ASQ Section 509 - BioMed/BioTech Special Interest Group Presents

CDC's Disease Detectives - Epidemic Intelligence Services

Presented by
Yinong Chong, MS, PhD
Health Scientist & Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Thursday, December 10, 2009

6:00 - 6:20 PM: Networking and Pizza/ soft drink and networking
6:20 - 8:50 PM: Program (Break at 7:30 PM)
8:50 - 9:00 PM: Door-prize drawing and networking

The Kelly’s Deli Conference Room
7519 Standish Place
Rockville, MD 20855

Costs: Free to the general public with a door prize drawing

For more information about the event, click here.

The BioMedTech SIG mission is to engage the regulatory, industry, and academic communities with honest, informed, advanced discussion of biomedical and biotechnical research and topics as relating to quality principles and practices, to the professional advancement, intellectual development, and personal growth of our members, to camaraderie within our community, and to public service.

U.S.  Food & Drug Administration: Food; Drugs; Medical Devices; Biologics, Blood, & Vaccines; Cosmetics; Radiation-Emitting Products; Combination Products

Biotechnology & Biomedicine: Medicine, Bioinformatics, Pharmacogenomics, Pharmaceutical Products, Medical Devices, Genetics & Testing, Biological Engineering, Bioengineering

Biomedical Auditing & Quality Control: Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality & Lean Six Sigma Applications

Dr. George Chang (gchang2008@yahoo.com)

Dr. George Chang is a native from Taiwan, ROC and is a veterinarian, pathologist, pharmacologist, and toxicologist by training. He is a board-certified toxicologist (DABT), auditor (CQA), regulatory affairs specialist (RAC), and project management profession (PMP).  Currently, Dr. Chang serves as a regulatory scientist at the Office of Surveillance and Compliance, Center for Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug Administration responsible for regulatory and toxicology review for proposed animal feed ingredients, feed-additive petitions, and health hazard evaluation for incidences of potential adulteration or misbranding of animal feeds.

Before joined the Federal government in 2008, Dr. Chang had been involving directing research and development of biomedical products in biopharmaceutical industry, assisting in building toxicogenomics database in bioinformatic organization, managing projects and programs within preclinical contract research organizations.  Dr. Chang earned his veterinary medicine degree from National Taiwan University (NTU, Taiwan, ROC), his first MS degree in veterinary pathology on pathogenesis and preclinical pathology diagnostics from University of Minnesota, and his second MS and PhD degrees in veterinary physiology/pharmacology on chemical carcinogenesis, chemotherapy, and chemoprevention from The Ohio State University. He spent three years afterward conducting postdoctoral research on molecular dosimetry of impact carcinogens, quantification of molecular markers, and assessed sub-chronic effects of tobacco-specific nitrosamines at a Wake Forest University/RJR Tobacco joint program at NC.

Dr. Chang's career goals are to assess the efficacy and safety of biomedical products and to facilitate collaboration within and to provide pertinent information to scientific communities.

Asif Rasheed (rasheed_asif@yahoo.com)

Dr. Rasheed received his bachelor degree (Applied Chemistry) and first master degree (Applied Chemistry) from University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan; his second master degree (Chemistry; polymers) from the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dharan, Saudi Arabia; and his PhD degree (Chemistry; nanocomposites) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
Before joining FDA, Center for Veterinary Medicine, Office of New Animal Drug Evaluation, Division of Manufacturing Technologies in 2008, he served as:

• Researcher at Enar Petrotech Services, Karachi, Pakistan – conducted feasibility studies of petroleum refineries;
  Technologist at SABIC R&D, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – developing catalyst for amoxidation reaction to produce acrylonitrile;
• Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineer;
• Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI.

Dr. Rasheed’s research experience/interests include polymer synthesis, polymer blends, carbon nanotube purification, nanofiber oxidation, and nanocomposite preparation and characterization.  He is currently also a member of American Physical Society, American Chemistry Society, and Materials Research Society.