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Pharmacognosy at the College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois – Chicago (UIC), under renowned  Pharmacognosist and researcher Dr. Norman Farnsworth.  Holly was awarded a National Institutes for  Health (NIH) Fellowship and trained at the UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements.  She was a  Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for EthnoMedicine studying the etiology of  neurodegenerative disease, and also worked for Waters Corporation conducting technical training and  regulatory consulting for pharmaceutical and supplements companies.  She is currently a Research  Associate with the National Tropical Botanical Garden and serves on AOAC working groups, stakeholders  panels and expert review panels for Foods and Dietary Supplements.  She is a member of the United  States Pharmacoepia’s (USP) Medical Cannabis Expert Panel, the Editorial Board of the Journal of AOAC  International, and she serves on the Advisory Boards of the American Botanical Council and the  American Herbal Pharmacoepia.  Holly has over 20 years experience working with natural products &  botanicals and spent many happy years conducting research on medicinal plants and giving courses at  the University of Hawaii.    ‐‐‐  Mimi Park, The Nature’s Bounty Co.  I currently hold a position as a senior manager of Analytical R&D and Stability for the Nature's Bounty  Co.  We are responsible for evaluating, troubleshooting and improving analytical methods for use in the  QC laboratory for product release.  As a leading dietary supplement company, we have a huge stake in  the AOAC methods.  We run these methods on a daily basis and have vast interest and knowledge in  regards to the performance and challenges with proposed methods.    ‐‐‐  Catherine Rimmer, NIST  I am the coordinator for organic analytes in dietary supplement reference materials at NIST.  ‐‐‐  Aniko Solyom  I have more than 30 years of comprehensive experience in analytical method development and  validation, using a wide variety of analytical techniques. My expertise is in development and  validation of analytical methods with particular emphasis on HPLC, LC‐MS applications and  bioactivity guided preparative separation of complex mixtures and analysis of biological samples and  dietary supplements.  In addition to HPLC technique, I have significant experience with atomic  absorption spectroscopy (AA), inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy (ICP), photoacoustic  spectroscopy (PA), UV‐Vis spectroscopy, elemental analysis, mass spectrometry(MS), gas