Lupo T. Carlota, M.D., DIP. AC.

Dr. Lupo T. Carlota was appointed recently to the Advisory Committee of the White House Conference on Aging.

In 2001-2003, he served on the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He chaired the Commission's Health SubCommittee which was tasked with the role of preparing the Report to the President and the Nation titled: "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Addressing Health Disparities: Opportunities for Building a Healthier America"

The full report was respectfully submitted by the Commission to the Office of the President in 2003. Having served in this sub-cabinet post made him one of the high ranking Asian Americans appointed by President Bush to work in the first term of his administration.

The President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders was mandated to identify and enhance the opportunities, address the unmet needs, and uplift the wellbeing of about 13 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders spread across the United States and its
island territories.

A strong advocate of Asian American political, economic, and social empowerment, Dr. Carlota is the Chairman of the National Asian American Republican Coalition.
In 1993, he became the first Filipino American elected to public office in the deep South when he was voted Vice Mayor of Lakeland, his home city in Tennessee. He is the president of the National Filipino American Council (NFAC,) a nationwide hub organization of Filipino American organizations in the United States.

A world-class authority, leading pioneer and master teacher of modern scientific acupuncture, Dr. Carlota is the developer of MRA (Meridian Regulatory Acupuncture) System of Therapy that is now employed by hundreds of physicians across the U.S. and overseas in the treatment of major pain disorders and a variety of body ailments. He is the president of Medical Acupuncture Research Institute of America (MARIA,) an institution of higher learning he founded in 1974, and currently holds acupuncture education and training courses for western-trained physicians.

An original thinker, he presented the “Quantum Theory of Acupuncture" at the International Acupuncture Society Convention held in Taipei, Taiwan in 1976. This postulate explained the scientific basis of acupuncture for the first time. In 1983, he became the first westerner invited to lecture on the science of acupuncture and its practical applications in Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai.

Dr. Carlota hails from the Philippines. He earned his medical degree in Manila from the University of Santo Tomas, “Meritissimus” (highest honors) in 1960. A psychiatrist by training, he served as Program Director of the Memphis Mental Health Institute, an acute psychiatric hospital of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1980.
He now resides in Lakeland, Tennessee with his wife Lilibeth and their son Francis. He has two married sons, Moses, a business executive and Oliver, a physician who specializes in obstetrics and gynecology.