About Dr. Jiang

Ming Tao Jiang, MD, PhD grew up in Shandong, China, the native place of the legendary Sun Liang, the Lord of Ginseng Digger. Dr. Jiang received his medical education in Shandong Medical University between 1979 and 1988 and later obtained his PhD in medical research (Physiology) in Ontario, Canada.

Before becoming a ginseng farmer in 2010, Dr. Jiang was a medical scientist and professor in heart diseases for over 20 years. His research papers (1) have been cited over 1,000 times as of 2017 for his pioneering work on the understanding of heart function in aging, ischemia and failure. In 2006, his conceptual-breakthrough work on heart protection via mitochondrial messengers was characterized as an important milestone by an editorial from the American Journal of Physiology (2).

Dr. Jiang has been a resident of Wisconsin since 1996 with his family. In 2009, his family moved to Marathon County in Wisconsin, where his wife Dr. Lu practices medicine as a spine specialist serving the local ginseng farmers and other residents.

Living around the ginseng gardens in Marathon County has helped him better appreciate the medicinal benefits of Wisconsin ginseng, a treasured plant in traditional Chinese medicine. After over ten years of hard work and many experiments, he has transformed himself into a skilled ginseng farmer, producing premium ginseng roots from 3 to 10 years old.

We invite you to share in Dr. Jiang’s wonderful ginseng harvesting story and his quest for self-fulfillment and wellness for all.

Dr. Jiang has been featured by China’s national public television CCTV in a documentary series “Ginseng, The Legends” as well as other global media such as the World Journal and New York Times (2020) in the US, TV Tokyo (2023) in Japan, and South China Morning News in Hong Kong (2023).

He has been active in volunteering in the local communities. He was the founding editor of Milwaukee Chinese Times in 2007. He is a board member of Project Access Inc., a non-profit organization serving the medical needs of the underprivileged in Milwaukee, WI. He is also a board member of the local Hmong American Center in Wausau, Wisconsin. He has won many distinguished community and commercial awards. He recently was a proud winner of the 2024 Chinese American Charitable Giving Award from United Chinese American Alliance for his philanthropy and community volunteering. In 2023, he was recognized as the Entrepreneur of the Year for Social Responsibility by the Wisconsin Chinese Chamber of Commerce. In 2019, he was awarded the Top Ten Outstanding Achievement Award for his community services between 2009-2019 by Chicago China News and Digest. He was also recognized as one of the "Top 40 Businesspersons for 40 Years of US-China Trade" by the Sino-US Times in California in 2019.

He enjoys hunting for wild ginseng in Wisconsin’s Northwoods and entertaining friends from afar.  You are welcome to join him for a special ginseng dinner next time you’re in town!

  1. A list of Dr. Jiang’s research publications and citations
  2. An editorial about “An Important Milestone” research by Dr. Jiang
  3. American and Chinese Language press reports about Dr. Jiang
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