the Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements

SPDS Meeting, September 22-23 – Chair and Presenter Bios supplements companies. She is currently a Research Associate with the National Tropical Botanical

Garden and has served 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 AOAC International Journal, and she serves on the

Advisory Boards of the American Botanical Council and the American Herbal Pharmacoepia. Holly has

over 20 years’ experience in natural products chemistry with botanicals and spent many happy years

conducting research on medicinal plants and giving courses at the University of Hawaii.

JOSEPH ZHOU, SUNSHINEVILLE HEALTH PRODUCTS Chair, SPDS SAMe Working Group

Dr. Joseph Zhou has been working in the dietary supplement industry since 1996.

He is currently the technical director of Sunshineville Health Products, Inc, in charge

of both products development and analytical methods development. He was also a

technical director in a few of other famous brands companies in the US. He has

been actively participating in the AOAC official methods program since 2002. His team established the

AOAC official method of Glucosamine. He was one of the important players in the AOAC single lab

validation projects for Chondroitin Sulfates and MSM, and was involved in many other AOAC methods

projects. Dr. Zhou is the author of the USP monograph of Arginine. He is an adjunct professor of

pharmacognosy at College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago. He was awarded by AOAC as

the Study Director of the Year of 2005.