / 2006 Education Training & Research Committee member, AACP 2006/ 2010 Political liaison officer AACP 2003/ 2008 Book Reviews Editor Journal of AACP 2008 / 2011 AACP representative to British Medical Association Complementary and Alternative Medicine Committee on Education and Research 1996/2000 AACP representative to Department Of Health Acupuncture Regulation Working group. 2002/2007

AACP representative to Skills for health, formulating the UK Professional Occupational Standards for Acupuncturists. 2003 / 2007 Health Education Teacher training course 1987 City & Guilds 730 Teacher Training course 1986 World Health Organisation Advisor at meeting to develop WHO Standard Acupuncture Point locations in Tsukuba, Japan, Oct/Nov 2006 Original Editorial Committee member for Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 1993/ 2007, on Editorial Board until 2010 Editorial Board member for Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice. Regular reviewer for acupuncture and CAM journals including Acupuncture in Medicine and Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 04.05.12