Debra Weiss Email & Phone Number

As chief operating officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, I provide strategic and operational support to achieve business objectives in compliance with Institute and industry standards for data integrity, safety, and quality. I have overseen operations since the Institute was founded in January 2018. Prior to my role as COO, I served as the Institute’s head of quality assurance & enterprise operations.My diverse background ranges from conducting clinical trials in an academic environment to working in large and small pharmaceutical companies, where I traveled globally auditing clinical trial activities and leading global QA organizations. Prior to joining the Institute, I served as president of Compliance Driven Performance LLC, where I provided quality assurance and compliance consulting to facilitate companies in building and sustaining their Quality Management System. From 2004 to 2015, I served as group vice president of R&D quality assurance at Shire Pharmaceuticals and was named Shire’s Healthcare Business Women Association Rising Star in 2008. Before Shire, I was manager of worldwide clinical quality assurance at Merck & Co., Inc., where I led a team of quality assurance auditors and participated in a pilot program with the FDA on the use of electronic diaries. A registered nurse by training, I held various roles at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University Hospital from 1986 to 1996.I am an adjunct professor at Temple University teaching a graduate course in GCPs. I earned my MSN from the University of Pennsylvania and BSN from Hahnemann University (Drexel).

Listed skills include Pharmaceutical Industry, Fda, and Clinical Trials.