The Berry Doctor, Paul Gross, PhD, is a medical scientist and former expert researcher specializing in the areas of cardiovascular and brain physiology. He has conducted and published extensive, award-winning research on the control of brain metabolism and blood flow, neurotransmitters, the cardiovascular system, bones and antioxidant drugs. While studying pharmaceutical antioxidants in 1993, he recognized a need for consumer dietary education about whole foods and their nutrients, including fruit phytochemicals, dietary antioxidant vitamins, berries and superfruits.

Dr. Paul has a Bachelor of Science degree from The Ohio State University, Master of Science degree from the University of Illinois, and Doctorate in Physiology from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

During his academic and research careers, he held positions as a research trainee with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the University of California-Los Angeles; research assistant for the Cardiovascular Division, University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City; neuroscience fellow in the Laboratory of Cerebral Metabolism at the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD; Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the State University of New York-Stony Brook; Associate Professor of Surgery and Physiology, Queen's University and Director of Neurosurgical Research, Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ontario.

Over 17 years as a university student and research trainee, Dr. Paul was affiliated with five universities, lived in five American states and spent three years in Great Britain. He has lived in three regions of Ontario and in the Okanagan Valley, Vancouver Island and Vancouver, British Columbia.

In 1986, the Karger Foundation of Switzerland recognized Dr. Paul's research on brain blood vessels, awarding him the Heinz Karger Memorial Prize. The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario appointed him as Research Scholar for 1987-92.

Dr. Paul has been involved in starting new companies. In 1992, he co-founded Neurochem Inc., a neuroscience biotechnology firm (Kingston, Montreal); in 1997, CroMedica Inc., an international clinical trials management company (Ottawa, San Diego, Victoria); in 2004, Berry Health Inc., a nutritional supplements firm (Vancouver). From 1994-7, he was a science analyst for the Neuroscience Partners Fund (Toronto), an international venture capital group investing in start-up neuroscience companies.

Dr. Paul was a founding member of the International Berry Health Association based in Oregon, serving on the initial steering committee as an industry liaison for the US National Berry Crops Initiative and the Caneberry Advisory Committee.

Over a 25-year academic career, he published 85 peer- reviewed papers or book chapters, and, in 2006, co-authored a book on the Chinese wolfberry ("goji", Lycium barbarum L.) with Xiaoping Zhang, MD and Richard Zhang.

He currently serves as a science and product development consultant to berry farmers, fruit processors, product manufacturers and media.

Awarded a first dan black belt in the Korean martial art of taekwondo at age 53, Dr. Paul uses whole food superfruits in the Mediterranean diet and is devoted to a fitness lifestyle.


GET DR. PAUL'S BOOK ON SUPERFRUITS HERE!

What is Dr. Paul's interpretation of superfruit antioxidants?

See it in Appendix A of the Superfruits book and read about it here in Nutraceuticals World!

Also: April 27, 2010: The End of ORAC click!