Our Team | Providing Acupuncture and Western allopathic Medicine to Sun City Center and Ruskin Florida

Our Team

Dr. Jan Kummer LAc

Jan Kummer, AP DOM, graduated from East West College of Natural Medicine, receiving an M.S. in Oriental Medicine and a B.S. in Professional Health Sciences. She is an NCCAOM board certified and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Florida. She is Herb certified with NCCAOM, and also a Mei Zen practitioner. Holistic health care is her passion and she looks forward to sharing her knowledge and experience with the local community.

Dr. Kummer believes in promoting the body’s own ability to heal itself and tailors each treatment to the client’s needs using many different modalities. Her clinical interests include pain management, women’s health, gastro-intestinal disorders, and stress management.

Dr. Kummer also holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts and enjoys spending time with her husband and two adult sons.

Maria Carvajal, LAc

Maria Carvajal, A.P., LAc. graduated from Atlantic Institute of Oriental Medicine in 2018. She has been working locally as an acupuncturist since 2019. She also has a bachelor's degree in dentistry and more than 15 years of practice in Columbia, South America. She is fluent in both English and Spanish.

She has a passion for integrating the holistic perspective of Oriental Medicine with the scientific knowledge of conventional Western medicine.

Scott Schulz, DACM, LAc

Scott Schulz, DACM has 15 years experience in natural medicine. Specialize in orthopedics/pain management: Balance Method Acupuncture, motor/trigger point needling, neurofunctional electro acupuncture, and Master Tung's system. Also a clinical supervisor and professor of acupuncture and Eastern medicine.

Michelle Ciliberti, LAc

Michelle Ciliberti DOM, AP is board certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Chinese Herbology and Acupuncture and is licensed in the state of Florida.

Michelle graduated from East West College of Natural Medicine as Valedictorian with a Masters of Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine and a Bachelor of Professional Health Sciences. Prior to that, she received her Bachelor's Degree with a Pre-Med focus from the University of Florida in 2013.

She has treated a number of health ailments ranging from musculoskeletal disorders, migraines, headaches, women’s health issues, fertility, cosmetic acupuncture, pain management, digestive issues, and psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety.

With over a decade of experience instructing yoga, and her intensive Chinese Medical studies, Michelle has developed a deep appreciation for the profound effect natural medicine can have on the physical body, as well as the mind and spirit.

Currently, Michelle is furthering her studies in Functional Medicine and Orthopedic Sports Medicine where she builds a bridge between acupuncture and conventional Western medicine, believing that integrative health care is the most informative and preventative kind.