Leadership

Vaska Tone is the President & CEO of LaVaPharm LLC, an independent Quality Assurance consulting firm with offices in both the USA and Southern Europe, providing global reach in  GCP, GLP, GVP and CSV auditing services. We also provide various training activities and Gap Analysis to ensure that your company and your staff are always inspection ready.

Vaska’s Leadership and Personal Experience includes:
•   25+ years’ in Clinical Development for the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Device industries
•   20+ years in Pre-Clinical, Clinical and Post-Marketing Quality Assurance
•   20 years of direct management of staff and quality deliverables ensuring oversight and effective communications of audit findings to allow for appropriate CAPA and any necessary SOP development
•   Active Society of Quality Assurance (SQA) committee member in Clinical and Pharmacovigilance sectors. Designated as a SQA Distinguished Speaker since 2018. Pre-test writer for the RQAP-GCP annual certification test. Participant on developing comprehensive auditing standards within QA Societies namely joint project with RQA (based in the UK), SQA (based in the USA) and JSQA (based in Japan), with results posted to society websites
•   American Society of Quality certified auditor with experience in lean-sigma standards
•   Guest lecturer at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Pharmacy
•   Trainer for Barnett International regarding Basic and Advance PV auditing, as well as training regarding EMA and FDA inspectional processes

Expert Knowledge in:
GCP, GLP, CSV, Pharmacovigilance, FDA & EMA Mock Inspection Auditing & Training
Systems GAP Analysis and SOP Development
Quality Management Consultancy

To view Vaska’s resume please see her LinkedIn profile at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaska-toné-7b6a54