Gisela Karic

Vice President, Corporate Quality
PPD
 

Gisela Karic serves as Vice President of Corporate Quality at PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific. Within this position, which she has held since 2018, Gisela provides strategic direction to teams, facilitates quality oversight of key quality indicators and quality risks, and drives and ensures governance, improvements and compliance of global quality and compliance procedures; she
also supports the government projects with contracted and consulting quality assurance services.

Gisela has more than 27 years of clinical research experience gained in working with pharma and CRO businesses. Prior to PPD, she worked at Merck Sharp & Dohme for 13 years where she assumed leadership positions in various areas, including clinical, training, quality and process improvement. Prior to this, she worked as a registered nurse in one of the most renowned private hospitals in Brazil (HIAE).

She received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo, completed Six Sigma Black Belt training at Instituto Vanzollini and obtained her specialization title in Pharmaceutical Medicine from Hospital Sírio Libanês in Brazil.