the Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements

SPDS Meeting, September 22-23 – Chair and Presenter Bios Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Edwin Leigh Newcomb Memorial Fellow.

As a key opinion leader, Dr. Dentali helps guide the establishment of shared botanical standards via

engagement in governmental and educational standard-setting organizations including AOAC

INTERNATIONAL, the American Botanical Council, the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, the National

Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention. He maintains a particular fondness for

communicating basic botanical concepts and the importance of using a shared nomenclature in order to

help drive industry to higher sustainable herbal standards.

STEFAN GAFNER, AMERICAN BOTANICAL COUNCIL

Chair, SPDS Echinacea Working Group

Dr. Stefan Gafner received his degree in pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy,

University of Berne, Switzerland. After obtaining his PhD with focus on

phytochemistry from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, he conducted postdoctoral research on

cancer chemopreventive natural products at the University of Illinois – Chicago.

For more than a decade, Dr. Gafner has served as director of analytical chemistry in the R&PD

department of Tom’s of Maine. His current position is Chief Science Officer of the American Botanical

Council, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing reliable information on the

responsible and safe use of medicinal herbs.

HOLLY JOHNSON, ALKEMIST LABS Chair, SPDS Scullcap Working Group

Holly E. Johnson Ph.D., is the Laboratory Director for Alkemist Labs, an ISO

17025 accredited natural products testing lab specializing in identity and

potency testing of botanicals. Dr. Johnson took her Ph.D. in

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 worked for Waters

Corporation conducting technical training and regulatory consulting for pharmaceutical and