Quest Diagnostics Names Adrienne Brott Senior Vice President and Chief Quality and Regulatory Affairs Officer
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Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) has appointed Adrienne L. Brott as senior vice president and chief quality and regulatory affairs officer, effective December 2024. Reporting to CEO Jim Davis, Brott will lead the company's quality and regulatory strategy, focusing on enhancing quality adherence and compliance with global regulations for laboratory diagnostic services.
Brott joins Quest with extensive experience in healthcare quality and regulatory affairs, previously serving as senior vice president of quality and regulatory at Getinge's acute care therapies division. Her prior roles include leadership positions at Becton Dickinson, where she managed quality across 28 manufacturing sites and led a program to harmonize 120 quality management systems. She also held positions at Johnson & Johnson and Abbott Laboratories.
The new executive is co-chair of the Advancing Quality Excellence Collaborative Community Steering Committee of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium, collaborating with stakeholders including the FDA to improve medical device quality and patient safety.
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- Strategic appointment strengthens regulatory compliance capabilities
- New executive brings extensive experience from major healthcare companies
- Addition of seasoned leader to executive team enhances quality management expertise
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Quality and regulatory veteran of Getinge, BD and J&J joins the Quest Diagnostics executive team
Ms. Brott is responsible for leading the company's quality and regulatory strategy to enhance quality adherence and control as well as compliance with
"Adrienne is a highly effective leader with an impressive record of strengthening and streamlining quality and regulatory processes for complex healthcare companies," Mr. Davis said. "Under her leadership, Quest will be well positioned to navigate an evolving regulatory landscape and fulfill our high standards for quality."
Prior to joining Quest, Ms. Brott was senior vice president, quality and regulatory for the acute care therapies division of Getinge, a global medical technology company. Before that, she held various leadership roles at Becton Dickinson (BD), a leading global medical technology company. This includes senior vice president, quality management--interventional segment, quality systems and regions, where she led all aspects of quality across 28 manufacturing sites worldwide and led a multi-year program to simplify and harmonize 120 quality management systems. She held other roles of increasing responsibility in quality systems and post-market quality and regulatory compliance and quality operations and end-to-end integrated supply chain operations for medical devices and other areas for Johnson & Johnson and Abbott Laboratories.
Ms. Brott is a co-chair of the Advancing Quality Excellence Collaborative Community (AQEcc) Steering Committee of the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), an initiative shared by medical device stakeholders, including the FDA, to enhance medical device quality and patient safety.
Ms. Brott earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and a bachelor's degree with a double major in biology and environmental studies from
About Quest Diagnostics
Quest Diagnostics works across the healthcare ecosystem to create a healthier world, one life at a time. We provide diagnostic insights from the results of our laboratory testing to empower people, physicians and organizations to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from one of the world's largest databases of de-identifiable clinical lab results, Quest's diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve healthcare management. Quest Diagnostics annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in
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