Bettine Boltres PhD West Pharmaceutical Services

As Director of Scientific Affairs & Technical Solutions, Glass Systems, Dr. Bettine Boltres is supporting the scientific exchange between West and the pharmaceutical industry. This complements her work as Product Manager for Schott Pharmaceutical Tubing, where she provided scientific consulting for glass primary packaging. Since 2015 Bettine has been an active member of the USP Packaging and Distribution Expert Committee as well as the ISO TC76/WG 2 on rigid container systems and WG 4 on elastomers. Additionally, in 2018 joined the European Pharmacopoeia Commission Group of Experts 16 (elastomers and plastics) and the GLS Working Party (glass). Since January 2019 she is also a member of the PDA Board of Directors, actively supporting the role of PDA in the global pharma world. She was part of the PDA Glass Handling Task Force finalizing TR 87, is actively involved in the Task Force working on an Annex to TR 73 addressing MDR GSPRs for PFS, and is part of the Pharmacopeia Interest Group. In 2015 she published the book "When Glass Meets Pharma", which builds the bridge between glass for pharmaceutical primary packaging and drug substances.