Alex M. Viehmann US FDA

Alex Viehmann is currently the Director for the Division of Quality Intelligence II within the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality/Office of Quality Surveillance. The Division performs post-market quality-based assessments of drug sites and products, enhanced by data integration and analytics tools developed in support of monitoring and improving drug quality, to inform congressional inquiries and data calls, future GMP inspections, enforcement decisions, and application assessment. Alex joined the FDA in May 2008 as an Operations Research Analyst in the Policy and Standards Development staff within the Office of Pharmaceutical Sciences where he collaborated with stakeholders on developing policy and standards on sampling, test method evaluation, and statistical quality control. He then transitioned to the Science and Research staff where he provided statistical support for CMC review, GMP inspections, and enforcement actions. Since joining OQS in 2015, Alex has guided the development of OPQ’s Quality Metrics program, CDER/ORA’s New Inspection Protocol Project (NIPP), and OQS’s analytics and modeling program. He currently serves as the Regulatory Chair for ICH Q9 and as a member of the PIC/S Expert Circle Working Group on Quality Risk Management.

Alex received his Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park.