People In Brief
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
D.C. consulting hire: Becker & Associates taps Elaine C. Messa as director, medical device quality systems and compliance. As former director of FDA's Los Angeles field district office, Messa oversaw the largest import operations and medical device workload in the agency, the health care consulting firm says. Messa, who has also chaired CDRH's field committee, left FDA in 1999 to join Quintiles Transnational. At Becker, Messa is charged with expanding the firm's compliance practice, where she will focus on enforcement action responses and international supply-chain risk management