From The July 2001 Issue of Nutrition Science News

Former FTC Official To Headline Nutracon

Anne Maher, the former assistant director of the Division of Advertising Practices for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington, D.C., will give the opening plenary address at the Nutracon conference, July 9-11 at the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina. This will be Maher's first public address since leaving the FTC in May.

Maher is likely to make a few candid predictions about the FTC's evolving strategy toward the dietary supplements industry.

"We are excited to have Maher on the program this year, and we believe she will offer valuable insights to manufacturers of functional foods and nutritional products," says Fred Linder, executive vice president of New Hope Natural Media, the conference's producer.

Overall, Nutracon's educational program will emphasize the industry's increasingly important partnership with government as well as academia and medicine. Other general-session speakers include James S. Gordon, M.D., director of the Center for Mind Body Medicine in Washington, D.C., who will discuss the relationship of the mind and body with medicine; Varro Tyler, Ph.D., ScD., Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, who will address botanical issues; and Stephen McNamara, a partner with Hyman, Phelps and McNamara, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm, who will deliver a regulatory review.

Nutracon is also introducing a new educational track this year. The Clinical Applications track is designed to help both allied health-care professionals and experts from science and academia evaluate the latest scientific findings on nutritional products and see how they are being applied in a clinical setting. Heading the track are practicing CAM physicians Chris Foley, M.D., director of Integrative Health, HealthEast Care System in Minneapolis, and clinical assistant professor at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, and Mary Hardy, M.D., of the Cedars-Sinai Integrative Medicine Medical Group in Los Angeles. The clinical applications track, which will be accredited for CME units, will round out the four existing tracks: science, marketing/regulatory, finance/investment, and international. For registration information, call 866-458-4935 or log on to www.nutraconference.com.