Robert L. Dana Elkhorn Associates Inc.

Robert Dana is the President of Elkhorn Associates Inc., a firm providing quality and regulatory compliance consulting services to the health care industry. He has been associated with the pharmaceutical industry for over 50 years. He joined Bristol Laboratories in 1967 as a Research Scientist and was subsequently named Manager, Product Development for their Animal Health Care Products Division.

He joined the Bristol Myers Squibb Corporate Staff in 1984 as a GMP auditor and progressed through a series of responsibilities, retiring from BMS as Senior Director, Corporate Compliance Assurance; where he led a department responsible for providing GCP, GLP, GMP, Animal Welfare and Controlled Substance auditing and compliance support services to BMS operations worldwide.

He joined the staff of PDA as Vice President, Quality and Regulatory Affairs in 2005, was named Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Training and Research Institute in 2009 and Senior Vice President, Education in 2013. He retired from PDA in December 2015.

Mr. Dana holds a B.S. degree (Pharmacy) from the University of Connecticut. He is a former Director of PDA and the University of Connecticut Pharmacy School Alumni Association and is currently an emeritus member of the University of Connecticut Pharmacy School Advisory Board.