Cook Pharmica

Veda Walcott has been named vice president of quality and corporate compliance officer of Cook Pharmica. Ms. Walcott has been an employee of Cook Pharmica since 2005, and in her new role will be responsible for leading its quality and compliance programs and will oversee regulatory and validation support activities.

Ms. Walcott’s background in quality roles encompasses experience in both the clinical laboratory and biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing settings. Trained as a clinical laboratory scientist, she has biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing experience covering quality management roles at Baxter BioPharma Solutions (formerly Cook Pharmaceutical Solutions) and at Barnard Associates, a life sciences advisory firm. Since joining Cook Pharmica, she has led the development of the quality organization and quality systems to support contract manufacturing of mammalian cell culture-based biopharmaceuticals and the recent additional service offering of parenteral formulation, filling and finishing of drug products.

“Veda’s unwavering commitment to quality and customer service, paired with her 10 years of experience establishing, maintaining and improving quality systems in a contract manufacturing environment, has contributed greatly to Cook Pharmica’s success,” said Tedd Green, president of Cook Pharmica. “Her leadership of the quality unit and her contribution to the senior management team are critical to the continued success of Cook Pharmica.”