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Expert in FDA Medical Device Regulation, Expert Testimony
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Expert initiately was a FDA field office investigator (drug manufacturing specialist) and compliance officer in the then FDA Bureau of Drugs. During his 17-year career in the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health Expert helped to initiate the Office of Small Manufacturers Assistance that was mandated by the Medical Device Amendments of 1976. Throughout that time he was a primary reviewer of proposed and final regulations and guidances and made more than 100 presentations on medical device laws and regulations at medical device industry and FDA seminars and conferences. For 9 years as the Director of the Premaet Approval Staff he oversaw the scientific, regulatory, and administrative review of Premarket Approval Applications (PMAs). As a consultant since 1994 Expert has provided a full range of services including, among other things, expert testimony in litigation, preparation of device marketing submissions and labeling, regulatory strategy, responses to FDA correspondence, and due diligence investigations. This FDA and consulting experience combined with FDA training and 3 years of graduate studies in the biomedical sciences has provided Expert with a wide breadth of knowledge of the safety and effectiveness issues related to the whole gamut of medical devices.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities: Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Raleigh, North Carolina;
Greensboro, North Carolina;
Durham, North Carolina;
Winston Salem, North Carolina;
Fayetteville, North Carolina;
Cary, North Carolina;
High Point, North Carolina;
Greenville, North Carolina;
Rocky Mount, North Carolina;
and Lynchburg, Virginia.
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1962
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BS
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Biology
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Loyola College
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1996 to
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(Undisclosed)
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Principal Consultant
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He provides a comprehensive range of regulatory and technical services including citation and interpretation of applicable FDA laws, regulations, guidances, and policies; compliance and testing strategies; preparation or review of device marketing submissions, required reports, and responses to FDA correspondence; preparation for FDA and advisory panel meetings; due diligence investigations; litigation assistance; and expert testimony. He represents both plaintiffs and defendents based upon the merits of the case.
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1994 to 1996
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C. L. McIntosh & Associates, Inc.
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Senior Regulatory Consultant
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His responsibilities were similar to those that he performs in his own medical device consulting firm.
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1981 to 1994
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Food and Drug Administration
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CDRH Office of Device Evaluation
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Director, Premarket Approval Staff
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He oversaw the scientific, regulatory, and administrative review of Premarket Approval Applications from 1981 to 1990. As the Assistant Director for Reclassification and Compliance from 1990 to 1993, he was the liaison with the CDRH Office of Compliance re enforcement activities involving device marketing, labeling. advertising, and promotion. He was the primary resource for the Office of Device Evaluation and other FDA staff re FDA device laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
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1977 to 1981
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Food and Drug Administration
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Office of Small Manufacturers Assistance
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Chief, Industry Servicies Staff
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He and another individual established this office. It was mandated by the Medical Device Amendments of 1976 to provide technical and other nonfinancial assitance to promote industry understanding of, and compliance with, this legislation and the implementing regulations and policies. He was the principal FDA speaker on a wide variety of the legislative provisions at industry and FDA sponsored workshops and conferences. He was detailed to that office in 1993 and 1994 as the Associate Director for Regulatory Affairs. He was the senior adviser to the staff on FDA device marketing-related laws, regulations, guidances, and policies.
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1972 to 1977
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Food and drug Administration
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Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
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Chief, Inspection Review Staff
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He oversaw the review of FDA inspections of methadone treatment programs and initiated enforcement actions as appropriate. He processed regulatory actions involving the submission to FDA of fraudulent drug-related information or the misuse of any drug that presented a serious risk to public health. During this period he served a 4-month detail as the Special Assistant to the CDER Director, He also servied a 4-month detail to the Division of OTC Drug Evaluation.
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1966 to 1972
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Food and Drug Administration
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Baltimore and Philadelphia District Offices
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Investigator (Drug Specialist)
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He initially inspected manufacturers and distributors of a wide range of FDA regulated products before specializing in the inspection of drug manufacturers and clinical study investigators.
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Publications and Patents Summary
He has 13 publications in trade association monthly journals
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society / Regtulatory Affairs Focus
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- Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society / Regulatory Affairs Focus
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- Food and Drug Administration
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1966 to 1994
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Food and Drug Adminstration
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Field Office Investigator (Drug Specialist), Burau of Drugs Compliance Officer, scientific reviewer
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Described in employment history
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| Selected Consulting Examples: |
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In a number of litigation case he has demonstrated that medical device manufacturers have not complied with the FDA conditions of marketing approval re notifying physicians and surgeons of FDA imposed experience and training requirements and providing the required training.
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In a significant number of litigation cases he has demonstrated that medical device manufacturers have not complied with FDA requirements for investigating and reporting deaths, serious injuries, and malfunctions and taking appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
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In a number of litigation cases he has demonstrated that devise manufacturers have not complied with the FDA requirement to include in device labeling the FDA imposed experience and training requirements for users of their device.
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In several litigation cases he has demonstrated that alleged violations of FDA requirements in FDA warning letters or inspection findings did not occur or were the result of FDA misinterpretations of FDA requirements.
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In a significant number of litigation cases he has demonstrated that device manufacturers have submitted fraudulent information to FDA or have omitted material facts.
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510k expert for consulting on 510k application for class II medical device.
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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About two-thirds of his consulting experience involves representing plaintiffs or defendants in litigation involving a wide variety of medical devices. Whom he represents is based upon the merits of the case. Although he has provided deposition and court testimony in numerous cases, most cases have been settled out of court after submission of his expert report or deposition testimony. He has assisted the Iowa Office of the State Attorney in removing the extensively promoted (e.g., TV and radio info commercials) but ineffective See Clearly Now product from the market as well as preventing a breast enlargement product from being sold in Iowa. He also assited the Texas Department of Health and FDA in prosecuting a beauty salon for serious injuries resulting from misuse of a laser hair removal device.
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He reads monthly medical device publications that provide such information but does not represent himself as an expert on such matters.
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Training/Seminars
During his 17-year FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health career (1977-1994) he gave more than 100 presentations on a wide variety of FDA medical device regulatory requirements at FDA or industry sponsored workshps and conferences. He also trained FDA medical device advisory committee menbers on applicable FDA requirements and was a resource for this information at several advisory committe meetings.At the request of the FDA Office of International Affairs, he also train in FDA medical device requirements to representatives of foreign regulatory agencies (e.g., Canada, Japan, China, and several European countries).
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection He makes available industry directories and monthly publications that identify such vendors. He also has a listing of Device Master Files on file with the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health that identify vendors or suppliers of device-related materials or manufacturing services.
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