Foundations of Quality Science Course
Welcome to the Foundations of Quality Science Course (Formerly know as: Global Regulatory and Legal Requirements of Quality Course (GRLR)) curriculum page. You will find each class listed below with the Learning Objectives, Instructor and link to the Course Content: video, slides, note-taking worksheets. You will find that we teach the “how” and “why” of what we do in our industry. As you listen to the classes, we invite you to always take a step back and reflect on how the information connects to the total product lifecycle. We often do that with and for you during the class, but your active reflection will enable you to implement your learnings. We hope you enjoy this program!
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Program: 43 Classes. ~20 Hours [2 CEU]
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Demonstrate why we have regulations
2. Understand the challenges in developing regulations that will effectively protect lives
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the challenges in developing regulations that will effectively protect lives
2. Consider how a Regulatory Authority can structure to define, monitor and enforce regulations.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the mission of a Regulatory Authority
2. Recognize the potential complexities of
regulatory pathways
3. Gain familiarity with the U.S. FDA authority
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the global landscape of regulations, through a few examples
2. Understand the importance of good quality practices
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how global agencies are working together
2. Understand how harmonization is beneficial to industry
3. Understand where our industry and patients are still vulnerable
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide a viewpoint of how a systems approach drives successful outcomes
2. Understand how systems enable consistency
3. Recognize the criticality of Management Total Ownership
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how systems support successful product development
2. Recognize the distinction between product development and realization
3. Understand how to group processes into systems to increase success
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Scenario 1: Follow the development of a product through the Total Product Life Cycle of Systems
2. Scenario 2: Understand how systems work when a Contamination Control Failure occurs
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the impact of the supply chain on patient safety
2. Understand a Paradigm shifting view of supply chain failures
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how to gain internal alignment on requirements of your suppliers that are important to you
2. Align on how well your suppliers meet your requirements
3. Understand the criticality of alignment prior to selecting a supplier and for on-going assessment of the supplier
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. How to align internally on supply chain criteria
2. How, when and why to engage the supplier
3. Understand the role and criticality of self-qualification
4. Understand the benefits of relationship risk mapping
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Striving for "compliance" is not sufficient to ensure good product quality.
2. Striving for good quality requires strong leadership and culture.
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Exposure to the overall drug development process
2. Understand the criticality of studying formulation and process
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Exposure to the role and function of various excipients
2. Overview of typical manufacturing process steps
3. Understand how to develop the process for the intended product function/needs
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the Quality Target Product Profile
2. Explain what “Design Space” is and why it is important to study/develop
3. Become familiar with what is “critical”
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Define a Medical Device
2. Exposure to Design & Development Process
3. Understand the difference between Verification and Validation
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Discussion of Risk Based Classifications for Software as a Medical Device
2. Introduction to Post Market Surveillance for Medical Device
3. Introduction to Risk and Investigation for Medical Device
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Awareness of the terminology behind human subject research and privacy
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the criticality of a well-prepared clinical plan
2. Understand the goals of the different clinical trial phases
3. Understand the difference between a feasibility study and a pivotal study.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Explain historical aspects of drug and device clinical trials
2. Introduction to regulatory authority oversight and guidance for clinical studies
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how clinical trial outcomes can be biased, misinterpreted, and not understood.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore a case study for design of a clinical trial.
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Examine the studies needed to support claims made on labels.
2. Understand the role of stability studies.
3. Realize the steps needed to counteract counterfeit
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an overview of various types of validation: equipment, product and process.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an overview of various types of validation: cleaning and computer systems.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Review of the various types of drug approval pathways depending on product type
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Review of the various types of drug approval pathways depending on product type
Instructor: Bill Brodbeck
Learning Objectives:
1. Review US market medical device pathways.
2. Understand the structure and actions of FDA during submissions.
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Exposure to what manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry looks like
2. Introduction into the controls needed for consistent product outcomes.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Exposure to what manufacturing in the medical device industry looks like
2. Introduction into the controls needed for consistent product outcomes.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the ways in which computer systems support operations and decision making
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand what needs to be done to protect computerized data and information
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize that change can have an impact on the safety and effectiveness of the product.
2. Understand that the risk the change might have on patients dictates the requirements needed for change approval
3. Explore the differences between pharma and device changes
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Metrics help give visibility into the performance of various operations and the product itself
2. Introduction to basic metrics that can be used across the product lifecycle
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand what artificial intelligence is
2. Understand examples of how artificial intelligence can be used
3. Understand how employees can trust the artificial intelligence outcome
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand what culture is
2. Understand how to affect the desired culture across the organization
3. Understand how culture impacts the quality of the product
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize when an investigation is needed
2. Introduction to risk categorization for failures
3. To understand the basics of how to conduct and write a failure investigation
4. Take you on a journey that uncovers common pitfalls
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how FDA determines who to inspect
2. Exposure to how FDA organizes their inspections through a systems approach
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn to think like an FDA investigator and see a facility the way an investigator does.
2. Learn to write investigational findings
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the enforcement tools regulators have at their disposal to protect population health.
2. Understand how global regulatory agencies work together to impose enforcement actions that impact worldwide market access.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the similarities and differences of legal authority for mandating recalls across the FDA and global agencies.
2. Exposure to the recall process and risk factors
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore examples of enforcement actions at various levels
2. Consider different perspectives in these activities
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Important Aspects of Post-Market Surveillance
2. Understand what active and passive surveillance means and why both are required