David Hartmann lives in Brisbane, Australia and has been a practicing acupuncturist since 1997. He upgraded his qualifications with a Masters of Acupuncture in 2009, and has a PhD pending. David is the Module Leader for Chinese Classics at the Northern College of Acupuncture in York, UK. He has been a Head of the Chinese medicine department and lecturer at various schools since 2000.

David has written two textbooks on Chinese medicine – 'The Principles and Practical Application of Acupuncture Point Combinations' (published with Singing Dragon in 2020) and the 'Acupoint Dictionary 2e' (published with Elsevier in 2009).

David has presented at conferences and done his own stand-alone seminars in ten countries around the world. He also has online workshops with six different webinar companies internationally. David has published in journals and shares his research results in blog articles on his website.