Seth Koss, M.D.
Board-certified Family Physician and Medical Acupuncturist. Over 27 years of Classical Chinese training, applied to children, adults, and the kinds of problems Western medicine often leaves unfinished.
A Family Physician who trained in the classics of Chinese Medicine.
Dr. Koss received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his Family Practice residency at Thomas Jefferson University. He is board certified by both the American Board of Family Practice and the American Board of Medical Acupuncture — a combination uncommon enough that patients often arrive having looked specifically for it.
His study of Classical and Traditional Chinese Medicine began in Taiwan, in 1996, at the China Medical College. He then completed a four-year Classical Chinese Acupuncture training program for physicians under Dr. Anita Cignolini — a program intentionally built to preserve the older lineage of Chinese Medicine inside a physician's training.
During this time, Dr. Koss also served as medical director and family physician for the Indian Health Council, a community of nine Native American tribes living in the mountains of Southern California. While caring for this community, he developed a Chinese medicine clinic specializing in the treatment of common as well as difficult internal medicine diseases through the use of Acupuncture — a part of his training he describes as formative.
Dr. Koss is now in private practice in Wayne, Pennsylvania at Wellspring Physician Acupuncture, where he uses Acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese dietary theory, and simplified Qi Gong instruction to treat a full spectrum of health concerns for both children and adults.
The hope is for patients to read, ask questions, and learn alongside their care — rather than receive treatment passively. The medicine works best when patient and physician are both collaborating with it.