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JANUARY 2018 | EDITION 1

QUALITY MATTERS

THE PARKMORE QUALITY FUNCTION NEWSLETTER Teresa Lydon, Site Quality Director

TEAM MEMBERS: Barney McAleer (Sponsor) Design Assurance Senior Manager, Structural Heart | Dannie Kelly
(Branding Lead) QA Manager, Operations (Bld 1) | Karen Collins (Editor) Design Assurance, Structural Heart | Pauline
Hudner (Sub-editor) DES Analytical lab | Gerry Kearns Sterilization Validation | Fiona Gannon QA Operations
(Bld 2) | Robert Mulryan QA Sterilization Release | Richard Johnson QA Functional lab | Patricia Akamnonu PXM

FEATURES

Current:
Introduction to Newsletter

Functional Strategy:
Roll-out Event
INTRODUCTION TO NEWSLETTER
Product Profile:

The Galway Quality Newsletter Team is The Quality function is a large, diverse function Harmony
delighted to present the first edition of the spread across a number of buildings and
Quality Newsletter “Quality Matters”. “Quality business units. The Newsletter will be a vehicle Quality Begins With Me
Matters” forms one strand of the QA branding to unite and celebrate the function, as well as
strategy, one of the six pillars of the Quality showcasing its successes and contributions to In Practice
Functional Strategy for the Galway site. The goal the overall organisation.
of the QA branding strategy is to sustain and Philanthropy:
enhance the perception and communication The Team behind “Quality Matters” is made up Sleeping Bag Drive
of a world class quality organization. “Quality of individuals from across the Parkmore quality
Matters” will share and promote the innovation, organisation, contributing to a diverse and
collaboration and achievements that are varied content, which will showcase a complete In the Quality Spotlight:
ongoing within the Quality function. It will also cross sectional representation of the quality Interview with Marcela
provide an opportunity to get to know the function.
individuals that come together to form the Rios Vessell, VP Quality
Parkmore Medtronic Quality Organisation.

OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE
OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- WHO WE ARE QUALITY AT A GLANCE
• – WHAT WE DOporting
Design Assurance sup
New Product
• Design Assurance supporting
New Products
• Compliance Group
• • Configuration Management
Configuration Management
• Supplier Quality
• • Sterility Assurance & Bio-Comp.
Supplier Quality
• • Process and Software Validation
Sterilization Validation
• Quality Systems/Compliance Group/
• Process Validation
Training
Quality Systems
• • Receiving and Inspection
• • Quality Operations
Receiving and Inspection
• Release Testing ( Func.,Micro)
• Quality Operations
• Pharma device Combination Testing
Release Testing
• • Sterile Release
• • PXM Complaint Management
Sterile Release
• Business Process Improvement
PXM Complaint Management
• • Calibrations
• Business Process Improvement
Parkmore Quality Partner in Excellence