Mr.Alan M Golden

Area Of Expertise : MD / Pharma / Design Quality Consultants / Validation
36 Years Of Experience
Training Industry : Multi Industry

Alan has over 36 years of experience in the medical device industry, both in basic research and in quality assurance. Alan spent 31 years at Abbott Laboratories. For the first 26 years as part of diagnostics R&D, he developed recombinant proteins used in diagnostics tests, received three US patents, and published numerous papers and abstracts. Alan then transitioned to a quality assurance role where in both the Abbott Diagnostics and Abbott Molecular divisions, he was responsible for quality assurance for new product development, on-market product support, and operations.

Alan’s quality assurance experience extends from design control, change control, risk management, CAPA, process and test method validation, and statistics. He has been lecturing on these topics worldwide for over 10 years.

Alan retired from Abbott in 2018 and now runs Design Quality Consultants, providing training, workshops, and seminars in many areas of quality assurance.

Alan received his BS degree in Microbiology from the University of Michigan and his MS degree in Molecular Biology and Immunochemistry from the University of Illinois.

9 results Found
Live Webinar

Impact Assessment For Change Control

This webinar will present strategies and tools for doing a complete and comprehensive impact assessment of supplier change notices. Tools and procedures for deciding if full impact assessments need to be processed and when notices for lower impact changes can ...

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
  • Aug 04, 2025
Live Webinar

Validation Sampling Plans

This webinar will discuss setting up statistically justified sampling plans for process validation. The discussion will also involve using the sampling plan to set acceptance criteria for process validation. Setting acceptance criteria for test method validati ...

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
  • Aug 11, 2025
Live Webinar

Design Verification and Validation for Medical Devices and Combination Products

This Webinar will outline the basics of design control for medical devices and the device part of a combination product. Failure to develop these products under design control may result in a product that is not suited for the intended market or failure of app ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
  • Oct 21, 2025
Live Webinar

How to Prepare for and Conduct a Regulatory Audit

In this webinar, we will discuss how to successfully prepare for and host a regulatory audit at you site. We will delve into how to prepare for the arrival of the auditors, what kind of people with what skills are needed for the audit team and how to conduct t ...

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
  • Oct 28, 2025
Live Webinar

Design Control for Medical Devices Including Verification/Validation

Overview of design control for medical devices with and emphasis on verification and validation of design inputs. Webinar will cover basic regulations regarding verification/validation of inputs, trace of inputs to verification/validation and techniques includ ...

  • Basic & Intermediate & Advanced
  • 90 Mins
  • Nov 03, 2025
Live Webinar

Design Control for Medical Devices: Overview and Design Inputs

This Webinar will outline the basics of design control for medical devices and the device part of a combination product. Failure to develop these products under design control may result in a product that is not suited for the intended market or failure of app ...

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
  • Nov 10, 2025
On-Demand Webinar

Design Control for Medical Devices: Overview and Design Inputs

Overview of Design Control for Medical Devices, with an emphasis on design inputs. Seminar will go over regulations, basic concepts in design control and importance of design inputs and how to write appropriate inputs.

  • Basic & Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
On-Demand Webinar

Impact Assessment for Change Control

Attend this webinar to learn the importance of doing a complete impact assessment prior to implementation of changes under change control. Tools and techniques will be presented to aid in organizing and streamlining impact assessments.

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins
Recorded Webinar

Validation Sampling Plans

This webinar will discuss setting up statistically justified sampling plans for process validation. Discussion will also involve using the sampling plan to set acceptance criteria for process validation. Setting acceptance criteria for test method validation w ...

  • Intermediate
  • 60 Mins