Charlie Wakeham has been active within ISPE GAMP since 2001. She was a founder member of GAMP UK, and former Secretary of GAMP Europe and now serves as Chair of GAMP Global Council. She has led or contributed to nine published GAMP guides, was co-lead on the Data Integrity SIG, and now leads the GAMP Global CSA SIG.
Charlie is an independent consultant specializing in resolving quality and compliance challenges for GxP organizations. Her practical experience in quality management systems, CSV, and data integrity is combined with her extensive GAMP knowledge to deliver pragmatic solutions using critical thinking and patient-centric approaches.
Charlie was awarded the ISPE Max Seales Yonker Member of the Year in 2019 for her volunteer work with GAMP and for the training she has provided to regulatory agencies.
In this blog post, Charlie Wakeham, Director of WakeUp to Quality and Chair of the ISPE GAMP® Global Steering Committee, shares a recap of the ISPE Australasia Digital Innovation Conference, which took place 24 – 25 September 2024.
Computer software assurance (CSA) has been discussed widely in industry over the past five years. While the principles are well understood and welcomed, until now some of the practical detail on how exactly to implement CSA into an organization has been missing.
It becomes clear that a topic has become mainstream when it crosses multiple Communities of Practice and areas of interest. In preparation for the 2024 ISPE Annual Meeting & Expo, the Digital Transformation track committee worked closely with multiple teams from other tracks on the topic of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to identify the best...
Digital Transformation (DT) is impacting every aspect of our personal and professional lives, so it was no surprise that nearly one-third of all presentation proposals for this year’s ISPE Annual Meeting involved DT topics. It is a testament to the breadth of DT that there are three ISPE Communities of Practice (CoPs) operating in this space, each of whom had submitted high-quality...
It may seem that the only things loved by pharma industry more than acronyms are new buzz phrases. And that may be true. But sometimes, behind the buzz phrase, there are real, strong, achievable benefits to our work, our industry, and our end patients.
ISPE GAMP® has led the way in computerized systems best practices for more than 30 years. GAMP brought us the concept of system lifecycles and leveraged the V-model to give us a structured approach to computerized systems validation (CSV). GAMP developed and adopted the risk-based approach to CSV, enabling industry to focus validation efforts on critical systems and functionality.