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Roy Upton to receive the American Society of pharmacognosy Award for Lifetime Achievement

Roy Upton to receive the American Society of pharmacognosy Award for Lifetime Achievement
by the American Society of pharmacognosy - 8/22 / 2011On August 16, 2011 American Society of pharmacognosy (ASP) has announced the selection of Roy Upton, HR, DAy, as the winner of 2012 of the Varro. Price e. Tyler. The award will be presented at the ASP annual meeting scheduled for July 28-August 1, 2012 in New York. Named after the late Varro e. Tyler, PhD, ScD, former Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vice President of academic affairs at Purdue University and first President of the ASP, the award recognizes the contributions of outstanding life in the field of herbal medicine. Professor Tyler is a leader in botanical medicine based on evidence, including the drugs derived from plants and plant-based food supplements. He is the author of 250 articles educational, and scientific advisor editorial of Planta Medica other seminal professional journals and author of textbooks on pharmacognosy and many popular books. According to the Committee for the appointment of ASP, "" Roy Upton illustrates the standards and principles that Varro Tyler has to bring medicinal plants industry."" Roy has worked and practical professional as a herbalist since 1981. Trained in Ayurvedic, Chinese and Western herbal medicine, Roy is the Executive Director, founder and editor in Chief of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP); is co-founder, former President, Vice President of the American Guild of herbalist (AHG); and part of the review for the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) Committee and the Advisory Committees of botanical experts of AOAC International, the American Botanical Council (ABC) and NSF International. Roy is also visiting faculty to the Master of Science program in herbal medicine to Tai Sophia, Laurel, MD and complementary approaches and program of medicine Alternative to the University of Southern California, school of pharmacy, Los Angeles, CA. In addition, Roy is the herbalist of personnel for the Californian company supplements herbal, global Herbarium; is a member of the standards Committee of the American herbal products Association; and is an internationally recognized speaker and author of numerous scientific publications popular and peers, including the recently published microscopic characterization of botanical medicines. Through his tireless commitement, Roy made collective knowledge of herbal medicine international America. Through its efforts with the AHP, industry herbal in the United States has its own set of knowledge usefully contribute to a comprehensive discussion of herbs and medicinal plants. According to Upton, "If improve you the quality of herbal products, improve you the quality of the industry in the world." "Roy recognized a need that no one had seen him," said Michael McGuffin, President of the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) and member of the Board since long AHP. "AHP filled a vacuum where there was once nothing." Not only Upton acknowledged the need, but as noted the McGuffin, he had the energy and talent to fill this need. "There is nobody out there to do the best work of quality, monographs," said Mark Blumenthal, who founded the ABC and contributes to the writer and critical for the AHP monographs. "" "". "People are finding uses for its work well beyond the borders of North America".