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Let's Talk Quality

“Let’s Talk Quality” is a podcast that seeks to shine a light on quality assurance, a profession that acts as the cornerstone for bringing safer medicine to patients.

Podcast · By Hemish Ilangaratne · English · Official site

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Sep 11, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 11, 2026

    Isha Patel on the Overnight Career Plan That Took Her from Associate Director to SVP (opens the original)

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    Naymisha (Isha) Patel has spent thirty years in Quality and regulatory compliance across pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices and combination products. She is now Senior Vice President of Quality at AirNexis Therapeutics, a seven-month-old startup developing a combination product for COPD, where she is the first Quality hire. In this episode Isha talks about the ten-year career plan she wrote overnight in 2005 after a hiring VP at Nektar asked what she wanted, and how it carried her from

  2. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

    Dawn Houlihan on Her Journey From Ireland Big Pharma to the Boston Start-Up World (opens the original)

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    Dawn Houlihan started out as the person manufacturing teams went quiet around, and spent the next twenty years proving that quality works better as a partner than a police force. Dawn Houlihan on Her Journey From Ireland Big Pharma to the Boston Start-Up World In today's episode I was joined by Dawn Houlihan. I wanted to speak to Dawn because she has built a quality function from nothing, and has done it across almost every stage and modality the industry has to offer. She spent half her career

  3. Episode · Aug 25, 2026

    Luciana Mansolelli on Her First Year as CQO in the CDMO World (opens the original)

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    Luciana Mansolelli spent twenty years on the sponsor side. One question from a board chairman moved her to a CDMO. Luciana Mansolelli on her first year as CQO in the CDMO world. In today’s episode I was joined by Luciana Mansolelli, Chief Quality Officer at Minaris Advanced Therapies. I wanted to speak to Luciana because she has now led quality on both sides of the same relationship - Novartis and J&J on the sponsor side, and now a 200-person global quality organisation across the US, Germany an

  4. Episode · Jul 30, 2026

    My Thoughts on Quality Leadership, Halfway Through Season Four (opens the original)

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    Season Four is at its halfway point, so instead of a guest this week I’ve gone back over the conversations so far and pulled out the theme that came up most often. The quality leader whose main function is to say no is finished. This episode is four clips from Season Four guests on that theme, with my own thoughts in between. I also talk about why I think this matters for your career and not just for your working relationships, which comes from the other half of my week, placing quality leaders

  5. Episode · Jul 21, 2026

    Speaking the Language of the Business, with Jamey Lindholm (opens the original)

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    Quality culture isn't built by SOPs. It's built in the small moments when a leader reinforces the right behaviour or lets the wrong one slide. Speaking the Language of the Business, with Jamey Lindholm. In today's episode I was joined by Jamey Lindholm, Vice President of Quality at R1 Therapeutics. I really wanted to speak to Jamey because she has led Quality through nearly every stage a career in this industry can throw at you: a first-in-class FDA approval at Seres Therapeutics, an acquisition

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