43rd Meeting Agenda—October 14, 2011

National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NACCAM)

NIH Campus, Building 31/6C
Conference Room 6
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, Maryland 20892

8:30 a.m.: This session of the meeting is closed to the public in accordance with the provisions in Sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5, U.S.C. and Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2).
10:30 a.m.: BREAK

10:40 a.m.: Call to Order

Martin Goldrosen, Ph.D.
10:45 a.m.: Report From the NCCAM Director

Josephine Briggs, M.D.
11:15 a.m.: LUNCH
12:30 p.m.: Symposium on Natural Product Screening

Opening Comments and Symposium Goals
David Kingston, Ph.D., and Craig Hopp, Ph.D.
12:45 p.m.: Industry Experience With Natural Product Screening
Sheo Singh, Ph.D.
1:15 p.m.: New Methods in Natural Product Research
David Kingston, Ph.D.
1:45 p.m.: BREAK
2 p.m.: Advances in Methodology for Natural Product Screening
Louis Barrows, Ph.D
2:30 p.m.: Good Botanical Practices in Natural Products Research
Michael J. Balick, Ph.D.
3 p.m.: Symposium Discussion
3:45 p.m.: Public Comments
3:55 p.m.: ADJOURN

Michael J. Balick, Ph.D.: Philecology Curator; Economic Botany; Director; Institute of Economic Botany; The International Plant Science Center; The New York Botanical Garden; Bronx, New York
Louis Barrows, Ph.D.: Professor; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology; College of Pharmacy; University of Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah
Josephine Briggs, M.D.: Director; National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH; Bethesda, Maryland
Craig Hopp, Ph.D.: Program Officer; National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH; Bethesda, Maryland
Martin Goldrosen, Ph.D.: Director; Division of Extramural Activities; Executive Secretary, NACCAM; National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH; Bethesda, Maryland
David Kingston, Ph.D.: University Distinguished Professor; Department of Chemistry; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Blacksburg, Virginia
Sheo Singh, Ph.D.: Director; DPS Global Chemistry External; Merck Research Laboratories; Rahway, New Jersey