Ms.Stephanie Cooke

Stephanie Cooke is the President/CEO of Cooke Consulting, Inc., using her 20 years of experience to provide global consulting services in various areas of Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance and validation for pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, medical device and nutraceutical firms. Her broad-based experience includes preparation of regulatory dossiers for human and animal pharmaceutical and biotech products, drug/device combination products and medical devices in all stages of development (INDs, NDAs, post-marketing, orphan drug submissions, 510ks, PMAs and HDEs). She also has extensive QA and validation experience, hosting many compliance audits conducted by FDA, ISO and other international regulatory bodies, conduct/management of auditing program to qualify contract manufacturers and vendors of raw materials, APIs, product release experience in manufacturing environments and for companies using contract manufacturers, responsibility for QMS for all product types (CAPA, Complaint, Document Control systems), stability programs, as well as preparation/performance of manufacturing process validation, sterilization validation (EtO, steam, gamma), aseptic processing, qualification of cleanrooms/water systems and qualification of equipment.

Stephanie worked for Sciele Pharma from 2005-2009 and was VP of Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance/Validation for Sciele, leaving in 2009 to start Cooke Consulting. She also held various senior RA, QA and validation positions at Merial, Bayer, Cryolife, Theragenics and other pharmaceutical, biotech and device companies, after beginning in industry as a lab tech and as a certified as a Microbiologist. She has a BS in Biology and an M.S. in Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry.