Meet the Speakers
Sonia Lecce, MBA; Principal Regulatory Consultant-IVD, NAMSA
Sonia is a regulatory affairs expert with over 22 years of experience in introducing new products into multiple regions, including Canada, Japan, Brazil and the United States. She has led multi-country submissions and is well-versed in communications with global regulatory bodies. Sonia has worked with organizations such as Sysmex America, Baxter Healthcare, Catalent Pharmaceuticals and Abbott Molecular. She has an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Recently, she completed a 510(k) Hematology analyzer submission, assembled a 510(k) blood banking project with Biological License Applications (BLAs) and U.S. Food and Drug administration (FDA) interaction, achieved breakthrough designation for oncology diagnostic novel technology and supported pre-submissions for CDx devices.
Duan Threats; Senior Regulatory Consultant-IVD, NAMSA
Duan is an experienced professional in the In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) devices industry, with expertise in regulatory compliance and labeling for various IVD devices. He has worked with companies like Sysmex, Abbott Molecular and MABIS DMI Healthcare before joining NAMSA in 2020. Duan’s core competencies include compliance with FDA, Canada and Latin America regulations, creating regulatory assessments and ensuring labels are compliant with international regulations. His recent projects involve regulatory change control assessments, laboratory developed test regulatory assessment, and surveying labeling and registration requirements of Asia-Pacific regional countries.
Linford Leitch; Former Regulatory Consultant, NAMSA
In 2021, Linford joined NAMSA as a Regulatory Consultant. He has 9 years of experience in the medical device industry with direct regulatory experience with Spine, Transcatheter Heart Valves and Hemodialysis devices. He specializes in developing global regulatory strategies for entry to market and maintain strategies throughout product lifecycle.
Richard Granquist; Senior Quality System Consultant, NAMSA
Rich Granquist has 17 years of experience in the medical device industry and has spent extensive time working with both start-up manufacturers and larger, global device manufacturers. He specializes in quality system development and risk management.
Rich started in the medical device industry as a Microbiologist focusing on preclinical testing including, packaging validation, biocompatibility testing and reprocessing instruction validation for urology and women’s health devices. He spent several years as a Quality Engineer performing complaint investigations, root cause investigation and product development focusing on aortic intervention vascular devices. In 2014, Rich joined NAMSA as a Quality Systems Consultant. Over his 16 years in the medical device industry, he has participated in numerous AAMI ISO standards committees and currently sits on the AAMI working groups for AAMI ISO 14971, AAMI ISO/TR24971, AAMI ISO 13485 and AAMI ISO 15223.
