Dr. Yangbum Gyal graduated in 1988 from the Malho medical school in Rebgong, Tibet and later obtained the degree of Menpa Kachupa and Menrampa (equivalent to PhD in western graduate degree) in Traditional Tibetan Medicine at Men-Tsee-Khang (Tibetan Medical & Astrological Institute of the Dalai Lama) in India.

Dr. Gyal is currently serving as the Residential Tibetan Health Advisor at Medicine Buddha Healing Center in Spring Green and practices Tibetan medicine at Charaka Integrative Medicine in Madison. He travels and gives talk, workshops, and seminars on Tibetan medicine. He served as a resident doctor, medical research fellow, and professor at Men-Tsee-Khang (Tibetan Medical & Astrological Institute) in Dharamsala, India and also served as a resident doctor at the Hargay Health Center in Amdo, Tibet. He has taught Tibetan language and topics on Tibetan medicine at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and he is now serving as honorary fellow at the Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin. He authored the Tibetan Medical Dietary Book: Vol I, The Potency and Preparation of Vegetables and has published and presented papers on Tibetan medicine and other related topics. He has held workshops on Tibetan medicine in the Midwest area, and has made medical tours to different parts of India and Japan.

Dr. Gyal offers a traditional Tibetan medical healing approach with an assortment of pulse reading, urine analysis, herbal remedies, personalized dietary and lifestyle modification, Ku-Nye (Tibetan massage), body-mind therapy, and other therapeutic treatments.

Dr. Yangbum Gyal taking pulse.