Medical AdvisorsThe management team is immensely influenced and aided by the work and views of the Medical Advisory Board. Indeed, the company's emphasis on scientific rigor and integrity is underscored by the fact that Dr Leonard, one of the highly respected physicians on the medical and scientific advisory board, sits on the company board of directors. Daniel Saltzman, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S. Dr Saltzman is the Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, where he also holds the Arnold S. Leonard M.D. Ph.D. Chair in Pediatric Surgery. He is a practicing pediatric surgeon at University of Minnesota Children's Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota.In addition to practicing medicine, Dr. Saltzman is actively involved in medical research. He, along with Dr. Leonard, runs the bioengineering lab at the University of Minnesota Surgery Department. He has authored numerous publications and presentations, and has won several prestigious awards including the American Surgical Association Foundation Fellowship Award. Dr. Saltzman has a Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology, Ph.D. in surgical sciences, and his M.D. degree from the University of Minnesota. Liangli (Lucy) Yu, Ph.D. Dr. Yu is Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, and her focus is food chemistry and enzymology, nutraceuticals and functional foods, and food analysis. At the present time, she is studying the oxidative stability of various cold pressed botanic oils at the university. Dr. Yu is also currently a consultant to Kellogg's Company in Battle Creek, Michigan. She began her work at the University of Maryland in 2003 and, prior to that time, she was Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado State University focusing then, too, on food chemistry, nutraceuticals, and food analysis from 1999 to 2003. She served in various graduate capacities at the University of Iowa and Purdue University from 1994 to 1999 and received her Ph.D. in food science/food chemistry from Purdue in 1999. Dr. Yu served as Principal Research Scientist and Director of R&D Center, Nantong Jissic Cosmetic Company Limited in China from 1993 through 1994 and as a faculty member of the Department of Organic Chemistry at China Pharmaceutical University from 1984 to 1993. She has numerous patents and has written many articles that have been published throughout the world.For more about Dr. Yu, see the University of Maryland, Science & Technology press release, Functional Food Research Wins Yu Young Scientist Award. |
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