Biography:

Roger Cowan is the founder and owner of R Cowan Consulting Services LLC, a consulting company specializing primarily in pharmaceutical contract manufacturing. He has 35 years of experience in pharmaceutical quality assurance and manufacturing. In his career, Roger has held various manager/director positions in Quality Assurance, QC Laboratory, Technical Services Validation, Manufacturing, and Clinical Supply manufacturing and distribution. Roger has taught courses in microbiology at Seneca College (Pharmaceutical Technology Program) in Toronto, Canada.   

Roger's areas of expertise include aseptic pharmaceutical manufacture, GMP facility audits, technical transfer, microbiology, environmental monitoring/contamination control, product sterilization, process development, process validation, clinical supply manufacturing, labeling and distribution, US / International regulatory requirements, regulatory submissions, and quality assurance/control.