Stephen is a board-certified physician with over 25 years of experience in pharmaceutical and dietary supplement safety. Originally trained in family medicine, preventive medicine, occupational medicine, he transitioned into drug safety and later into supplement safety. He co-founded with Dr. Hector Lopez Supplement Safety Solutions, which provides adverse event monitoring, reporting and consultative services for a number of dietary supplement companies. Pharmaceutical drug safety and dietary supplement safety. He has published articles on Nutravigilance, and longitudinal post marketing studies with several large supplement clients and a leading manufacturer of CBD. These studies have demonstrated that dietary supplements have an excellent safety profile, with a very low rate of serious adverse events. Companies that have a consistent system for collecting and analyzing product complaints and adverse events are able to show that their products have a strong safety profile and can identify adverse safety signals.

His ongoing work is intended to combat the myth that dietary supplements are unsafe. He did his undergraduate degree at Fairfield University and attended Rutgers Medical School. He completed a Family Medicine Residency in Middletown, CT, and received his Master of Public Health from Boston University. Furthermore, he is the father of two boys, one an artist and the other an accountant transitioning to physical therapy, and he lives in Massachusetts with his wife and pug named Huck.