Aloe Vera CVs

1988-1991

Research Assistant, Bioresources Research Facility, Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson.

1990

Field Collections with Michael Moore, Author and Director of the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, Albuquerque, NM.

1983-1988

Research Assistant, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson.

1981-1991

Considerable experience as a math and science tutor for groups and individuals, including student athletes, at the University of Arizona and The Evergreen State College.

Technical Skills

Previous isolation and characterization of natural products from higher plants and fermentation broths using, but not limited to, the following techniques and instrumentation: collection and preparation of herbarium specimens, botanical milling, solvent extraction and partition on large and small scales, lyophilization, derivative formation, liquid chromatography (low, medium and high pressure; flash and planar systems on normal and reverse phase sorbents) on analytical and preparative scales, gas chromatography and infrared, ultraviolet, mass spectral and NMR analysis. On-line searching of Chemical Abstracts including searches by chemical structure.

Positions and Experience

Working Group Chair, Kavalactones, Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements, AOAC INTERNATIONAL with presentations given during the Mid-Year Meeting, March 16, 2018 in Gaithersburg, MD and the 131 st Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA, September 22-23, 2017.

Grand Award Judge, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Los Angeles, CA, May 16-17, 2017.

Poster Session Chair, 17th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals, Oxford, MS, April 3-6, 2017.

Moderator, AHPA Fifth Botanical Congress, Aloe Science-Focused Session, Las Vegas, NV, October 8, 2016.

Voting member 2007-present, NSF/ANSI 173 Joint Committee on Dietary Supplements.

Advisory Board Member, NIST/NIH Dietary Supplements Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) July, 2015.

Expert Committee Member, USP 2015 – 2020 Botanical Dietary Supplements and Herbal Medicines.

Member of the Organizing Committee, Poster Session Chair, and Presenter, 13 th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals, Oxford, MS, April 15-17, 2014.

Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, American Herbal Products Association, 2014-2016.

President-Elect, President, Chair, International Aloe Science Council, 2014, 2015, 2016.

Science Officer (acting), International Aloe Science Council, 2008-2013.

Session Moderator (Botanical Supplement Roundtable), Editorial Board Chair, and Attendee, 127th AOAC Annual Meeting, Palmer House, Chicago, IL, August 25-29, 2013.

Poster Session Chair, Presenter, and Member of the Organizing Committee, 12 th Annual Oxford International Conference on the Science of Botanicals, Oxford, MS, April 15-18, 2013.

Reviewer, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Special Emphasis Panel ZAT1 SM 28 “Centers of Excellence for Research on Complementary Alternative Medicine