Our team
The Zhai Clinic is staffed by a first-class, highly qualified team, headed by Dr Xiao-Ping Zhai, the UK's leading authority on reproductive Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Your treatment programme will be directed and under the close supervision of Dr Zhai, supporting her is a team of fully qualified TCM practitioners who will explain and perform the treatment on you.
Every member of our team is dedicated to ensuring that your experience with us is as satisfying and relaxing as possible.
Xiao-Ping Zhai (Principal)
Founder of The Zhai Clinic, Dr Zhai has over 25 years experience in reproductive medicine. Having graduated in China, and qualified in both Western and Chinese medicine, she draws on both disciplines to treat her patients.
A fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a Lifetime Honoured fellow of the Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a member of the British Fertility Society. Dr Zhai is committed to promoting further research into the role of TCM in reproductive medicine, her work has attracted widespread journalistic interest. She contributes to professional journals and has been featured on radio, television and in national newspapers and magazines.
In 2006 and 2007 she was voted one of Britain’s 225 best private doctors by Tatler magazine.
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Alice Jones BSc (Hons)
Graduating from the University of Lincoln, Alice obtained her BSc with an Upper Second Class Honours Degree in Acupuncture in 2008. During her studies, she was able to gain an in depth understanding of the use of acupuncture in practice and is familiar with the clinical and laboratory work environment. Alice is a fertility acupuncture specialist at the Zhai Clinic with special interests in the management of pregnancy and treatment which supports IVF programmes.
Toni A Maughan, BSc, MSc, BM (Beijing)
Toni has studied Traditional Chinese Medicine for over six years. She obtained her BSc (Hons) degree from the Middlesex University in 2008 and her MSc in 2009. Having gained vast clinical experience at a hospital in Beijing (China), she was rewarded a MB from Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Toni is particularly interested in the application of Chinese herbal medicine in the use of infertility. She joined our team in January 2010.
Katherine Dandridge BSc (Hons) BM (Beijing) 
Katherine studied traditional Chinese medicine for 5 years and graduated from the Middlesex University and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. She gained as much as 11 years clinical practice experience in London, Beijing and Hong Kong before joining The Zhai Clinic. She is keen to apply her wide range of holistic health approaches in all aspects of the fertility treatment programme.
Joanna Coker Fd/Sc dip ION mBANT NTC
Qualified as a nutritional therapist, Joanna graduated from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in 2007 with a Science Foundation Degree and Diploma in Nutritional Therapy.
A member of the British Association for Nutritional Therapists and the Nutritional Therapy Council, Jo keeps up-to-date with continuing professional development and sets high standards and ethics in practice. She also gained additional training from Foresight
concentrating on Preconceptual Care.
The Zhai Clinic is delighted that Jo has joined our practice to provide nutritional expertise to our clients.
For further information please contact : jo@nutritiousworld.com Mobile: 0771 406 4874