As part of Global Quality Systems, my focus is on the development and implementation of Viatris policy, specifically regarding data integrity in all aspects of our organization.

Since 2017, my work has primarily been focused on activities related to Data Integrity. I have written, executed and trained on protocols and procedures to forensically examine and validate product data submitted in applications to Health Agencies. More recently, I have extended this experience to development of Global company policies on data integrity.

My work at Mylan has been as part of Research and Development in Morgantown WV. In R&D, we develop and validate methods to characterize both new and existing products, in particular, establishing stability and quality guidelines for drug products using liquid chromatography and other techniques. I started in May 2012 as part of Stability, where I determined the time- and condition-dependent behavior of our products for the purpose of making new and expanding applications to the FDA. In Jan 2013, I joined the method validation group, where I validated the methods used by stability (and other departments) for continuous testing and quality assurance and control of our products. In May 2013, I joined the Raw Materials Support Group / Physical Properties Laboratory which tests the physical and chemical nature of components, both active pharmaceuticals and excipients, as well as validating and releasing these components for experimental and manufacturing purposes. In September 2014, I began a stint in Development, where I will initiate and advance new intellectual properties in Mylan's portfolio, and develop the analytical methods and data necessary to characterize them for FDA approval. Along the way, I have consulted on colloidal/particulate aspects of drug production and packaging processes, as well as microscopy, sample preparation, and image analysis problems.

In my group in the C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry at West Virginia University, our research was broadly multidisciplinary, with targets in inorganic, materials, physical and analytical chemistry. Most notably, we developed a microfluidic separation technique called travelling wave electrophoresis, or TWE, in which a traveling potential wave preferentially transports charged species along a microfluidic channel (with some species moving faster than others due to more effective transport). This work resulted in an NSF award and a cover story in "The Analyst".Another area of work was inorganic materials, particularly thin films and nanoparticles. We published research on preparation of novel anisotropic Janus particles (particles in which one side of the particle is different than the other) that undergo catalytically-induced self-propelled motion. These systems have potential as building blocks to form structured materials with unique magnetic, optical, and chemical applications.Students in my group also worked on surface modification chemistry of nanoparticles. One of the goals of this research was to prepare iron oxide nanoparticles with targeting ligands on their surface,facilitating drug delivery to, for instance, cancer tissues without affecting otherwise healthy tissues.As a Fellow of the DoE-National Energy Technology Laboratory-sponsored Institute for Advanced Energy Studies, I directed exploration of energy-related nanomaterials, with two areas of focus - aerogel composites for catalytic applications and the effects of radio-frequency energy on catalysis. I was also invited to contribute to a program on water issues in energy, wherein we developed patterned substrate materials for recovery of water from power plant cooling towers.

Designed and constructed a RF-enhanced reactor for study of the effects of radio waves on catalytic processes; developed aerogel-supported nanomaterials for catalysis and pollutant/carbon capture applications; and studied surface patterning and modification techniques for selective surface capture of water.

As a postdoc in Richard Superfine's Lab at UNC-CH Physics, I worked on three primary project areas: control of biomotor systems for device applications, microfluidic systems for microscopy applications, and magnetoelastomeric composites as model biological systems.

As a graduate student in Christopher Gorman's group in Chemistry, I worked on a number of different interesting physical organic and inorganic synthesis problems. Synthetically, I pursued redox-active core dendrimers and metal/organic multilayers for molecular electronics investigation. For my thesis, I studied different materials (including those above) using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy techniques to understand their potential as molecular electronic switches. This involved the development of molecular patterning methods for these molecules and theoretical understanding of their contrast mechanisms in STM. This work all resulted in a couple of nice cover images in Advanced Materials and Langmuir, and a highly cited review article in Angewandte Chemie.