Conducting Effective Investigations of Out of Specification and Atypical Laboratory Results

Gregory Martin is president of Complectors Consulting, which provides consulting and training in the area of pharmaceutical analytical chemistry. Mr. Martin has over 25 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry and was director of pharmaceutical analytical chemistry (R&D) for a major pharma company for a number of years. In addition, he has volunteered for the USP for over 10 years, and currently serves as vice chair of the General Chapters – Physical Analysis Expert Committee, and serves on expert panels on validation and verification, weights and balances, residual solvents and use of enzymes for dissolution testing of gelatin capsules.

He has particular interest in QbD/Lean approaches to dissolution testing, impurity methods, method lifecycle (development/validation/transfer) and instrument qualification, and is passionate about using good science and sound logic to achieve high quality results, consistent with cGMPs, while minimizing resources. He is also past chair of the AAPS In Vitro Release and Dissolution Testing Focus Group. Mr. Martin is author of several papers in the areas of dissolution and analytical method validation.