Susan Neadle, MS, BS, FAAO is a recognized international Combination Products and Medical Device expert with over 35 years of industry experience. Networked, published, highly active in numerous industry groups and with links to a number of teaching institutions, Susan brings deep knowledge and genuine passion for sharing that knowledge with others. Susan's leadership, innovation, and best practices have been recognized with multiple awards, including the Johnson Medal, Johnson & Johnson's highest honor for excellence in Research & Development, and most recently, as a Finalist in TOPRA's 2021 Awards for Regulatory Affairs Excellence. She serves as Principal Consultant and President of Combination Products Consulting Services LLC, applying her extensive leadership, technical skills, and complex program management experience to provide international quality & compliance, regulatory, design excellence and executive advisory consulting services to the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. Among her significant industry affiliations and contributions, she serves as Chair of the ISPE Combination Products CoP, lead author on the ASTM International Combination Products Standard Committee, lead author on the AAMI Combination Products Steering Committee, active member in Combination Products Coalition, and serves as faculty at AAMI and at University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences for Combination Products Curricula.

Susan retired from Johnson & Johnson, where her distinguished 26+ year-career included integral leadership roles in R&D, Quality Engineering, Design-to-Value, and Quality Systems Management, spanning pharmaceuticals/biotech, medical devices, and consumer health sectors, as well as strategic leadership at J&J corporate level. She served as Chair of J&J's Design Council, advancing world-class practices in product and process design and development to drive robust, customer-centric health care solutions across J&J. She also led J&J's cross-sector Combination Products Community of Practice. Among several achievements, Susan led the team that defined and implemented the globally integrated business model to meet Combination Products health authority regulations for Janssen, J&J's Pharmaceutical sector, and was awarded the Johnson Medal for excellence in Research and Development.

Susan also served as Executive Director and Head of Combination Products, Medical Devices, Digital Health & IVD Regulatory Affairs at Amgen, providing strategic leadership in global combination products/ device regulatory development and portfolio/project management from initial clinical investigation through registration and commercial lifecycle. She was as an advisor for internal regulatory policy priorities, health authority engagement and submissions approaches through strategic engagement and mentoring of colleagues for individual projects and portfolio. She led interactions with multiple global health authorities, and served as a catalyst for external consortium deliverables and strategic direction.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 What is a Combination Product?

Chapter 3 Regulatory Strategies

Chapter 4 cGMPs

Chapter 5 Integrated Development

Chapter 6 Risk Management

Chapter 7 Human Factors Engineering in the Design, Development and Lifecycle of Combination Products

Chapter 8 Lifecycle Management: Design Transfer through Post Market

Chapter 9

• 9A. Best Practices and Considerations for Combination Products Inspection Readiness
• 9B. US Combination Product Inspections

Part 2: Special Topics

Chapter 10 Supplier Quality Considerations

Chapter 11 Analytical Testing Considerations

Chapter 12 Biological Products Considerations

Chapter 13 Connected Health

Chapter 14 Evolving Global Regulatory Landscape