Meet the Commissioners
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Ms. Barbara Nollau |
Ms. Nollau is a Director of Quality at Abbott Vascular, responsible for Validations, Reliability Engineering, Supplier QE, Microbiology, and Document Management. Prior to this, she was an Executive Consultant at Global Life Sciences Inc., responsible for providing professional services to the full spectrum of organizations within the life sciences industry. Before that, she held various quality and compliance-related leadership positions with Watson Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, Alpharma (now Actavis), and MicroMedia Systems. Ms. Nollau has 23 years of experience and increasing responsibility in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, spanning the areas of Manufacturing, Quality Assurance/Compliance, and Information Services/Information Technology. She holds a degree in Communications from Cabrini College, has completed graduate work toward an M.Ed. at Penn State University and has completed Certification in Pharmaceutical Engineering from California State University. Ms. Nollau is an ASQ-certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence, and is a member of PDA, ASQ, and ISPE. She is a member of the GAMP Americas Steering Committee and is serving as a Commissioner on the ISPE Professional Certification Commission. She is a member of the Technology Advisory Board for LSIT, and of the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Validation Technology and Pharmaceutical Engineering, and has published numerous papers and presented extensively on validation, 21 CFR Part 11, and related topics.













