Warning Label Expert Witnesses in Oregon

This Nutrition industry professional has an advanced degree in nutrition, and several years of experience involving the technical aspects of regulatory affairs, scientific affairs, product labeling, and research & development. His specialties: 21 CFR 101 (Food Labeling), 21 CFR 111 (cGMPs for dietary supplements), FTC advertising guidelines, regulatory compliance review, product substantiation, ingredient research and product development. In his current role as Manager at a Vitamin research company he is responsible for reviewing products, labeling and marketing materials for FDA and FTC compliance.

This expert has over 40 years experience in communication messages and interpretation. He currently conducts research concerned with the interpersonal tactics and message strategies that individuals use in the context of problematic social interactions. He also specializes in communicative intention and the adequacy/inadequacy of messages. This includes the question of how people are most likely to interpret messages in particular warning labels, advertising, contracts, instructions, waivers, and so forth. He has been recognized by the field as being among the "Top 1%" of the discipline's scholars in research productivity during the 1980's and 1990's. He has been an associate editor for several journals and has held several offices within the National Communication Association and Western States Communication Association. He has taught both graduate and undergraduate level courses concerned with interpersonal communication, language, message strategies, and empirical research methods.