Pharmaceutical Packaging, Labelling and Artwork Origination Training Course

George Barrie (More...)

George Barrie is a Consultant to the Pharmaceutical Packaging Industry.
Until recently he was with Actavis where his role was to bring all elements of packaging design, regulatory requirements and production together and explore design-led solutions, thus aiding compliance and embracing forward-thinking across the packaging process and value chain. He headed up a team that provided a centralised ‘Packaging Centre of Excellent’ supplying Actavis operations globally. The team was and continues to be, driven by the philosophy of “Making Medicine Accessible”.
He started out with a background in design and subsequently moved into the print and packaging field 12 years ago where he gained broad experience working for a supplier to innovator pharmaceutical companies. Experience on both sides of the packaging value-chain has given him a unique insight into some of the key problems and solutions facing the Pharmaceutical sector.
He is an active member of a number of Pharmaceutical industry bodies and firmly believes that successful packaging design and development will be best achieved by a fully consultative process.

Tony Harper (More...)

IRCA Certified QMS & PS 9000 Lead Auditor.

After working for over 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Tony Harper provides auditing, consultancy, training and certification services for the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries and their suppliers particularly those implementing ISO 9000, ISO 13485, ISO 15378, PS 9000 and PS 9100. He also carries out Notified Body CE Medical Device audits.
He was instrumental in setting up the Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA), Pharmaceutical Quality Group (PQG) in 1977 and was its Chairman for 15 years. He was a Committee Member until 2005 and is currently a member of the PQG Partners Team who have developed the PS 9000 Series of documents. He is also a Trustee, Board Member and Honorary Treasurer of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI). In addition, Tony lectures on Quality Management at the Brighton University QP Post-Graduate Diploma course.
As the UK principal expert, he is working with the International Standards Organization drafting standards (ISO 9001, ISO 9004) and ISO 15378 for Pharmaceutical Packaging Materials and with BSI, CEN and ISO on Braille, patient information and tamper evidence. He is Chairman of the Braille Medicines Forum. Tony is also working on pharmaceutical artwork/origination guidelines.

Suzanne Ivory (More...)

Suzanne Ivory joined the Perigord Group in 2005 where she currently works as the Group Quality Manager for the software development, artwork management and printing sections of the business.
She has 18 years experience as a Quality Manager implementing and managing quality systems such as ISO 9001:2008 and PS 9000 in a range of companies which service the pharmaceutical industry including Printing, Finishing, Packaging, Artwork studio’s and Software development. Suzanne is a qualified IRCA auditor for ISO 9001: 2000, ISO 14000 and PS 9000.
Over the last 3 years she was heavily involved in updating the PS9000:2011 standard which was published on the 14th September 2011. This involved working with a team of industry experts from pharmaceutical companies and suppliers to the pharmaceutical industry giving her a detailed insight into the audit requirement and best practises within the pharmaceutical packaging environment.

Jan MacDonald (More...)

Jan MacDonald is a pharmacist by profession and is currently Group Manager for the Access, Information and Medicines Standards Group in the Vigilance and Risk Management of Medicines Division at the MHRA. She has undertaken a number of assessment and management roles within the agency. Prior to this she was principal pharmacist for quality assurance and quality control in the NHS.

Dieter Moessner (More...)

Edelmann GmbH, Heidenheim/Germany
Dieter Mößner has been working as Project Engineer Pharma and was previously a team leader in the Prepress area for Edelmann GmbH. He has been responsible for artwork services and for print data communication for the Edelmann group (www.edelmann.de) producing folding cartons, leaflets and labels for the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries in 13 sites world-wide. His job is to consult customers and artwork agencies in artwork creation, print data communication and typesetting workflows.
He composed parts of the “Technical Guidelines Braille on folding cartons”, published by the German Folding Cartons Association FFI (www.ffi.de), and the guidelines “Braille on Folding Cartons”, published by the European Carton Makers Association ECMA (www.ecma.org). He is Convenor of CEN/TC 261/SC 5/WG 12 “Marking”. This working group at the European committee for standardisation CEN (www.cen.eu) has created the European standard EN 15823:2010 “Braille on Packaging for Medicinal Products”. It has just recently completed the works on the creation on EN 16679 – the European standard on “Tamper verification features for medicinal product packaging”. Up to its publication in January 2013 the contents of the European standard EN 15823 had been transformed into an International standard ISO 17351 “Braille on packaging for medicinal products” within ISO/TC 122 packaging. This project has been processed within ISO/ TC 122/WG 9 “Accessible design” with Dieter Mößner / Germany as project leader.
He is also Chairman of the German working groups NA 115-03-01 AA “Braille on packaging” and “Tamper verification features for medicinal product packaging”. After six years being the Vice-chairman of the packaging standards committee NAVp (www.din.navp.de) at the German Standards Institute DIN (www.din.de) he became its Chairman in March 2013.

Christopher Waterhouse (More...)

Chris Waterhouse is Managing Director of iDi Pac Ltd, a member of the Packaging Collective Leadership team as well as a former Chairman of the UK Packaging Society.

Chris has over 30 years’ experience in the Packaging Industry having worked in a variety of roles and sectors; Packaging and Supply Chain strategy, machine operation and maintenance as well as Packaging Innovation and Development in Pharma, AgChem, FMCG, cosmetics and drinks.

Acknowledged as an industry “go to” professional providing support, networking and energy into growing capability in packaging.

Chris’s Employment History is as follows: -

iDi Pac Ltd, Petersfield, England 2007 to date

Managing Director

Passionate in “Solving Current and Future Challenges in Packaging and the Supply Chain. Sustainable solutions for today and tomorrow through a highly effective and skilled team.

Syngenta AG, Basel Switzerland 1998 to 2007

Head of Packaging Development

Responsible for technical Development on a $175mio pa technical spend. Consolidation and integration of legacy packaging team’s post-merger of Zeneca and Novartis AgChem businesses.

Global Fill & Pack Strategy Manager

Responsible for development of the Fill & Pack portfolio with innovation projects globally; USA, Brazil, Asia & Africa.

Gulf Oil (GB) Ltd, Silvertown, London England 1992 to 1998

Production Superintendent

Responsible for site operations and capital programme