2019 AOAC Annual Meeting - Preliminary Program

Wiley Award Address (Continued)

ABOUT JOSEPH M. BETZ Joseph M. Betz is the acting director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health-Office of Dietary Supplements (NIH-ODS). He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (PCP&S), an M.Sc. in marine and environmental science from C.W. Post/Long Island University, and a Ph.D. in pharmacognosy from PCP&S. Betz spent 12 years as a research chemist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. Following his work at FDA, he moved on to become vice president for scientific and technical affairs at the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA). He joined NIH-ODS as the director of the newly created Analytical Methods and Reference Materials Program in 2002. In that capacity, he oversaw several large intra- and extra-governmental initiatives with the goal of providing stakeholders with rugged, validated analytical methods for measuring constituents of natural products in research, industrial, and regulatory settings. Betz is a 30-year member of AOAC INTERNATIONAL and a Fellow of AOAC. He was instrumental in the NIH/ODS-AOAC dietary supplements project, one of the largest, most challenging, and successful projects in AOAC’s history. Since 2001, the project has yielded more than 30 standards and as many validated methods for priority dietary supplement ingredients that reflect the needs of the dietary supplement community. He has been a member of the AOAC Editorial Board since 2009 and assumed the role of chairman in 2017. Betz is author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. He has received a number of awards, including the AOAC Technical Division on Reference Materials (TDRM) Reference Material Achievement Award, the American Botanical Council’s Norman R. Farnsworth Award for excellence in botanical research, AHPA’s Herbal Insight Award for contributions to the botanical sciences, and the American Society of Pharmacognosy’s Varro E. Tyler Prize for outstanding scientific contributions to the field of dietary supplements. He was recently recognized by the NIH Office of the Director with an Honor Award for his contributions to the establishment and development of the ODS Vitamin D Standardization Program.

10 SEPTEMBER 6–12, 2019 SHERATON DENVER DOWNTOWN HOTEL