Dominik Irnich is Head of the Interdisciplinary Pain Clinic at LMU Munich (city center campus) and served as First Chairman and Director of the Continuing Education Center of the German Medical Society for Acupuncture (DÄGfA e.V.) from 2010 to 2025 (First Chairman from 2016). He has been a clinical study director since 1996 and completed the first habilitation on acupuncture at a German university after 1945. His work includes more than 100 original scientific publications (indexed in PubMed), 14 research awards, over 200 scientific lectures, and 30 book chapters, as well as continuous teaching in pain therapy, acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and naturopathic medicine.He is editor of the patient guide “Healing the Back: A Holistic Path to Self-Healing” and of the standard reference work “Guide to Trigger Points” (Elsevier, 2008). The Munich Integrative Naturopathic Pain Program (MNS), established at LMU in 2001 for patients with chronic pain, is a model for integrating classical naturopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, conventional medicine, and psychosomatic medicine.