EMILY RATNER, M.D., DABMA
		Dr. Emily Ratner is a clinical Professor of Anesthesia and the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Division of Medical Acupuncture in the Department of Anesthesia at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Ratner received her B.S. in Biology at Newcomb College at Tulane University in 1983, her M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in 1987, and completed her Anesthesia Residency at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1991. She was Chief Resident in Anesthesia, and she has been on the faculty at Stanford since 1992, where she sub-specialized in Obstetric Anesthesia.

Dr. Ratner has been on National Committees of both the American Society of Anesthesia (ASA) and the Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP). She is on the Steering Committee of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) and is currently a Fellow in the Program of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. She is Board Certified in Anesthesiology and Medical Acupuncture. She became interested in
Medical Acupuncture in 2003 and graduated from the Helms Medical Institute/UCLA Medical Acupuncture for Physicians course in 2004, where she has been teaching ever since.