Karen Greene, CPP, is a tenured package engineering professional with 20+ years of experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical packaging industries. The first 7 years of her 28 year career were in the food packaging industry where she held professional positions with Nabisco Brands and Thomas J. Lipton Company. Her medical device and pharmaceutical packaging experience has included leadership positions with IMED Corporation(now Cardinal Health), Ohmeda Medical, Edwards Lifesciences and Allergan. She has led teams of individuals responsible for medical device and pharmaceutical package development, validation and production implementation. She has also led teams responsible for documentation, configuration management and label development and control.
Karen has published several articles in her area of
specialization, terminally sterilizedmedical devices, presents frequently at industry conferences such as Medical Design and Manufacturing (MDM) and ISTA’s Transport Packaging Forum. Karen is also the Co-President of the Southern CA Chapter of IoPP and the Chair of the Task Group Subcommittee of the IoPP Medical Device Packaging Technical Committee.