Westgard QC is proud to announce the addition of a contributing editor, Paulo Pereira, PhD

Biographical Information

Paulo Pereira received his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Portugal (Biotechnology, specialization Microbiology)

 Dr. Pereira has been recruited as a quality and laboratory utilization expert for seminars and laboratory professional meeting throughout Europe

•  22+ years of experience in medical laboratory, having held key scientific leadership roles:
• 9+ years as medical technician
• 12+ years as researcher
• 3+ years as consultant of a metrology laboratory in a national transfusion and transplantation institute based on ISO/IEC 17025 specifications
• 16+ years as a consultant and auditor of quality management systems and technical requirements (ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 17025, and ISO 15189) in a national transfusion and transplantation institute
• 9+ years as a quality manager and the national coordinator of a quality management department in a national transfusion and transplantation institute
• 5+ years as a quality control teacher in the School of Health Technology, Lisbon Polytechnic Institute and the Medical School, Nova University of Lisbon

 Dr. Pereira is the author of several peer-review scientific and technical articles, and indexed book chapters. He serves as both reviewer scientific and technical articles and as a member of Editorial Boards

 Specialties:

• Expert in quality control of medical laboratory tests: verification, validation, internal quality control, external quality assessment, measurement uncertainty, and reference intervals
• Successful practice of CLSI protocols
• Sampling methodologies and statistical quality control applied to the blood components production
• Blood and plasma screening tests
• Risk management
• GLP in medical laboratory and GMP on the manufacture of blood components
• Successfully leading Quality teams
• Leading highly effective cross-functional teams through strong leadership skills

• ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5945-7732
  ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/M-4106-2016
  ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paulo_Pereira11
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pauloarpereira