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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