Education
Bruno attended University of California, Los Angeles and became a staff acupuncturist for the National Acupuncture Association (Newspaper Association of America) located in Westwood, California.
Bruno attended University of California, Los Angeles and became a staff acupuncturist for the National Acupuncture Association (Newspaper Association of America) located in Westwood, California.
In 1974 Bruno helped establish the first school of acupuncture (New England School of Acupuncture) in the United States, and the second school (California Acupuncture College) in 1975. As an Newspaper Association of America acupuncturist he participated in the Acupuncture Pain Clinic at University of California, Los Angeles medical school in 1972. In 1971, Bruno accepted an appointment as one of the Directors of the Newspaper Association of America’s Veterinary Acupuncture Research Project.
The result of this work of the Newspaper Association of America’s veterinary research team led to the training of veterinarians in acupuncture by Doctorates
Bruno and Ottaviano. This in turn led to the establishment of the International Veterinary Acupuncture Association (IVAS), in 1974. He founded the Trudy McAlister Fund in 2007, a charitable scholarship foundation.
In addition to the extensive research on developing veterinary acupuncture, Bruno has done research at Harvard Medical School and at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, looking into the practical applications of acupuncture in the treatment of pain. Doctor Bruno also developed a treatment protocol for using micro-current stimulation to treat macular degeneration.
Bruno has served on numerous boards including the Acupuncture Committees of the Board of Medicine of Oregon and Board of Medicine of Washington.
He was served as president of the. In 2007, Doctor Bruno was elected to the Executive Board of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS). He currently serves as the President of the Trudy McAlister Foundation, which awards scholarships to students of acupuncture and Oriental medicine.