It looks like your Javascript is turned off.

To give you a great learning experience, our website requires JavaScript to be enabled.

It looks like your browser has JavaScript turned off. Here are instructions to enable it.

Thanks for your understanding.

The Net of Knowledge Team

It looks like you're using Internet Explorer.

Microsoft has stopped updating Internet Explorer and instead has shifted their energies towards Edge. This website uses modern web technologies and a number of them are not compatible with the outdated Internet Explorer.

Please log back in with any other modern browser! (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge are all good options.)

Thanks for your understanding.

The Net of Knowledge Team

Barbara de la Torre

Biography

Barbara de la Torre is a physician, thought leader, and podcaster who speaks and writes about health strategy with an integrative lens. She lectures on reframing healthcare through systemic changes around self-care, prevention, and collaboration. Dr. de la Torre founded her company, Third Opinion MD, as a way to spark a wave of change in the practice of medicine and how people can best navigate existing healthcare systems. She lectures on topics that infuse the fundamental principles of Chinese medicine into conventional medicine. She educates patients and healthcare practitioners on topics that include qigong, health strategy, and systems solutions to growing healthcare challenges.

Dr. de la Torre has over 30 years of experience in Western and Chinese medicine and holds dual Board certification in Family Medicine and Medical Acupuncture. She has additional training in psychiatry and years of working experience in primary care, obstetrics, gynecology, and urgent care. Dr. de la Torre is also Master Certified in Medical Qigong from the Ling Gui lineage, which she considers her most valuable medical education.

Dr de la Torre currently serves on the board of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture (AAMA), a medical organization dedicated to the integration of the practice of medicine and acupuncture. She also serves on the AAMA committee to review lectures and workshops for continuing medical education accreditation. She served for six years on the Acupuncture Advisory Committee for the Medical Board in her home state of Oregon. This year, she will formally join as faculty with the Helms Medical Institute, which is an organization that educates physicians in Medical Acupuncture.

Live Events with Barbara de la Torre


June 6-7, 2026

Perinatal Acupuncture Conference 2026

In-Person

In Person
This is a conference with many teachers to learn from!

Click here to turn on notifications for Barbara

You'll receive an email whenever she posts new content. Whether it's a course, article, book, video, or live event, you'll always be the first to know!


{{ notification.message }}