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Dr. Layloff is currently Senior Quality Assurance Advisor for the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS, pfscm.org), “President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.” He is on sabbatical from his permanent position as Principal Program Associate for Pharmaceutical Quality in the Center for Pharmaceutical Management, Management Sciences for Health (msh.org) assisting in pharmaceutical quality issues in international commerce and developing nations. He also is a Special Government Employee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) as a member of the Manufacturing Advisory Sub-Committee and Past-Chair of the Pharmaceutical Analytical Technology (PAT) Sub-Committee. These committees are advisory to CDER in the development of a guidance documents which will address the incorporation of new technologies into the approval and inspection processes. Prior to joining MSH he was employed by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) as Vice-President and Director of the Pharmaceutical Division (Rockville, MD). He also previously served in CDER as Associate Director for Standards Development (Rockville, MD) and for over 20 years as the Director of FDA’s leading pharmaceutical testing laboratory in St. Louis, MO. He was elected to serve two-five year terms on the USP Committee of Revision where he was a member of two Chemistry Revision Sub-Committees, Chair of the General Chapters Sub-Committee, member of the Reference Standards Committee, and member of the Division of Standards Development Executive Committee (policy-setting body for USP standards) and it’s Chair. He is very active in the FDA and California Separation Science Society jointly sponsored WCBP (formerly the Well-Characterized Biotechnology Pharmaceuticals) symposium series where he served as Co-Chair of the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 meetings, and member and past-Chair of the Permanent Organizing Committee (www.casss.org ). He is Past-President and elected Fellow of AOAC International, and elected Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. He is a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Lambda Upsilon honor societies. He received BA/BS degrees in Chemistry and an MS in Organic Chemistry from Washington University (St. Louis, MO), and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Kansas (Lawrence). |
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Recent Updates:
2008 July 14 - Bio updated.
2008 July 14 - Added APPENDIX M: Physical Surveillance for Medical Commodities, A publication of the US Defense Personnel Support Center.
2007 December 05 - Added two publications to the FDA page, Quality Assurance in an FDA Laboratory and System Suitability Tests in Regulatory Liquid and Gas Chromatographic Methods: Adjustments Versus Modifications.
2007 June 03 - Added publication "Purchase Requisition System: A Comptuer-Based, Internally Paperless, Purchasing and Inventory System.
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Last updated July 2008. Questions or comments concerning this web site should be sent to tom@layloff.net.