Ravi Patel West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.

Ravi Patel is a member of the Core Team for PDA Zero Particle Task Force representing the Elastomers Subgroup (2018-2022). He is currently the Director of Quality Engineering and Metrology at West Pharmaceutical Services, responsible for global engineering projects, the development of automation & metrology systems, and supporting new product development & various cross-departmental initiatives. He has worked at West in various roles for over 18 years. Prior to assuming the responsibilities as Director of Quality Engineering, he served as a Project Manager for Quality Operations, a Manager of the customer complaints team for Quality Systems, a Quality Engineer responsible for validation and optimization projects, and as a Scientist within the quality organization supporting customer complaints and internal plant investigations. Before joining West, he held the post of  an Analytical Chemist at Wyeth Ayerst responsible for developing novel quantification methods for compounds as part of a team responsible for drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics assays and as a Chemist at ViroPharma as part of research & development team responsible for design novel pathways to synthesize small molecule heterocycles intended for treatment of specific RNA viruses.