The Health Sciences Team
The members of the Shaklee Health Sciences team have a wealth of skills, education, and experience. Their passion for the importance of nutrition and supplementation and commitment to education of our Shaklee family about the value of Shaklee products as part of a healthy lifestyle is strong and vibrant. Health Sciences is charged with creating clinical studies to validate product claims as well as advance the state of knowledge about nutrition and botanicals. You can hear them on the Monthly Hotline tapes, conference calls and see them speak at events around the Shaklee world.
Health Sciences has established long-term relationships with the various athletes and explorers that Shaklee has sponsored over the years, providing them with training, nutritional and supplementation advice that has led them all to higher achievements. They have published countless articles on nutrition, diet therapy, exercise, alternative medicine, and human metabolism. Dr. Jamie McManus's first book, Your Personal Guide to Wellness--What Your Doctor Doesn't Have Time To Tell You, was published in the summer of 2004.
Jamie McManus, M.D., FAAFP
Chairman of Medical Affairs, Shaklee Health Sciences & Education
Les Wong
Senior Director, Shaklee Health Sciences
Pamela Manning, M.S., RD
Senior Health Sciences Manager
Shaklee Research & Development
For more than half a century, Shaklee has been pioneering the field of health and nutrition with innovative, quality products using state-of-the-art technologies. Today, Shaklee Corporation employs over 60 highly qualified scientists who ensure unsurpassed quality, safety and efficacy of all product lines. Shaklee has invested over $250 million in product research and development, and clinical trials. Each year, over 80,000 laboratory and quality assurance tests are performed on our products and ingredients.
Led by Dr. Carsten Smidt, Shaklee R&D is organized according to our main product lines. Dr. Bill Mergens heads up the Nutrition R&D group with many high qualified research scientists, such as Dr. Laurel Fisher and Dr. Rosa Ubillas, and product development scientists, including Dr. Kuei-Tu Chang and Doug DeBernardi, who also oversees our package engineering group. Jim Greene heads up our R&D group for personal care, household and environmental products with Mukhtar Siddiqui supervising the personal care and household products research and formulation labs, and Jay Julos in charge of environmental R&D (air, water). Other functions in R&D include Strategic Research led by Dr. David Sweeney, China R&D led by Dr. Peter Zhang and Global Regulatory Affairs headed by Gari Ruggles.
Carsten Smidt, Ph.D.
Chief Science Officer
The Shaklee Opportunity
In its 50-year history, Shaklee has fundamentally changed lives by offering products that support health and wellness and by taking a stand for environmental leadership and stewardship. But there's more: Shaklee also changes lives by offering a remarkable earning and lifestyle opportunity via a well-established and fully legal business model. At a time when 95% of people would like to have a home-based business, Shaklee offers a way to do just that, as part of an industry that is predicted to grow to $1 trillion by 2010. People can work part-time or full-time; more than 12,000 new entrepreneurs join Shaklee each month.
