Joyce M HansenJoyce Hansen joined Johnson & Johnson as Vice President of J&J Sterility Assurance in 2012. Joyce is responsible for providing strategic vision, leadership and governance for steril¬ity assurance E2E lifecycle management for sterile products and the icrobial control for non-sterile products across Johnson & Johnson. Additionally, Joyce is responsible for Johnson & Johnson's representation in U.S. and interna¬tional sterile and aseptic standards settings and internal sterile process knowledge management activities including learning, standards, competen¬cies, and best practices to Johnson & Johnson companies worldwide. Joyce is a member of the Johnson & Johnson Quality & Compliance Leadership Team.
Joyce is a recognized industry leader in sterilization practices, and she has over 35 years' experience in sterility assurance. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Joyce was the President and founder of JM Hansen & Associates, a consulting firm that provided manufacturing companies with strategic plans for optimized use of internal sterilization equipment or the use of contract sterilization and laboratory services. She is specialized in the areas of ra¬diation (gamma, electron beam and X-ray) and ethylene oxide sterilization. Prior to consulting, Joyce spent six years working for Baxter Healthcare Corporation as Vice President, Sterility Assurance and Sterilization Core Technical Competency Champion. Joyce also held sterilization R&D and/or management positions at Sherwood Davis & Geck, Isomedix, and Becton Dickinson & Company.
Joyce holds a B.S. in microbiology from South Dakota State University, and a Masters in Management from the Kellogg Executive Management Program at Northwestern University. Joyce has authored/co-authored more than 20 articles in technical journals and/or chapters in books on sterilization. She is involved in a number of industry activities responsible for developing in¬dustry standards for sterility assurance. She previously served as Convenor of the ISO Working Group on Radiation Sterilization and as co-chair of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) working groups to develop standards on Radiation Sterilization, SAL, and Microbiological Methods. Read More Read Less