Scientific Advisory Board

Our Scientific Advisory Board: Helping to Deepen Our Understanding

NewMark™ is a company that reveres the Wisdom of Nature but recognizes the indispensable role of modern science in validating herbal therapies. Our scientific advisory board is a team of medical professionals and research scientists who are actively working to deepen our understanding of the pharmacology of herbal and nutritional therapies using modern tools and through clinical practice. They are enthusiastically collaborating, sharing research and concepts, stimulating new directions in medical exploration, and guiding us in our work to preserve endangered medicinal herbs of the neotropics.

	Clockwise from lower left: Rafael Ocampo, Michael Balick, Roberta Lee and Paul Schulick; Rafael Ocampo, Tom Newmark, Steven Farrell and Taryn Forrelli; Robert Newman, Tom Newmark and Bharat Aggarwal.

	Aaron Katz, M.D., Associate Professor, Director, Center for Holistic Urology, Columbia University, author of Dr. Katz’ Guide to Prostate Health: From Conventional to Holistic Therapies
	Michael Balick, Ph.D., Ethnobotanist and co-author of Rainforest Remedies: 100 Healing Herbs of Belize and Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
	Rafael A. Ocampo Sanchez, Agronomist Engineer, Costa Rican Ethnobotonist, author of Index of Medicinal Plants of Central America and Conservation and Cultivation of Medicinal Plants (Conservación y Cultivo de Plantas Medicinales, co–author of Domesticación de Plantas Medicinales de Centro América, in 1995
	Richard Sarnat, M.D., Integrative physician for 25 years President / Cofounder of Alternative Medicine Integration Group; Co-author of The Life Bridge: The Way to Longevity with Probiotic Nutrients
	Roberta Lee, M.D., Medical Director, Continuum Center for Health and Healing; Co-director Integrative Medicine Fellowship; Contributing editor to Explore
	Robert Newman, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology; Chairman, Department of Pharmacology at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
	Taryn Forrelli, N.D., Naturopathic Physician, Director of Medical Education, NewMark / New Chapter, Inc.