Wayne Garafola Sartorius-Stedim Biotech

Mr. Garafola received special training and work experience in membrane filtration technologies, integrity testing, pre-filtration and sterilizing filters, cross flow separations, membrane adsorber (chromatographic) separations, Utility IQ/OQ (air/gas/water/steam), and various filtration applications. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology at Pennsylvania State University. He has over 27 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and life science industries, working in a variety of positions from QA, R&D, Validation Services, and Technical Services.

He shared the 2016 James P. Agalloco Award, for PDA TRI faculty member who exemplify outstanding performance in education, with co-trainer, Maik W. Jornitz. He has been a member of PDA for 25 years and teaching at PDA TRI since 2006.