The Natural Products Association (NPA) announced that Corey Hilmas, MD, Ph.D., has been hired to serve as its new senior vice president of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs.
Washington/Press Release -- The Natural Products Association (NPA) announced that Corey Hilmas, MD, Ph.D., has been hired to serve as its new senior vice president of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs. The hiring is the third major personnel announcement for NPA in recent weeks, following the naming of Daniel Fabricant, Ph.D., as CEO and Devon Powell as senior vice president of Member Services and COO.
Hilmas, a medical doctor with a degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a doctorate in pharmacology and toxicology, comes to NPA after having served as chief of the Dietary Supplement Regulation Implementation Branch under the Division of Dietary Supplement Programs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for more than two years. During his tenure at the agency, Hilmas was a federal expert witness on label claims and dietary ingredient safety, and he will receive an award of merit at the agency on June 6 in that capacity. Prior to his most recent position, he served as senior toxicologist for Dietary Ingredients at the FDA. Before joining the agency, Hilmas worked as a physiologist and principal investigator for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, investigating the efficacy of two dietary ingredients -- galantamine and huperzine.