Dr. Kenneth Son is a staff anesthesiologist at City of Hope. He also received an M.P.H. degree in Epidemiology from the St. Louis University School of Public Health.  He was a General Medical Officer in the 1st Marine Division, 2/4 Marines in Ramadi, Iraq from 2003 through 2005, where he became interested in the use of acupuncture on the battlefield.  He has published in this regard, and completed a course on Acupuncture for Physicians at UCLA.