Dr. Tracy Soltesz

D.Ac., L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM), C.ZB.
Foundation Co-Chair, Marketing & Communications Committee

Tracy has a Bachelor degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in political science, legal policy and advanced journalism. She obtained her Master of Acupuncture from the Tai Sophia Institute, now called Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH), and obtained her license to practice acupuncture in Maryland in early 2006, where she continues to treat patients while running a multi-practitioner clinic in Annapolis. In 2016, she was a part of the first graduating class of the Doctor of Acupuncture program at MUIH. She holds a Diplomate of Acupuncture from the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).

She has traveled throughout the world to study the ways in which our cultural, generational, and gender conditioning inform our health care decisions, training with renowned scholars of Asian Medicine including Lonny Jarrett, Ross Rosen, and Dr. Leon Hammer, MD and has ten years of post-graduate apprenticeship in the Clinical Integration of Chinese Medicine in the 21st century.

Tracy has served the profession through volunteer work since 2008, including President of the Maryland Acupuncture Society (MAS) and Chair of the Council of State (Acupuncture) Associations (CSA), a coalition of state-based acupuncture associations now known as the American Society of Acupuncturists (ASA) – a national federation of acupuncturists. She serves as adjunct faculty at MUIH and is the Clinical Pearls editor for the Journal of the American Society of Acupuncturists.