Personal invitation from Nutracon Botanicals Track Chair, Mary L. Hardy, Medical Director, Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology
As the chair of the Botanicals Track at Nutracon 2010, I would like to personally invite you to attend our afternoon session on Wednesday March 10.
People have been using herbs and spices to promote health and wellness for thousands of years but commercialization in the US has been challenging. Unique opportunities exist in the market today to combine the perspectives of traditional use with modern technology and scientific research. Given the complexities in this market, we have assembled an outstanding group of experts from a wide range of disciplines to address these issues with you.
Challenges arising in sourcing & identifying botanicals, including the documentation of purity and composition, will be discussed by Joe Betz, Ph.D., Director, Dietary Supplements Methods and Reference Materials Program for the Office of Dietary Supplements.
Dr. Ikhlas Khan, professor of pharmacognosy and assistant director of the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University of Mississippi, will address issues raised by FDA inspections in support of new GMP guidelines. As director of the FDA funded research program at the university’s natural products center, he has been involved in training FDA inspectors and so has unique insights to share with you.
To allow you enough time to question these experts (almost an hour), Drs Betz and Khan will be joined by Marilyn Barrett, PhD, President of Pharmacognosy.com, on a panel to discuss claims substantiation, validity and quality of botanical products in the new regulatory climate.
In the afternoon, we will hear from three academic experts how to use the full range of scientific methodology to support product development. Galen Marshall, MD PhD, professor of medicine and pediatrics, and director of the division of clinical immunology and allergy at the University of Mississippi Medical Center will focus on the rewards and risks inherent in investigating the mechanisms underlying the immune and inflammatory responses affected by herbs and spices.
Dr. Roberta Lee, Co-Director of the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel’s Continuum Center for Health and Healing (CCHH) at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, will share her expertise in putting traditional knowledge into a modern context. She worked with traditional practitioners for many years in Micronesia and has learned to take that wisdom into her practice in NYC. She will discuss use of traditional botanicals to affect stress and inflammatory responses.
Finally, we are lucky to have one of the foremost scientists studying the effect of spices on mechanisms of inflammation and carcinogenesis, Dr. Bharat Aggarwal, Professor, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center joining us to conclude this session. He will give us an overview of the research in spices and point us towards new areas of opportunity coming on the horizon.
As you can see, we have an outstanding program planned, so I hope you can join us on Wednesday March 10, 2010 in Anaheim at Nutracon 2010.
Mary L Hardy,
Chair, Botanical Track- Nutracon 2010
Medical Director,
Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology
