CfPA-The Center for Professional Advancement, New Brunswick, NJ
June 9-10, 2016
Who Should Attend?
This broadly based course is intended for operators, troubleshooters and all scientists and technologists concerned with the development and processing of softgels capsules products and with related regulatory affairs. The material will be presented in such a way as to be of value to a varying level of expertise. This course will especially benefit those in:
• Formulating
• Manufacturing/Production
• Engineering Support
• R&D
• Quality Assurance
• Marketing
• Validation
• Purchasing
• Regulatory Affairs Course Description
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Invited Speakers:
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| Dr. Cecil W. Propst; Vice President Scientific Affairs, Team Engineering Services, Kalamazoo MI |
Dr. Cecil W. Propst is Director Scientific Affairs for Team Engineering Service, a formulation, and engineering support firm located in Kalamazoo Mi. He was Director of R&D (Grand Haven site) at SPI Pharma until semi retirement in 2015. He served as Director of Quality Assurance and Technical Services at Fleming and Company, and before that, President of Manufacturing Chemists. His duties included system design, product and process development and regulatory affairs. Previously, he served as cGMP Facilities Director for the University of Maryland at Baltimore, in connection with the University’s SPAC contract with the FDA. Dr. Propst also served as Director of Technical Development for Stellar Manufacturing; Director of Quality Compliance for SmithKline Beecham; Director, Quality Assurance for Norcliff Thayer (a Revlon Company); and Group Leader/Product Development and Manager/Quality Control for Lewis Howe Company. He also serves as a consultant in the area of product development and process investigations for the chemical, diagnostic, food, engineering and beverage industries.
| Ronnie Bayless; Special Projects Scientist, Captek Softgel International |
Ronnie Bayless, is a Special Projects Scientist for Captek Softgel International, a softgel capsule contract manufacturer. Prior to joining Captek he was a consultant/owner in the area of Softgel development/processing for Bayless Technologies, Inc. Mr. Bayless has over 25 years of practical, hands-on experience in many areas of polymer science from Research and Development to solving manufacturing process problems. He specializes in the areas of paintball and pharmaceutical softgel technologies, medical polymers, and polymer characterization and is experienced in employing scientific methods to develop new technologies, new products, and processes including complete implementation into manufacturing and the application of Statistical Process Control and Design of Experiments methods to improve process quality.
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Formal sessions of the course are supplemented with informal discussion periods between lecturers and course participants. Problem-solving sessions are held on both an open and private basis.