HerbalEGram: Volume 9, Number 2, February 2012
American Botanical Council Welcomes 15 New Advisory Board Members
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The American Botanical Council (ABC) announced in early February the addition
of 15 new members to its Advisory Board. These esteemed individuals—with diverse
academic backgrounds ranging from nutrition, neurology, and naturopathy to anthropology,
botany, and biochemistry—are committed to promoting healthier living through
herbal and plant-based medicine. Advisory Board members volunteer their time to
peer review articles, papers, and other documents that appear in HerbalGram, HerbalEGram, HerbClips, and various
ABC publications. Additionally, HerbalGram
editors seek feedback and advice from Advisory Board members on issues such as
research questions, article ideas, ABC policies, book reviews, and much more.
The new Advisory Board members include a botanist, an ethnobotanist, 4
pharmacognosists and medicinal plant researchers, 2 natural product chemists, a
neurologist, 2 naturopathic physicians, 2 herbalists, a nutritional biochemist,
and an oncology researcher.
“We are deeply grateful to include these experts on the ABC Advisory Board,”
said ABC Founder and Executive Director Mark Blumenthal. “In many cases, adding
these people to our Advisory Board simply formalizes an already established,
long-term relationship in which many of these friends and colleagues have been contributing
their time and expertise to ABC and many of its publications as expert peer
reviewers.”
Following are the names and brief bio-sketches of the new ABC Advisory Board
members.
Wendy Applequist, PhD, is a botanist and an associate curator at the
Missouri Botanical Garden’s William L. Brown Center, an institution dedicated
to preserving traditional knowledge of useful plants. At the Center, Dr. Applequist
manages natural products discovery programs and research efforts involving
medicinal plants. She currently serves as an associate editor of Economic Botany and the secretary of the
international Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants. Her first book, The Identification of Medicinal Plants: A
Handbook of the Morphology of Botanicals in Commerce, was published in 2006
by the Missouri Botanical Garden and ABC.
K. Hüsnü Can Başer, PhD, served as the dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and
the director of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant and Drug Research Centre (TBAM)
at Anadolu University in Turkey. He is currently a member of the World Health
Organization’s Expert Advisory Panel on Traditional Medicine and the Turkish
Pharmacopoeia Commission. His research interests include essential oils,
alkaloids, and natural products research. In recent years, 2 plant species have
been named in his honor: Origanum husnucan-basari
and Aristolochia baseri. He is the
co-editor of the Handbook of Essential
Oils: Science, Technology, and Applications, published by CRC Press in
2009.
Rudolf Bauer, PhD, is considered one of the world’s
foremost experts on Echinacea. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy and head of the
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Graz in Austria. Bauer
received his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Hildebert Wagner, PhD—one of
the leading experts on adaptogenic medicinal plants—at the University of Munich
in Germany. From 2002 to 2007 he served as the president of the International
Society for Medicinal Plant Research. He is also the co-editor of Planta Medica and leads the Traditional
Chinese Medicine Research Center at Graz. His research interests include
quality control and standardization of herbal medicine and structural research
of biologically active plant constituents. Bauer was awarded ABC’s Norman R.
Farnsworth Excellence in Botanical Research Award in 2010.
Chun-Tao Che, PhD, is the recently appointed Norman R. Farnsworth Professor
of Pharmacognosy in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, where he received his PhD in 1982. Prof. Che is the associate editor
of Pharmaceutical Biology and an editorial board member of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. His
research interests include pharmaceutical applications of herbal preparations,
quality control standardization, and the development of evidence-based herbal medicine
to support traditional medicine use in modern society. He has been cited in
more than 240 scientific papers.
Bevin Clare, RH, CNS, is a
licensed nutritionist and registered clinical herbalist based in Laurel,
Maryland. She is the chair of the Masters of Science Herbal Medicine Program at
the Tai Sophia Institute, an adjunct assistant professor at the Massachusetts
College of Pharmacy, and an associate professor at the New York Chiropractic
College. Clare is the current vice-president of the American Herbalists Guild,
a member of the board of directors for United Plant Savers, and an advisory
board member of the International Research Group for the Conservation of
Medicinal Plants.
Tori Hudson, ND, has been in
practice as a naturopathic physician for 28 years, and is a clinical professor
at 3 institutions—the National College of Natural Medicine, the Southwest
College of Naturopathic Medicine, and Bastyr University. Specializing in
natural therapies for women’s health, she serves as the program director of the
Institute of Women’s Health and Integrative Medicine and as the medical
director and co-founder of “A Woman’s Time” clinic, both in Portland, Oregon. Dr.
Hudson is the author of the Women’s
Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, was chosen as the 1999 Naturopathic Physician of the Year by the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, and is the 2009
recipient of the Natural Products Association’s Pioneer Award. She is also the
director of research, development, and education for Vitanica, a dietary
supplement company for women’s health.
David Kroll, PhD, is director of Science Communications and investigator in
the Laboratory of Microbiology and Genomics at the new Nature Research Center
of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. Dr. Kroll is also
Professor of Science Communications in the masters of science program in
technical communications at North Carolina State University. Previously,
he worked as a senior research pharmacologist at the Research Triangle
Institute and was assistant and associate professor of Pharmacology and
Toxicology at the University of Colorado School of Pharmacy. Dr. Kroll’s
current research involves finding anti-cancer and chemoprotective compounds
from milk thistle (Silybum marianum). He recently completed a term on
the editorial board of the Physician’s Data Query at the National Cancer
Institute’s (NCI) Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine and
serves routinely as a reviewer for NCI and the National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Douglas “Duffy” MacKay, ND, is
the vice-president of Science and Regulatory Affairs at the Council for
Responsible Nutrition, a trade association representing dietary supplement
manufacturers and ingredient suppliers. Dr. MacKay is a licensed naturopathic
doctor and works part-time at the Integrative Medical Center in Kensington,
Maryland. He is a delegate for the United States Pharmacopeial Convention and currently
serves on editorial boards of the Alternative
Medicine Review and the Natural
Medicine Journal. He previously worked in the natural products industry at
Nordic Naturals and Thorne Research.
Mark Messina, PhD, is the president of Nutrition Matters, Inc., a nutrition
consulting firm, and the executive director of the Soy Nutrition Institute. He
also works as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Nutrition at
Loma Linda University. His research interests include the health effects of soy
foods and soybean isoflavones. On these topics, Dr. Messina has given more than
500 presentations and published more than 60 articles. He was the 2011
recipient of the United Soybean Board’s Outstanding Achievement Award.
Susan Murch, PhD, a natural products chemist, is an associate professor and
Canada Research Chair in Natural Products Chemistry at the University of
British Columbia. She also serves as a research associate for the National
Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii, where she conducts research on tropical
plant conservation and development. Dr. Murch served as the president of
the Natural Health Products Research Society of Canada from 2010-2011 and is a
member or fellow of more than 10 scientific societies. Her research interests
include plant metabolomics, plant neurochemicals, and the conservation of
breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis). She
is the co-author of a recent feature article on osha root (Ligusticum porteri) in a 2011 issue of ABC's peer-reviewed journal HerbalGram.
Nicholas Oberlies, PhD, a
pharmacognosist and natural products chemist, is an associate professor in the
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. Previously, he worked in the Natural Products Laboratory at the
Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina. Dr. Oberlies is on the editorial
board of Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Compounds. He
serves the natural products community as an engaged scientist and regular
contributor and reviewer of the literature.
John Rashford, PhD, is a professor of anthropology at the College of
Charleston, where he teaches courses such as “Ethnoscience and Ethnobiological
Classification,” “Ecological Anthropology,” and “Gardens in Charleston: An
Ethnobotanical View.” His research interests include baobab trees (Adansonia gregorii), ethnobotany, economic
anthropology, and ecology. Dr. Rashford is currently president of the Board of
the Charleston Museum as well as a board member of the National Tropical
Gardens and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.
Ethan Russo, MD,
is a board-certified neurologist, a psychopharmacology researcher, and the
senior medical advisor to GW Pharmaceuticals, the UK manufacturer of a
patented, multi-standardized, clinically tested extract of Cannabis sativa. Dr. Russo previously served as an affiliate
associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of
Washington School of Medicine and a visiting professor at the Institute of
Botany for the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the author of the Handbook of Psychotropic Herbs (Haworth Press, 2001) and was previously the secretary of
the International Cannabinoid Research Society and the chairman for the
International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines.
Richard “Ric” Scalzo is the president, CEO, and founder of Gaia Herbs, Inc.,
a grower and manufacturer of herbal wellness solutions. His interests include
herbal medicine research, herbal formulation processes, and ecological
sustainability. Scalzo serves on the board of the Research Center for Natural
and Social Resources (CIRENAS) and is the author of Herbal Solutions for Healthy Living (Herbal Research Publications, 2001).
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