Dr. Jennifer Ashby believes in partnering with her patients to create a balanced and healthy lifestyle that best serves them. She believes that all people should feel held by their care team and empowered to take charge of making decisions about their own health.

“She [Dr. Ashby] has helped me with everything from an injured shoulder to a difficult pregnancy to recovering from surgery. She is helpful, healing and inspiring. You should go but leave the occasional appointment for me, please.”

“It's acupuncture without ‘hippie.’ She knows what she's talking about but doesn't feel the need to overuse words like, ‘chakra,’ ‘karma,’ ‘groovy,’ ‘third eye’ and ‘aura.’ She takes the new age out of acupuncture and treats it as an actual healing practice. And she's warm and very funny.”

“I am actually hesitant to write about her, as she is so amazing that putting her here may make it hard for me to get an appointment.”

Meet Dr. Jennifer Ashby,

DAOM, LAc.

Jennifer Ashby is a leading doctor of East Asian medicine, board-certified and licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in San Francisco, California. She is the co-founder and one of the lead clinicians at the prominent Lotus Center, a senior acupuncturist at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health, and leading voice on integrative East Asian medicine and the role of Eastern medicine in lifestyle, disease, and epigenetics.

Dr Jennifer Ashby is passionate about bringing humanism back to medicine. She has studied the effects of acupuncture on depression, non pharmacological approaches to cancer related pain and the effects of lifestyle on epigenetics and disease progression. 

Research & Academic Accolades

  • Developed research manual for UCSF’s PRACXIS study

  • Supported Stanford University study on the effects of acupuncture on depression

  • Member of the Polycystic Kidney Disease Center for Excellence at UCSF

  • Professor of Women’s Health at American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM)

  • Lecturer at the UCSF School of Medicine; UCSF Department of Psychiatry; Women's Cancer Resource Center in Berkeley; University of California, Berkeley; San Francisco Doula Group; 

  • Keynote speaker, 2012, ACTCM graduation ceremony

  • Earned doctorate and master's degrees from ACTCM

  • Completed residencies at Marin General Hospital, Shanghai University Hospital, and CPMC Davies Stroke Unit