Elizabeth Rivera STERIS

Elizabeth Rivera is a technical service manager for the Scientific Division of STERIS Corporation (Mentor, Ohio). Currently, she provides technical assistance in the areas of selection of detergents, disinfectants and sterilization assurance products including the application and use of these in the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, cosmetics, medical devices, dietary supplements and related industries. In addition, she is responsible for assisting Customers with their supplier qualification requirements including paper surveys, onsite audits, quality agreements and others. She offers conferences and exhibits on educational technical forums such as IPA, Interphex, ExpoFYBI, ETIF, PDA, ISPE, Expofarma, OMICS, Executive Conference and more. She has a bachelors and masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico. Elizabeth has 20 years of experience and travels to places in North America, Latin America and elsewhere to support customers in various aspects of cleaning and decontamination. Previously, she held positions at pharmaceutical companies. She has extensive experience in cleanup of active pharmaceutical programs.