Alexander G. Schauss, PhD, FACN, CFS is the Founder, CEO and Senior Director of Research at the scientific and regulatory consulting company, AIBMR Life Sciences, Inc., founded in 1978. At AIBMR, Dr. Schauss assisted over 500 companies in over fifty countries to achieve commercial success for a wide range of inventions and consumer products. He is also the author of over 150 peer-reviewed papers, 38 chapters, and 23 books.

He has studied nutrition and botanical medicine since 1969, when he performed his first clinical trial on the use of high dose oral vitamin C and its effects on opioid receptors in the treatment of heroin addiction; a landmark study that attracted the attention of two-time Nobel Laureate, Dr. Linus Pauling. With a pedigree of Life Science accomplishments, Dr. Schauss has been the recipient of numerous awards including the 1983 McCarrison Society Lecture Award; the 1987 Don Peppar Humanitarian Award; the 2005 Linus Pauling Lecture Award by the American College for the Advancement of Medicine; and recipient of the 2014 International Orthomolecular Medicine Society Hall of Fame Award.

He has served on several committees at t he National Institutes of Health (NIH); a reviewer of botanical standards and information monographs; expert panel member for the U.S Pharmacopoeia Convention (USP; a reviewer for the International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database maintained by NIH,) and served on numerous Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) expert panels that determine the safety of ingredients added to foods. In addition to serving on numerous Independent Determination expert panels for 23 years, he served on the Compliance and Label Integrity Committee of the National Products Association and helped develop the nation’s first Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) guidelines for the dietary supplement industry, much of which is today incorporated into the FDA’s GMP regulations for this industry.

Dr. Schauss has held faculty positions at several institutions as a Clinical Professor of Natural Products Research, Associate Professor of Research, Adjunct Research Professor of Botanical Medicine, and Lecturer in Biostatistics and Epidemiology. As a research associate at the BIO5 Institute and the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona, he is a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, a certified food scientist, with over 250 publications. Dr. Schauss is an active member of the Bioscience Leadership Council of Southern Arizona and is also on the UA Gem and Mineral Museum Advisory Board, a Trustee of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Member of its Science and Conservation Council, and a volunteer with the U.S. National Park Service at Saguaro National Park. Dr. Schauss maintains active professional memberships with the American Chemical Society, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, the Institute of Food Technologists, the American College of Toxicology, American College of Nutrition, and the America Society for Nutrition.

Dr. Sakr is a dual board-certified physician in family and sports medicine, having earned the degree of Fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice. He currently serves as Head Team Physician for University of Arizona Football and as a Sports Medicine physician at Campus Health Services. He has extensive clinical, research and teaching experience, serving as an Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh and Duke University Medical Centers.

Dr. Sakr has extensive experience treating athletes of all ages and skill levels, including pediatric, high school, college, professional and Olympic athletes. He serves as a Team Physician for USA Rugby, where he provides care for the USA Men’s 15s National Team and Olympic 7s Men’s and Women’s Teams and is a Member of the World Rugby Player Welfare Working Group.