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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 products chemistry; analytical methods development & validation for natural products; ethnopharmacology; authentication & Quality testing of botanicals in commerce; dietary supplements regulatory compliance with 21 CFR part 111.

Botanical 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.

Membership in Professional Societies & Technical or Advisory Boards

American Association for the Advancement of Science American Botanical Council (Advisory Board Member) American Chemical Society (Cannabis Chemistry SD Member) American Herbal Products Association (Cannabis Committee Member) American Herbal Pharmacoepia (Advisory Board Member) American Society of Pharmacognosy (Membership Committee Chair) AOAC International (Editorial Board Member of Journal AOAC Intl.) Botanical Society of America International Society for Ethnopharmacology Society for Economic Botany Phytochemical Society of North America