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Marilyn
Barrett, PhD
Pharmacognosy
Consulting Services
Redwood City, CA
Dr. Barrett received her PhD in Pharmacognosy from the
University of London, UK. She is the founder and principal
of Pharmacognosy Consulting Services. She has served
on several advisory boards with organizations such as
the American Botanical Council, American Herbal Pharmacopoeia,
American Herbal Products Association, National Institute
of Mental Health, Office of Dietary Supplements, United
States Pharmacopeia, Herb Research Foundation, and National
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She
has written and co-written multiple research articles
in various scientific journals including the British
Journal of Pharmacology, Phytomedicine, Journal of Pharmacy
and Pharmacology, Journal of Leukocyte Biology, and
Agents and Actions. She recently has authored the Handbook
of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies and Reference on
Evaluating Botanicals and she lectures extensively at
many symposiums and conferences on issues pertaining
to herbal identification, analytical standardization,
and pharmacological investigations of herbal products.
John Cardellina II, PhD
Developmental Therapeutics Program - National Cancer
Institute
Frederick, MD
Dr. Cardellina received his PhD in organic chemistry
from the University of Hawaii. After 4 years of service
as a US Naval officer, from 1981-2002, Dr. Cardellina
served as the Chaired for many Societies including the
Montana Academy of Sciences, American Chemical Society,
American Society of Pharmacognosy, and Schwarting-Beal
Awards Committee to name a few. Since 1981, Dr. Cardellina
has lectured extensively at scientific symposiums highlighting
natural products and their use in medicine. From 1980–1996
he held positions of Professorship at Montana State
University and at the Center of Marine Biotechnology,
University of Maryland. From 1989-1998 he worked as
Supervisory Research Chemist, and Senior Investigator
at National Cancer Institute. From 1998-2002 Dr. Cardellina
served as Director and Vice President of the Botanical
Science & Regulatory Affairs at the Council for
Responsible Nutrition, Washington, DC and simultaneously
served as the president of the American Society of Pharmacognosy.
Dr. Cardellina has published more than 170 primary articles
and is co-patented on 8 different chemical compounds,
their composition, treatment methods, and uses thereof.
Presently he is the Book Review Editor for the Journal
of Natural Products and for the Journal of the American
Chemical Society and holds a position as Expert Chemist
at the Developmental Therapeutics Program at the National
Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD
Ronald D Cotteral MD, MS
Director Sutter Center for Integrative Health
Davis, CA
Dr. Cotteral currently serves as Medical Director, Herbalist,
Nutritionist, and Lifestyle Management Specialist at
the Sutter Center for Integrative Health in Davis, CA.
Since 1988 he has practiced Family Medicine at UC Davis,
Chelsea, and Ann Arbor Michigan in a variety of settings
including residency training, community and underserved
clinics, acute care clinics, and full spectrum private
practice in multi-specialty medical groups. Dr. Cotteral
has had eight years of experience in teaching medical
students as preceptor, facilitator, and lecturer at
the University of California, Davis.
Dean Gray, PhD
Midwest Research Institute
Kansas City, MO
Dr. Gray received his PhD in Forestry and Phytochemistry
from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His primary
focus has been on the phytochemistry, analytical method
development, and analysis of crude plant extracts, herbal
dietary supplements, plant physiology, and chemical
ecology, including relationships between environmental
stress, mineral nutrition, and products of secondary
metabolism. Dr. Gray has published several research
papers, and made numerous poster presentations, interviews,
and oral presentations. He is a frequent lecturer at
scientific symposiums and conferences primarily presenting
on the analysis and quality control of herbal drugs.
Dean previously served as the Analytical Laboratory
Manager of Herb Pharm, Inc. Williams, OR. He is presently
Senior Scientist at the Midwest Research Institute;
Kansas City, Missouri.
Richard Ko PhD, PharmD
California Department of Health Services, Food and Drug
Branch
Sacramento, CA
Dr. Ko received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry
from University of California, Berkeley and his Doctor
of Pharmacy and Doctor of Philosophy from University
of Southern California, Los Angeles. His doctoral
dissertation
was in pharmacokinetic drug interactions. Since 1991,
Dr. Ko has worked for the California Department of
Health
Services, Food and Drug Branch as a Food and Drug Scientist
where he is actively involved in the regulation of
herbal
products and the investigation of herbal products related
injury and death. He has published numerous peer review
articles and has made numerous presentations in the
herbal products area.
Roberta Lee, MD
Continuum Center for Health and Healing
New York, NY
Dr. Lee is a board certified internist who received
her medical degree at George Washington University Medical
School. She completed a post-doctoral two year fellowship
at the University of Arizona’s Program in Integrative
Medicine directed by Andrew Weil, MD. Dr. Lee came to
the Continuum Center for Health and Healing as the co-director
of the Integrative Medicine Fellowship. Her integrative
medical interests are focused in ethnomedicine. She
has an Honorary Research Fellowship at The New York
Botanical Garden (NYBG) and is working with Dr. Michael
Balick, Director of the Institute of Economic Botany
at the NYBG on a project in Micronesia interviewing
indigenous healers and collecting medicinal plants to
preserve knowledge of their uses. She is a regular contributing
editor and writes a column entitled Notes from the Field
with her colleague Dr. Balick in the journal Alternative
Therapies in Health and Medicine.
James Reinhart, RPh
Therapeutic Healing and Learning Center
Whitefish, MT
James Reinhart graduated from the Oregon State University,
School of Pharmacy in 1972. From 1986-2002 he was Director
of Pharmacy at the Selma Community Hospital, Sacred
Heart Hospital, and the Emanuel Medical Center and maintained
his own practice in holistic therapies. He recently
founded a new center for holistic therapies, the Therapeutic
Healing and Learning Center in Whitefish, Montana. The
modality of practice is based in traditional Chinese
Medicine.
William Obermeyer, PhD
ConsumerLab.com
Pasadena, MD
Dr. Obermeyer received his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry
and Pharmacognosy from the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy
and Science in 1989. From 1989-1999, he completed post
doctoral research at the United States Department
of
Agriculture, served as a Forensic Toxicologist at the
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, State of Delaware,
and was a Research Chemist for the Division of Natural
Products at the Food and Drug Administration. Dr.
Obermeyer
has given numerous oral presentations, presented abstracts,
and has published on developing, testing and substantiations
of various medicinal botanical properties. Dr. Obermeyer
is currently the Vice President for ConsumerLab.com
continuing his primary focus which requires the extension
of existing techniques or technology for a rapid response
to specific concerns.
Jill Stansbury, ND
National College of Naturopathic Medicine
Portland, OR
In 1984, Jill Stansbury graduated with honors from San
Jose State University and went on to receive her Doctorate
of Naturopathic Medicine in 1988 from the National College
of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland OR. From 1990 to
present; she has lectured widely on Botanical Medicine,
served as Chair of the botanical medicine department
at national College, is Assistant Professor of Botanical
Medicine teaching Pharmacognosy and Botanical Materia
Medica, and Philosophy of Healing and Naturopathic Medicine.
She is a contributing writer for journals such as Medical
Herbalism, Nutrition Science News, and Protocol Journal
of Botanical Medicine and is also on the editorial review
boards for the Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, Journal
of Complementary Medicine, and the Journal of the American
Herbalists Guild, Jill is licensed as a naturopathic
physician in the State of Washington and has a primary
care practice in naturopathic medicine in Battleground,
WA.
Sidney Sudberg, DC, LAc, Herbalist
(AHG)
Alkemists Pharmaceuticals
Costa Mesa, CA
Dr. Sudberg received his Bachelor's degree in chemistry
in 1969 at the City University of NY where he was
involved
in drug discovery for cancer research followed by graduate
studies at State University of New York at Stonybrook
and finally at New York University in 1975. He then
studied acupuncture and western herbal medicine in
the
UK from 1978-1981. Dr. Sudberg received his doctorate
of chiropractic in 1988 from the Los Angeles College
of Chiropractic and is a California-licensed acupuncturist.
In 1997, Dr. Sudberg created Alkemists Pharmaceuticals,
Inc., an independent contract and research laboratory
dedicated to analysis, characterization, and identification
of botanicals by microscopy and HPTLC as well as methods
development, validation, constituent extraction, isolation
and purification of plant compounds.
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