Kevin O'Donnell PhD Health Products Regulatory Authority

Kevin O'Donnell is Market Compliance Manager at the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA, formerly known as the Irish Medicines Board), in Dublin, Ireland. He has been with the HPRA/IMB since 2001 and is a Senior GMP Inspector. He is also responsible for a number of compliance-related programmes at the HPRA, including the Quality Defect and Recall programme, the Sampling and Analysis programme, and the Advertising Compliance programme. He obtained his PhD in the field of Quality Risk Management (QRM) from the Dublin Institute of Technology (now named the Technological University Dublin) in 2008. He is currently Chair of the PIC/S Expert Circle on QRM and is also Rapporteur for the ongoing revision of ICH Q9.