Quality Operations Forum - Join Today!

Site and Corporate Quality Officers are quality professionals who have unique challenges related to successful product release and post-market surveillance to serve the needs of patients around the world. In these roles, quality professionals must stay abreast of constantly evolving regulatory expectations and requirements, while understanding the science of the products and processes involved at the plant. Join a network of your global peers to gain insight on successful quality operations in this age of rapid innovation!

Purpose of the Forum

To support site and corporate quality professionals in proactively implementing successful practices gained through a vibrant network of global peers collaboratively addressing contemporary and complex challenges.

External Intelligence Meeting - 1Q24

EU MDR - Challenges During the Transition: The QO Forum’s 1st Quarter External Intelligence meeting will focus on challenges related to the EU MDR Transition.

Topics include:

• Harnessing the Shifting Requirements

  • New/Updated Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG) documents - fast and furious!

  • Knowing which requirements to interweave with others (like IMDRF, etc.)

• How to be Inspection Ready (as best as possible!):

  • Key Learnings: Inspections Experiences from the front line

  • Shifting expectations and focus areas

  • Time for Q&A

    —> Access Webinar Recording and Slides

Join Us! Join the QO Forum Today to gain free access to this and all meetings!

How the Forum Operates

Site and Corporate Quality professionals engage in facilitated discussions with each other through a platform that provides consistent opportunities to reach their peers on topics that are most important to them.

Each member can:

• Select topic-specific groups to join

• Participate in live meetings

• Share relevant public news and documents with each other

• Invite each other to join initiatives

• Present topics of discussion

• …And much more!

Examples of How We Engage:

• World Café Live Meetings. We host live meetings each week, give the group a challenging scenario that could be release-decision related, or an employee conflict situation, etc. We put everyone in small breakout rooms, then switch-up rooms to network with other groups.

• Quarterly External Intel Meetings. The global site quality members span pharma, device, diagnostics, animal health, cosmetics and consumer goods. So much insight to share, and so much external intelligence being gathered. Members present their insights to share with their global peers!

• Expert Sessions. Members receive special invitations to meetings with the Chief Quality Officer Forum, and live sessions with experts on critical topics. Unprecedented opportunity to ask questions!

• Online Discussion Forums. We announce topics each week that members comment on throughout the week, wherever they are in the world. For example, Data Strategy, Quality Productivity, and Metrics that Matter. We post thought starters to get the discussions going. Members share resources, ideas and questions.

• Engage with Each Other: Each member can invite other members to join a live meeting they want to host on certain topics. Each member also chooses a “Chapter” to join that is specific to their region of the world. That way, they can meet in their own time zone!.

Ready to Join the Forum?

Join Today: To join your global peers, please complete the Registration Form and select “Annual Membership – Individual” as your Quality Operations Forums Level.

You will be admitted to the Quality Operations Forum upon:

1.   Successful completion of the registration form. Upon receipt of your registration form, Pathway will review your information and approve your application, or ask any clarifying questions.

2.   Receipt of payment. Soon after payment is received, you will receive an email with login information so that you can immediately start engaging with your peers in the forum platform.

Registration Cost: $150 per year (based on each person’s anniversary date). If you have any questions, please Contact Us.

Group Invoicing: If you wish to receive an invoice for a department, group, or team, please contact Michelle.Rich@Pathway4ph.org

Forum Leadership

The forum is led by Marla Phillips, Ph.D., who was a Site Quality Officer for Merck, and then led initiatives with global regulators for 14 years through Xavier University. As the founder of Pathway for Patient Health, Phillips leads the Chief Quality Officer forum and developed the Quality Science Education Program, which trains global students to join our industry. Phillips has a passion for making a difference, and looks forward to engaging with you!