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Honors
2001 – 2003
National Research Service Award (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; biologically active compounds from plants and cyanobacteria.
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
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society
American Herbal Products Association
American Society of Pharmacognosy
AOAC International
Botanical Society of America
International Society for Ethnopharmacology
Society for Economic Botany
Phytochemical Society of North America
AOAC OMB Meeting Book
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