People behind ICAMA

Matia Brizman: M.T.O.M., L.Ac., Ph.D.

Board certified in Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture.

Matia Brizman is a doctor of classical Chinese medicine practicing acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in Los Angeles who treats patients both in Greater Los Angeles, as well as in various parts of the United States and abroad. Her work is an original system comprised of her own integrative approach between classical Chinese and Western medicine.

This body of work will be published in her Ph.D. dissertation (newly completed in spring 2007) on the subject of the integrated treatment of IC. In this work, she is endeavoring to form a bridge of understanding between Western and Eastern medical disciplines and to incorporate her ideas into a format that will help others treat the disease.

She intends to continue treating in her private practice, but hopes to expand her work by teaching her philosophy on and treatment of this disease. Her hope is to reach more people.

Boaz Brizman: M.T.O.M., L.Ac.

Board certified in Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture.

Co-Founder and administrator for ICAMA association development. Partner and husband to Matia Brizman, Boaz brings the combination of his expertise in Chinese medicine and his unique vision to ICAMA.

Boaz has achieved a brilliant body of work by restoring health to both adults and children with lung and immune function disorders such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, and debilitating allergies. His work with chronic illness is synonymous with the work of his wife and partner in that he addresses the body as a whole in the treatment of these kinds of conditions. Boaz brings this invaluable body of experience and perspective to his position as co-founder of the ICAMA.

Boaz has been training under the ICAMA protocol and is the first practitioner to work under this system. He is now seeing patients and is the first person that Dr. Brizman has trusted to begin the process of spreading her work.

From Dr. Brizman:

"Boaz has an incredible ability to digest and impart information. So, it is my hope that he will enable me to organize and teach this body of work that I have been developing over all of these years after working along side me for a period of time. This is a very exciting step for me and for the ICAMA."