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#710: Regulatory and Industry Perspectives on Good Clinical Practice Inspections: Regulatory Approaches, Industry Impact, and Future Harmonization Opportunities
Thursday June 18, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EDT
107AB
Component Type: Forum
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.00 Knowledge UAN: 0286-0000-26-650-L04-P; CME 1.00; RN 1.00

Explore Good Clinical Practice Inspections (GCP) inspections from regulatory and industry views, using FDA data to highlight global trends, compliance strategies, and harmonization, with insights on coverage of sites, sponsors, clinical research organizations (CROs), and regions.

Learning Objectives

Recognize FDA GCP inspection scope and trends from FY2016–2018 across US and non-US sites; Compare inspection approaches among regulators; Evaluate opportunities for harmonization and information sharing; Analyze industry strategies for global inspection readiness and compliance.

Chair

Kassa Ayalew, MD, MPH

Speaker

panelist
Thomas Haag

Panelist
Izumi Oba

Panelist
Jong-Hoon Lee, MD


Speakers
avatar for Kassa Ayalew

Kassa Ayalew

Director, DCCE, OSI, Office of Compliance, CDER, FDA, United States
Dr. Kassa Ayalew serves as the Division Director for the Division of Clinical Compliance Evaluation within the Office of Scientific Investigation at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. In this role, he oversees the evaluation of the integrity of efficacy and safety... Read More →
avatar for Thomas Haag

Thomas Haag

Principal Consultant, Cardinal Solutions Consuting, LLC, United States
Tom Haag has a truly innovative vision for quality in clinical research that is focused on delivering outcome data that justifies therapeutic costs. Formerly the Global Head of Digital Development and Transformation QA with Novartis, Tom led on end-to-end quality and data integrity... Read More →
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Jong-Hoon Lee

Senior Physician, FDA, United States
Dr. Lee graduated from University of Virginia (BA; Charlottesville, VA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (MD; Richmond, VA), then completed internship at State University of New York at Syracuse (Internal Medicine; Syracuse, NY), residency at George Washington University (Anatomic... Read More →
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Izumi Oba

Inspection Deupty Director, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), Japan
Thursday June 18, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am EDT
107AB The Pennsylvania Convention Center 1101 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA
  09: RD-Quality-Compliance, Forum |   02: ClinicalTrialOps-Innovation, Forum
  • Audience Intermediate
  • Level Intermediate
  • format csv
  • Credit Type ACPE, CME, RN
  • Interest Area Quality Assurance / Control & CMC
  • Tags Forum

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