< About Alexander Schauss, Ph.D., FACN >

President/CEO

Alexander G. Schauss, PhD, FACN, is the Senior Director of Natural and Medicinal Products Research, AIBMR Life Sciences, in Puyallup, Washington. A former Clinical Professor of Natural Products Research and Adjunct Research Professor of Botanical Medicine at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon, he has held academic appointments at other institutions, including: Senior Director of the Southwest College Research Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona; Associate Professor of Research at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, in Tempe, Arizona; Director of the Institute for Biosocial Research, City University, Seattle; and, Lecturer in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Bastyr University in Seattle.
 
Dr. Schauss has been a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) Advisory Council (AMPAC); a member of the Ad Hoc Developmental Planning Committee of the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), a reviewer of botanical standards and information monographs for the U.S. Pharmacopoeia Convention (USP), and reviewer for the International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database, maintained through an interagency partnership with the Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agricultural Library, and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements. In 1985, Dr. Schauss was appointed by the US government to represent the United States as a voting member to the WHO Study Group on Health Promotion after being personally selected by Director General, Dr. Hafdan Mahler, of the World Health Organization (WHO), and confirmed by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
 
Dr. Schauss has studied nutrition and botanical medicine for over 30 years. He is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), an Emeritus Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, former Chairman of the Food Policy Council of the National Council for Public Health Policy, an Honorary Founding Member of the British Society of Nutritional Medicine, and Emeritus Executive Director of the American Preventive Medical Association. He is a member of the American Public Health Association, the American Chemical Society, the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals, the Society for Food Science and Technology, and an Associate Member of the Society of Toxicology.  
 
Dr. Schauss received the Linus Pauling Lecture Award for contributions in the medical sciences in 2005 from the American College for the Advancement of Medicine.
 
He earned his undergraduate, graduate (summa cum laude), and doctoral degrees at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and, California Coast University in Santa Ana, respectively. He completed post-graduate studies at the University of New Mexico, the University of Washington at Seattle, University of Washington at Tacoma, the University of Puget Sound, in addition to continuing education studies at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and California State University – Fullerton.
 
Since 1992, Dr. Schauss has chaired the Safety Subcommittee of the Compliance and Labeling Integrity Committee (ComPLI) of the National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA), the nation’s leading natural products trade association, founded in 1935. ComPLI oversees the NNFA’s GMP certification program and TruLabel Program and makes recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding quality and purity standards for products sold by the 5,000 members of the association. He is also a member of the joint American Herbal Product Association and NNFA International Committee and chairs the Asian Affairs subcommittee and is a member of the Latin American Affairs and CODEX subcommittees. In 1996 he was an NGO member of the US FDA delegation to the Codex Meeting on Special Nutritionals held in Bonn, Germany.
 
He is the author/co-author of more than 125 papers or works that have appeared in a diverse range of scientific journals, including: Food and Chemical Toxicology, Renal Failure, the International Journal of Neurology, Journal of Applied Nutrition, Biological Trace Element Research, the International Journal of Integrative Medicine, the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association, Natural Products Industry Insider, Health Counselor, the American Journal of Natural Medicine, the Journal for the Advancement of Medicine, the Quarterly Review of Natural Medicine, Nature’s Impact, Nutraceuticals World, Natural Medicine Journal, in addition to numerous contributing chapters in the Textbook of Natural Medicine (Elsevier Science). He has also presented numerous posters and oral presentations before annual meetings of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology that have appeared as abstracts in the FASEB Journal.
 
From 1979 through 1992 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Biosocial and Medical Research. He continues to serve on numerous editorial boards or as an editorial review board member for a number of peer review journals. He is the author or a co-author of the following books: Obesity: Why Are Men Getting Pregnant? (Basic Health, summer, 2006); Minerals, Trace Elements and Human Health, 4th Edition (Life Sciences Press); Acai (Euterpe oleracea): A Brazilian Palm Fruit (Biosocial Publications); Cat’s Claw (Uncaria tomentosa) (McGraw Hill); Nutrition and Behavior (McGraw Hill); Anorexia and Bulimia (McGraw Hill); Feed My Brain (Biosocial Publications); Zinc and Eating Disorders (Keats); Eating for A's (Simon & Schuster); Nutrition and Criminal Behavior (Brain Shuppan, Tokyo); Diet, Crime and Delinquency (Life Sciences Press).
 
He is listed in Who’s Who in America, American Men and Women of Science, International Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and Who’s Who in the World.
 
Dr. Schauss has been a part of the AIBMR Life Sciences team for over 25 years, where he brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the wide-range of services provided by this internationally respected consulting and R&D firm that in the period of 2003-2004 worked on projects in over 40 countries.