ABC's Advisory Board

Bharat (Bart) Aggarwal, PhD, Ransome Horne, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research, Dept. of Experimental Therapeutics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Lise Alschuler, ND, VP of Quality and Education, Emerson Ecologics, Bedford, New Hampshire

Cindy K. Angerhofer, PhD,  Executive Director of Botanical Research, Aveda Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Wendy Applequist, PhD, Associate Curator, Missouri Botanical Garden, William Brown Center, St. Louis, Missouri

John Thor Arnason, PhD, Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Dennis V. C. Awang, PhD, FCIC, MediPlant Natural Products Consulting Services, Surrey, B.C., Canada

Bruce Barrett, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin

Marilyn Barrett, PhD, Pharmacognosy Consulting Service, San Carlos, California

K. Hüsnü Can Baser, PhD, World Health Organization's Expert Panel on Traditional Medicine, Turkish Pharmacopoeia Commission, Turkey

Rudolf Bauer, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy; Head, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Graz, Austria

Ezra Bejar, PhD, Vice President of Scientific Affairs, Herbalife International, Inc, Torrance, California

Stacey J. Bell, DSc, Nutritional Consultant, Belmont, Massachusetts

Bradley C. Bennett, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

Joseph M. Betz, PhD, Director, Dietary Supplements Methods and Reference Materials Program, Office of Dietary Supplements, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

John A. Beutler, PhD, Associate Scientist, Molecular Targets Development Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland

Keith I. Block, MD, Medical and Scientific Director, Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment, Evanston, Illinois

Kerry Bone, Director, Research and Development, Integria Healthcare, Warwick, Australia

Nancy Booth, PhD, Senior Science Consultant, Spherix Consulting, Bethesda, Maryland

Thomas Brendler, Founder/CEO PlantaPhile, Collingswood, New Jersey

Josef Brinckmann, Vice-President of Sustainability, Traditional Medicinals, Inc., Sebastopol, California

Francis Brinker, ND, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Donald J. Brown, ND, Director, Natural Product Research Consultants, Seattle, Washington

Paula N. Brown, Director of Applied Research in Biosciences, BC Institute of Technology, Burnaby, B. C., Canada

Veronika Butterweck, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Institute for Pharma Technology, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland

John H. Cardellina II, PhD, Distinguished Scientist - Chemistry, Technical Innovation Center, McCormick and Co. Inc, Hunt Valley, Maryland

Thomas J.S. Carlson, MS, MD, Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Integrative Biology; Director, Center for Health, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Ethnobiology; Curator of Ethnobotany, University and Jepson Herbaria; University of California, Berkeley, California

Chun-Tao Che, PhD, Norman R. Farnsworth Professor of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois

Bevin Clare, RH, CNS, Chair, Masters of Science Herbal Medicine Program, Tai Sophia Institute; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy; Associate Professor, New York Chiropractic College, Laurel, Maryland

Ray Cooper, PhD, Chief Science Officer, PhytoScience Inc, Los Altos, California

Jerry Cott, PhD, Pharmacologist, Silver Spring, Maryland

Paul Alan Cox, PhD, Executive Director, Institute for Ethnomedicine, Jackson, Wyoming

Lyle E. Craker, PhD, Professor, Medicinal Plant Program, University of Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Amanda McQuade Crawford, Distinguished Lecturer, Tai Sophia Institute, Laurel, Maryland

Edward M. Croom, Jr., PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi

Wade Davis, PhD, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.

Steven Dentali, PhD, Chief Science Officer, American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland

Subhuti Dharmananda, PhD, Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon

Hardy Eshbaugh, PhD, Professor of Botany and Assistant Curator, Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Trish Flaster, MS, Executive Director, Botanical Liaisons LLC, Boulder, Colorado

Paula M. Gardiner, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Boston University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Patricia Gerbarg, MD, Kingston, New York

Joe Graedon, MS, Author, syndicated columnist, radio host, Durham, North Carolina

Mindy Green, Green Scentsations, Boulder, Colorado

De-An Guo, PhD, Professor, Shanghai Research Center for TCM Modernization, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai, China

Prof. Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim, Director, CEPHYR Ltd. (Centre for Phytotherapy and Research), Cyber City, Ebene, Mauritius 

Bill J. Gurley, PhD, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas

Charlotte Gyllenhaal, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago; Research Program Manager, Block Center for Integrative Cancer Care, Evanston, Illinois

Mary Hardy, MD, Medical Director, Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology, Los Angeles, California

Christopher Hobbs, LAc, AHG, Herbalist, botanist, licensed acupuncturist, Davis, California

Freddie Ann Hoffman, MD, CEO and Managing Member, HeteroGeneity, LLC, Washington, D.C.

David Hoffmann, BSc, FNIMH, Medical herbalist, author and research associate, Traditional Medicinals, Sebastopol, California

Tori Hudson, ND, Clinical Professor, National College of Natural Medicine, Portland, Oregon, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, Tempe, Arizona, and Bastyr University, Kenmore, Washington; Director, A Woman's Time Clinic, Portland, Oregon

Maurice W. Iwu, PhD, President, Bioresources Institute of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria

Timothy Johns, PhD, Professor, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition; Centre for Indigenous People’s Nutrition and Environment, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Kenneth Jones, President and Medical Writer, Armana Research, Inc., Halfmoon Bay, B.C., Canada.

Edward Kennelly, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York

Ikhlas Khan, PhD, Research Professor of Pharmacognosy; Assistant Director, National Center for Natural Products Research, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi

Steven King, PhD, Vice President, Sustainable Supply and Ethnobotanical Research, Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc, South San Francisco, California

Richard Kingston, PharmD., CSPI,  President, Regulatory and Scientific Affairs, Safety Call ™ International Poison Center; Professor, Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Uwe Koetter, PhD, Principal and Founder, Dr. Koetter Consulting Services Lecturer, Medicinal and Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences module on Herbal Medicinal Products, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

David Kroll, PhD, Director of Science Communications, Laboratory of Microbiology and Genomics, Nature Research Center, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences; Professor of Science Communications, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

Thomas L. Kurt, MD, MPH, Clinical Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

Danna J. Leaman, PhD, Chair, Medicinal Plants Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Roberta Lee, M.D., Medical Director of the Center for Health and Healing at Beth Israel’s Continuum Center for Health and Healing (CCHH), New York, New York

Martha M. Libster, PhD, RN, CNS, AHN-BC, Professor/Director and Chair, Department of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, Governors State University, University Park, Illinois

Tieraona Low Dog, MD, Director of the Fellowship, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona

Douglas "Duffy" MacKay, ND, Vice President of Science and Regulatory Affairs, Council for Responsible Nutrition, Washington, D.C.

Gail B. Mahady, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois

Robin J. Marles, PhD, Senior Scientific Advisor, Bureau of Nutritional Sciences, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Will C. McClatchey, PhD, Professor of Botany, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii

Joe-Ann McCoy, PhD, Director, Medicinal Germplasm Repository, Bent Creek Institute/NCSU, Asheville, North Carolina

Dennis J. McKenna, PhD, Senior Scientist, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

Mark Messina, PhD, President, Nutrition Matters, Inc., Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Adjunct Associate Professor, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California

Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD, Private Practice in Forensic Medicine, and Policy Institute for Integrative Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland

Simon Y. Mills, Senior Teaching Fellow, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, England

Daniel E. Moerman, PhD, William E. Stirton Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan

Susan Murch, PhD, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Natural Products Chemistry, University of British Columbia

Nicholas Oberlies, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina

William Obermeyer, PhD, Scientific Advisor, ConsumerLab.com, Annapolis, Maryland

Joseph E. Pizzorno, Jr., ND, President Emeritus, Bastyr University, Seattle, Washington, and Editor, Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal

Mark J. Plotkin, PhD, Executive Director, Amazon Conservation Team, Arlington, Virginia

John Rashford, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina

John M. Riddle, PhD, Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

Aviva Romm, MD, Boston, Massachusetts

Robert Rountree, MD, Practitioner, Boulder Wellcare Inc., Boulder, Colorado

Ethan Russo, MD, Psychopharmacology Research and Author, Senior Medical Advisor, GW Pharmaceuticals, United Kingdom

Richard "Ric" Scalzo, President and CEO, Gaia Herbs, Inc, Brevard, North Carolina

Paul Schulick, Founder and Chariman, New Chapter Inc., Brattleboro, Vermont

Holly Shimizu, Executive Director, United States Botanic Garden, Washington, D.C.

Victor Sierpina, MD, Associate Professor of Family Practice Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

James E. Simon, PhD, Professor, Director of the Center for New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Ed Smith, Co-founder and Co-owner, Herb Pharm, Williams, Oregon

S. H. Sohmer, PhD, President and Director, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas

Michael S. Tempesta, PhD, Managing Partner and Founder, Phenolics, LLC, El Granada, California

Barbara N. Timmermann, PhD, Chairperson-Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Arthur O. Tucker, PhD, Research Professor of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Delaware State University, Dover, Delaware

Nancy Turner, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Ethnobotanist, Environmental Studies Program, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Jay Udani, MD, CEO and Medical Director, Medicus Research LLC, Medical Director, Northridge Hospital Integrative Medicine Program, Northridge, California

Roy Upton, Executive Director, American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, Scotts Valley, California

Daniel T. Wagner, RPh, MBA, PharmD, Owner, Nutri-Farmacy, Wildwood, Pennsylvania

John Weeks, Publisher-Editor, The Integrator Blog News and Reports, Seattle, Washington

Andrew T. Weil, MD, Author, Director of the Program in Integrative Medicine and Associate Director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

David Winston, RH (AHG), Director, Herbal Therapeutics Research Library, Herbalist and Alchemist Inc, Washington, New Jersey

Jacqueline C. Wootton, MEd, President, Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc; Director, HerbMed® HerbMedPro™, Potomac, Maryland

Peiying Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of General Oncology, Section of Integrative Medicine, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Eric L. Yarnell, ND, Assistant Professor, Bastyr University, Kenmore, Washington