Dr Amy Forth (TCM) – Doctor of Chinese Medicine
Managing Director, The Acupuncture Pregnancy Clinic
Who I am
I’m a Chinese medicine practitioner, integrative medicine researcher and educator. I have practiced since 2008, and my clinical work is in fertility, IVF support, pregnancy and women’s health.
I’m Managing Director of The Acupuncture Pregnancy Clinic, a group of six clinics across New South Wales and Victoria, and Director of our Alexandria clinic. Alexandria sits inside Alexandria Specialist Day Hospital alongside IVF Australia’s consulting and procedure facilities, one of the first acupuncture clinics in Australia to operate within a hospital, and the first to do so in reproductive medicine.
Alongside clinical practice I’ve worked as a researcher at the NICM Health Research Institute at Western Sydney University, published on integrative medicine and interprofessional communication, and taught acupuncture and Chinese medicine to GPs, midwives, fertility nurses, IVF specialists and Chinese medicine practitioners.
Registration and memberships
- Registered with AHPRA since 18 January 2008: Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine, registration
CMR0001740155 - Member, Australian Traditional Medicine Society (ATMS) 24561, since 2008
- Deputy Chair, Acupuncture Now Australia, since 2026
Qualifications
- Master of Global Health and Development – Macquarie University, 2017
- Bachelor of Health Science (Traditional Chinese Medicine) – Southern School of Natural Therapies,
- Melbourne, 2007
My Master’s thesis examined the culture of biomedicine as a barrier to general practitioners’ access to and
communication of complementary medicine information.
Clinical focus
- IVF support, including acupuncture around embryo transfer
- Natural fertility and preconception care
- Endometriosis and PCOS
- Recurrent miscarriage
- Pregnancy and postnatal care
- Perimenopause and women’s health
Research
I have worked as a research assistant and as a study practitioner on acupuncture research at the NICM Health
Research Institute, Western Sydney University.
- Research Project Assistant, NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, 2019–2022,
supervised by Associate Professor Carolyn Ee, mixed-methods research into the integrative medicine
practice and education needs of Australian general practitioners, and the development of an integrative
medicine curriculum framework with the School of Medicine at Western Sydney University. - Research Assistant, acupuncture and auricular electro-acupuncture as adjuncts to lifestyle interventions
for weight management in PCOS, a randomised controlled feasibility study, NICM, Western Sydney
University, 2018. - Study practitioner, Endometriosis and Acupuncture, NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney
University, 2017. - Study practitioner, IVF and Acupuncture study, NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney
University, 2012, led by Professor Caroline Smith.
Publications
Ee C, Templeman K, Forth A, et al. Integrative Medicine in General Practice in Australia: A Mixed-Methods
Study Exploring Education Pathways and Training Needs. Global Advances in Health and Medicine. 2021;10.
doi:10.1177/21649561211037594
Nguyen J, Hunter J, Smith L, Harnett JE, Forth A. Can we all speak the same ‘language’ for our patients’ sake?
Feedback on interprofessional communication and related resources. Global Advances in Health and
Medicine. 2021;10:1–10.
Co-author. Interprofessional Communication: A Stepping Stone to Complementary Medicine Integration.
Australasian Integrative Medicine Association Interprofessional Working Group, February 2018.
Selected presentations
| Year | Presentation |
| 2025 | Invited speaker, Fertility Nurses Association Annual Conference, Brisbane – IVF acupuncture |
| 2023 | Invited speaker, International Integrative Chinese Medicine Conference, Melbourne – Igniting an integrative model of care |
| 2022 | Invited speaker, ATMS Fertility Symposium – Chinese herbal medicine for female fertility |
| 2020 | Invited speaker, Research Matters series, University of Melbourne School of Medicine, Department of General Practice |
| 2019 | Invited speaker, Fertility Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, Hobart – the role of acupuncture within an integrative model of care for IVF patients |
| 2019 | Speaker, International Congress of Complementary Medicine Research, Brisbane |
| 2018 | Speaker, Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association Conference, Sydney |
| 2018 | Speaker, Acupuncture New Zealand Conference, Wellington |
| 2018 | Speaker, IVF Australia, Maroubra, IVF and acupuncture research and clinical approaches |
| 2018 | Guest lecturer, University of Technology Sydney, fourth-year Chinese medicine students |
| 2017 | Speaker, Australasian Integrative Medicine Association seminar, Sydney |
| 2014 | Speaker, Melbourne IVF, acupuncture treatment for poor IVF responders |
| 2014 | Speaker, Mercy Hospital Heidelberg midwife graduate program, acupuncture in pregnancy |
| 2014 | Speaker, Epworth Freemasons and the Royal Women’s Hospital, acupuncture in pregnancy |
| 2012 | Speaker, Melbourne IVF, acupuncture during IVF and clinical trials |
I also created and chaired the Alexandria Multidisciplinary Education Series with Associate Professor Gavin Sacks, Clinical Director of IVF Australia — seven monthly meetings featuring more than twenty speakers.
Teaching and mentoring
I run a six-month integrative Chinese medicine mentorship program in fertility, IVF, women’s health and pregnancy, and have mentored more than ten practitioners from new graduates to practitioners with fifteen years’ experience.
I contributed to the development of an integrative medicine education program for general practitioners at Western Sydney University.
I have delivered education to fertility nurses, IVF specialists, obstetricians, midwives, GPs and Chinese medicine practitioners.
Professional positions
Managing Director, The Acupuncture Pregnancy Clinic Group since April 2022
Director, The Acupuncture Pregnancy Clinic Alexandria since 2018
Deputy Chair, Acupuncture Now Australia since 2026