Petch Ashida Druar

Syneos Health
Director, Computer Systems Quality and Data Integrity
Petch Ashida Druar is Director, Quality Assurance, Computer Systems Quality and Data Integrity at Syneos Health. Her previous experience includes 20 years at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where she spent 10 years in the GSK R&D IT group, working primarily on computer systems validation projects supporting GCP and GLP business processes, before moving to R&D Computer Systems Quality Assurance (CSQA), focused on auditing, for 10 years. Petch received her BS degree in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK, and MS and Engineer’s Degree in Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University. She is a member of the GAMP Americas Steering Committee and is a contributing author to the ISPE GAMP Records and Data Integrity Good Practice Guide: Data Integrity by Design, and the ISPE GAMP Good Practice Guide: Validation of Computerized GCP Systems and Data, Second Edition.

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