AOAC OMB Nomination Review (June 12, 2019)

Honors

2001 – 2003

National Research Service Awards (NIH #1F31AT000064-01 & NIH #5F31AT000064-02) National Institutes for Health - Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research in Women's Health

2000

Charles Wesley Petranek Memorial Scholar University of Illinois – Chicago

1997

Meredith Botany Scholar Humboldt State University

Research Interests

Botanical dietary supplements; natural health products; natural products chemistry; sustainability & botanical sourcing; method development & validation for natural products; Ethnobotany, traditional knowledge & indigenous medicine systems; food & supplements law and regulatory affairs.

Field Experience

Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Peru, Guam, American Samoa, Western Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Sweden, Canada, the Hawaiian Islands, continental U.S.A. including California, Wyoming, N. Carolina & Florida.

Selected Service to Professional Societies & Advisory Boards

American Association for the Advancement of Science American Botanical Council, Advisory Board American Chemical Society American Herbal Pharmacoepia, Advisory Board American Society of Pharmacognosy AOAC International; AOAC Intl Journal Editorial Board Botanical Society of America International Society for Ethnopharmacology Society for Economic Botany Phytochemical Society of North America United States Pharmacoepia, Expert Panel on Medical Cannabis