Nuala Calnan

CEO BioPharm Excel
Founder The Quality Risk Management Institute
Adjunct Research Fellow TU Dublin

Nuala is a 25-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry. Her work as a consultant, academic, author and commentator is directed toward the development of practical, patient-focused excellence and includes research for FDA(USA) and HPRA(Ireland) on risk surveillance, patient safety and product quality in the manufacture and distribution of drugs.
Nuala works with organizations on transforming organizational culture, delivering more effective end-to-end proactive risk management, implementing knowledge excellence strategies, behavior-based quality excellence and enhancing performance management through people. She is the founder of the Quality Risk Management Institute and CEO at BioPharm Excel.
Nuala co-leads the ISPE Cultural Excellence Team, acted as Technical Author on the ISPE Advancing Pharmaceutical Quality (APQ) Guide series. At TU Dublin, Ireland, Nuala leads a number of patient focused regulatory science research projects at Masters and PhD level.