Roger Clemens - President

Roger Clemens

Roger Clemens, DrPH is the Chief Scientific Officer of the E.T. Horn Company, where he is responsible for providing scientific expertise to E.T. Horn’s Ingredients and Nutraceutical Divisions. In addition, Dr. Clemens is the founding and current columnist for the monthly Food, Medicine and Health column in Food Technology Magazine and is an associate editor for Journal of Food Science, both published by IFT. He also serves as an IFT media spokesperson and has been cited and interviewed by more than 500 domestic and international print and broadcast journalists' on contemporary health, nutrition and food safety issues. He has published more than 50 original manuscripts in nutrition and food science and participated in more than 250 invited domestic and international lectures.

Dr. Clemens was an appointed member of the USDA 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee with primary responsibilities in food safety, and dietary lipids and health. In addition to being a fellow of IFT, he is a fellow in the American College of Nutrition, a fellow in the Marilyn Magaram Center for Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics, and an active member in the American Society for Nutrition (ASN).

Prior to joining the E.T. Horn Company, Dr. Clemens worked at the University of Southern California for 10 years where he served as director of the Analytical Services Laboratory, associate director of regulatory sciences and adjunct professor of pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences. He also served as the Scientific Advisor for Nestlé USA for more than 21 years.

Dr. Clemens received a BA in Bacteriology, an MPH in Nutrition, and a DrPH in Public Health Nutrition and Biological Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles.