Linda is a Standard Development Manager with the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) and manages a number of national standard committees in the Healthcare and lifescience area.
This involves monitoring international standard developments in many areas including medical devices safety, biotechnology, health informatics and genomics.
Topics covered under medical device safety includes;
• biocompatibility,
• sterilization,
• quality and risk management,
• clinical safety, labelling and many more.
Linda works with national stakeholders to provide feedback on behalf of Ireland on the development of International standards.
Prior to working in standard development Linda worked as an auditor with NSAI certification and Notified Body, involved in quality management system audits and reviewing technical files as part of the CE Mark approval process.
Prior to joining NSAI Linda also worked in the medical device industry as a Quality and Regulatory Affairs Manager.
John has worked in IDA for 22 years, joining IDA from its sister agency Enterprise Ireland in 2002. His IDA career started in in IDA’s Engineering Division. From 2006 to 2009 he completed a successful overseas assignment in IDA’s Silicon Valley Office. On his return from Silicon Valley John worked as part of IDA’s Clean Technologies Division. In 2011 John took over as Regional Manager for the North West Region and managed the expanded Border Region (North East and North West) for the period 2015 to 2019. John joined the Medical Technologies Department in February 2021 as East Coast Manager before assuming his current role in October 2023.
John studied Chemistry at Queens University Belfast graduating with an honours degree in 1992. Following that he joined Enterprise Ireland in 1992 initially working as an industrial / analytical chemist providing a range of services to Irish based industry, laterally working in a business advisory role with Enterprise Ireland in the North West region based in Sligo. While working John has returned to study a number of times completing a Masters Degree in Environmental Protection in 1999 from IT Sligo, a Diploma in Business Strategy from the Irish Management Institute in 2003 and a Masters Degree in Management from UCD Smurfit Business School in 2017.
Liz is Principal Quality Engineer in the Sterility Assurance team at the Galway Parkmore Medtronic facility. Liz has over 30 years of industry experience in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Liz has experience with EO, E-Beam, Gamma, Moist Heat and Dry Heat sterilization modalities as well as Microbiology Lab. management. Liz received her B.Sc. degree in Microbiology and M.Sc in Biotechnology from the University College Galway. She is a Certified Industrial Sterilization Specialist to the AAMI Credentials Institute and holds accreditation for CISS-Ethylene Oxide and CISS-Radiation.
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