Health E-Insights


  • An Interview with Adam Ismail

    An Interview with Adam Ismail

    Adam Ismail has served as the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3’s (GOED) first executive director for more than five years and oversees all organizational development for new and existing members.
    Sheldon Baker 01.20.12

  • Cognitive Function | Vitamins
    An Interview with Edward Lee

    An Interview with Edward Lee

    Edward Lee, PhD, is president and founder of AIDP, Inc. Founded in 1996, AIDP has grown to one of the largest ingredient suppliers to the dietary supplement industry.
    Sheldon Baker 01.13.12

  • An Interview with Darin Skaggs

    An Interview with Darin Skaggs

    Darin Skaggs is the director of services at Darwin Chambers Co. with responsibility for the service department, after-market parts, quality control and the IT department.
    Sheldon Baker 01.06.12

  • Dietary Supplements | Minerals | Vitamins
    An Interview with Carl Hyland

    An Interview with Carl Hyland

    Carl Hyland is director of membership development for the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN). Mr. Hyland has more than 25 years of experience in business development, sales, marketing and operations within the dietary supplement, ingredients and natural foods industries.
    Sheldon Baker 12.30.11

  • An Interview with Chris Oesterheld

    An Interview with Chris Oesterheld

    Chris Oesterheld is assistant vice president with Parsippany, NJ-based Jiaherb, an NSF-GMP certified manufacturer of quality herbal extract and natural ingredients for the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food and beverage industries.
    Sheldon Baker 12.23.11

  • Dietary Supplements
    An Interview with Steven Dentali, PhD

    An Interview with Steven Dentali, PhD

    Steven Dentali, PhD, is chief science officer at the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) where his duties include helping to set quality standards for the botanical products industry and providing guidance and advice to AHPA member companies, related organizations, government agencies, scientific publications and the popular press.
    Sheldon Baker 12.16.11

  • An Interview with Ephi Eyal

    An Interview with Ephi Eyal

    Ephi Eyal is the president and CEO of IFP, Inc. a multiple site manufacturing company whose 200 employees are committed to leadership in powdered product innovation for the food and nutraceutical industries.
    Sheldon Baker 12.09.11

  • Contract Manufacturing
    An Interview with Shaheen Majeed

    An Interview with Shaheen Majeed

    Marketing director Shaheen Majeed knows Sabinsa from the ground up. When he was just 17, Mr. Majeed began in the warehouse of the company his father founded in 1988, followed by a stint in customer service. He then handled a variety of sales positions, which included Tri-State region sales, California sales manager and Latin American business development, a responsibility he still handles in addition to his role as marketing director.
    Sheldon Baker 12.02.11

  • Antioxidants | Dietary Supplements | Healthy Aging
    An Interview with Dr. Nancy Childs

    An Interview with Dr. Nancy Childs

    Nancy Childs, PhD, is professor of food marketing in the Erivan K. Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA. She has more than 100 publications, proceedings and book chapters addressing nutrition marketing and health claim policy, obesity and consumer and commercialization issues with functional foods.
    Sheldon Baker 11.25.11

  • Eye Health | Fatty Acids | Inflammation
    An Interview with Rhonda Witwer

    An Interview with Rhonda Witwer

    Rhonda Witwer is the senior business development manager of nutrition for National Starch Food Innovation, based in Bridgewater, NJ. She manages Hi-maize resistant starch and Hi-maize whole grain flour for the North American market for National Starch and was responsible for building recognition for natural resistant starch’s important health benefits in glycemic health and weight control within the food industry and health professional communities.
    Sheldon Baker 11.18.11

  • Contract Manufacturing | Dietary Supplements | Regulations
    An Interview with Rakesh Amin

    An Interview with Rakesh Amin

    Rakesh Amin is a partner at the Chicago-based law firm of Amin Talati. Amin practices Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. Customs, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and related regulatory and litigation matters.
    Sheldon Baker 11.11.11

  • Dietary Supplements
    An interview with Raymond Francis

    An interview with Raymond Francis

    Raymond Francis is a chemist by training, a graduate of M.I.T. and an internationally recognized leader in the field of optimal-health maintenance. He is the author of the bestselling books Never Be Sick Again, Never Be Fat Again and now Never Fear Cancer Again. He is the creator of a revolutionary new concept of health that is simple enough to be taught to a child and powerful enough to cure terminal cancer.
    Sheldon Baker 11.04.11

  • An Interview with Dr. Stephen DeFelice

    An Interview with Dr. Stephen DeFelice

    Stephen L. DeFelice, MD, is the founder and chairman of the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine, a non-profit organization established in 1976 to accelerate medical discovery by establishing a more productive clinical research community. He is also credited with coining the term “nutraceutical,” which is now in the Oxford English dictionary.
    Sheldon Baker 10.28.11

  • Dietary Supplements | Sports Nutrition
    An Interview with Scott Steil

    An Interview with Scott Steil

    Scott Steil is an international executive skilled in business development, management, sales, marketing and strategic planning. He graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology and a concentration in economics. He began working for F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Duluth, Minnesota in 1991 as a territory manager.
    Sheldon Baker 10.21.11

  • An Interview with Chris Simmons

    An Interview with Chris Simmons

    Christopher “Chris” Simmons is CEO of Neotrope and Send2Press, a privately-held California company providing best-in-class personalized and targeted news distribution Direct-to-Editors, along with professional press release writing. In addition to sending news directly to working journalists, freelancers, and print and broadcast media, Send2Press places news into clipping services, online news sources and social networks, aggregation partners worldwide, and deep into search engines.
    Sheldon Baker 10.14.11

  • Regulations
    An Interview with Jason Simon

    An Interview with Jason Simon

    As a senior vice president at Mesirow Financial, Jason Simon works closely with large, commercial clients to evaluate and secure competitive property and casualty insurance programs. He is responsible for various aspects of the marketing process, including preparing market submissions, performing coverage analysis, developing premium summaries and delivering coverage comparisons to clients and prospects.
    Sheldon Baker 10.07.11

  • An Interview with Robert Thompson

    An Interview with Robert Thompson

    Robert Thompson is board chairman of Algae Biosciences, Inc. and chairman of the board of QuoteMedia, Inc., a publicly traded company, as well as managing director of CanAm Capital Partners LLC, a corporate finance advisory firm, and president of Corpus Investments Inc., a private holding company.
    Sheldon Baker 09.30.11

  • Dietary Supplements | Fatty Acids
    An Interview with Dr. Tom Potisk

    An Interview with Dr. Tom Potisk

    One of America’s top natural healthcare practitioners, Dr. Tom Potisk is a leader in his field. He was elected Chiropractor of the Year, is published and lectures extensively in his community, helps thousands of patients in the holistic practice he began in 1985, and has presented a research case study at a conference in Paris, France.
    Sheldon Baker 09.23.11

  • An Interview with Sharrann Simmons

    An Interview with Sharrann Simmons

    Sharrann Simmons has more than 20 years of experience in the food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. She is currently the director of product marketing for Silliker, Inc., a Merieux NutriSciences Company. Silliker is a global leader in food safety and quality, and serves as a trusted partner to assure food quality, safety, and better nutrition across the supply chain worldwide.
    Sheldon Baker 09.16.11

  • Enzymes | Minerals | Vitamins
    An Interview with Dr. Paul Nemiroff

    An Interview with Dr. Paul Nemiroff

    Dr. Paul Nemiroff is a board certified head and neck surgeon who received his MD from UCLA Medical Center. He completed his surgical residencies at UCLA/Cedars Sinai and University of Florida, and holds a PhD from Purdue University in Behavior Sciences/Psychology and has practiced as a psychologist. He has published and presented hundreds of articles, research papers and book chapters on surgical techniques, the psychology of decision making and alternative and complementary medical therapies.
    Sheldon Baker 09.09.11

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