Avni Jethwa

Avni Jethwa is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  Jethwa has eight years of experience in handling pharmaceutical manufacturing & quality management systems and has been with Reliance Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., India since 2007.  Currently, Jethwa is a Manager in the Quality Assurance group and is accountable for quality assurance function handling in-process quality checks for the entire manufacturing process - drug substance & drug product, batch release, handling of deviations, out of specifications, investigations, corrective & preventative actions, change controls, technology transfer, process validation, cleaning validation, internal & external audits, vendor & contract testing laboratory audits, annual produce quality reviews, product stability studies, document & data control and supporting for regulatory filing.  Jethwa received her post graduate degree in microbiology from the University of Mysore, India in 2007.