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“Current Concepts of Product Standardization and Quality Control”, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Colloquium: Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration with Industry, Washington DC, May 14, 2001. “Botanical Products as Dietary Supplements: How to Turn Over a New Leaf”, UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seminar Series, Chicago, IL, March 28, 2001.

“HPLC to LC/MS: Merits and Drawbacks”, Waters Nutraceutical Technology Seminar, Milford, MA, October 16-17, 2000.

“Botanical Standardization Madness: Making a Meaningful Botanical Standard”, DCAT’s Nutrition and Health Education Day, Newark Airport-Sheraton Hotel, May 24, 2000.

“What Are We Branding? Will Monographs, Trade Associations, and Standardization Efforts Succeed?” Presented at the Branding Dietary Supplements conference, The Center for Business Intelligence, Hilton Washington and Towers, April 17-18, 2000. Massachusetts General Hospital Psychopharmacology Lecture Series, Grand Rounds, April 8. 1998. "Uses of black cohosh, Cimicifuga racemosa (L.) Nutt. and Chaste tree, Vitex agnus-castus L., in premenstrual syndrome and menopause." Melatonin--Ephedra--DHEA--Street-Drug Knockoffs--Kava: What’s Next… And What Have We Learned? Moderator. Also Panel Member for “Answering the Questions on Standardized Extracts”, Marketplace ‘97, National Nutritional Foods Assoc. Ann. National Conv. & Trade Show, Las Vegas, July 13-16, 1997.

“Herbal Pharmacology, Kava & Ephedra” and “Panel: The Politics of Herbs-Earth Ecology” Pacific NW Herbal Symposium 1997, Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth, Wilsonville, OR May 24-26.

The First Annual International Botanical Symposium on Kava and other Medicinal Plants of the South Pacific, May 14-17, 1997, Kona, Hawaii, “The Safety of Piper methysticum , Report from the HRF Safety Review” and “Kava, The North American Perspective”. Topical Conference “Standardization and Validation of Methods for Characterizing and Analyzing Dietary Supplements” Jointly Sponsored by AOAC INTERNATIONAL, American Herbal Products Association, U.S.P., U.S. FDA, Baltimore, MD, October 20-21, 1996, “Guaranteed Potency or Guaranteed Concentration”.

Dentali Associates two-day overview of the herbal industry for Lansing Associates. Cultivation, Regulations, Sourcing, Processing, Standardizing, and Marketing of Herbal Products. Troutdale, OR, June 20-21, 1996.

Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, March 26, 1996, Guest lecturer.

Chaired, A Laboratory Symposium , an industry workshop sponsored by the American Herbal Products Association, at the Natural Products Expo West, Anaheim, CA, March 14, 1996.

Pacific Northwest Annual Herbal Symposium, Troutdale OR, June 8, 1996, “Panel: Standardized vs. Crude Herbal Products” and on May 29, 1995, “Yams and Progesterone, What is the Connection?”

American Chemical Society, 29th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting, Botanical Symposium, May 25, 1995, The American University, Washington, DC, “Standards of Quality for Homeopathic and other Crude Botanicals”.

American Association of Naturopathic Physicians Annual Convention, September 2, 1995, Portland, OR, “Thin Layer Chromatography”.

4th American Herb Guild Conference Aug 29, 1993, “New Work, Old Herbs”.

Pharmacognosy Instruction, Rocky Mtn. Center for Botanical Studies, August 25-26, 1993.