The Boston Section of the ASQ presents the
29^th annual Boston Quality Conference

 BOSCON 2009

Managing Quality in a Tight Economy

Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 8:30 to 4:30

The Conference Center at Waltham Woods, Waltham, MA

Program Schedule

Twenty Presentations in

Four Groupings to choose from:

Biomedical/ Drug

• Supplier Qualification, Performance and Risk-based Decision Tools

Jim Shore, Principal Quality Engineer, Corporate Alliance Quality Department Boston Scientific

Peter D. Ashe, VP Quality and Regulatory Assurance,
Brooks Automation

• Software Qualification and Data Analysis of Statistical  Applications:
  A Risk Based Approach Designing a New Process

  Judith S. Samardelis, Sr. Manager QA Validation Wyeth Biotech

   

• Software Change Management For Medical Devices

Tony Raymond, President, New Harbor SQA

• Performance Excellence: Effective Quality Systems Achieved Through Integrated Methodologies

Steven Hodlin, Vice President, Business Excellence, DST Output

• Impact of ISO 9001:2008 in a 2009 Economy

Glen Emelock, Senior Partner, The CRO Group, Inc.

Medical Device

• Successful Outsourcing of Product Development and Validation

David A. Vogel, Ph.D., President, Intertech Engineering Associates, Inc.

• Preventive Action, Correction, and Corrective Action: From Requirements to Effective Processes

Dan O’Leary, CQE, CRE, CSSBB, President, Ombu Enterprises, LLC

• Complaint Processing within a CAPA System

Chas Burr, Graduate Program Director – Health Product Regulation, Regis College

• Managing the Supply Chain - GHTF Supplier Management

Susan C. Reilly. Principal, Reilly & Associates, LLC

• Changes to the Medical Device Directive

Jennifer Bromm, RAC, Medical Products Manager, TUV-USA, Inc.

Quality Tools

• Auditing Risk Management Processes

F. David Rothkopf, President MEDIcept

• A Serious (and not so serious) Review of Statistical Tools and Analysis

David Cromwick, WW Director of Quality for BDOS

• Why, Where and How to apply FMEA/FTA during New Production Introduction (NPI) Process

Nihar Senapati, Reliability Engineering Leader, GE Healthcare

• The Structured Testing Methodology for Software Quality Assurance

Vladimir V. Riabov, Ph.D, Professor, Dep’t of Mathematics & Computer Science, Rivier College

• Rapid DMAIC Deployment

Rui Coelho, Sr. Manager Operational Excellence, OEX Site Leader, Biogen Idec.

Personal/ Professional Development

• Sustainment: The Final Frontier

Len Deneault, Executive Director, MassExcellence – Massachusetts’ Baldrige–based quality program

• Are you a Quality Manager, or a Leader?

Demetrios G. Venetis, Dean of Continuous Improvement, Entegris University, Entegris, Inc.

• Taking Your Quality Group from Good to Better to Best

Diane Schmalensee, President, Schmalensee Partners

• Continuous Improvement of Work Habits

Eb Schmidt, President & Owner, productivity21 LLC

• Story Telling to Teach Quality Principles

Denise Robitaille, Principal, Robitaille Associates