- Soaring Bear, Ph.D.
Technical Information Specialist (Ret.), National Library of Medicine
Dr. Soaring Bear has been collecting herbal data, with a focus on toxicology, since the early 1970s. He earned a B.S. in Biochemistry with honors and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Arizona. His doctoral research on structure-activity relationships and chemical interactions provides him with a unique perspective on bioactivity of herbs. He created herbmed.org and edited over ten thousand quick summaries and links into Medline. His work at the National Library of Medicine in the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) section included significant revisions of the herbal, alternative medicine, and chemistry sections of MeSH, which improves the quality of millions of searches done every day on the pubmed.gov database.