Joanne Spallone

Joanne Spallone is Global Head of Clinical Development Quality Assurance at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Joanne has 35+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, and has spent more than half her career in the clinical and pharmacovigilance quality assurance field. The majority of her career has been with Novartis (and formerly Ciba-Geigy Corporation) where she has worked a total of 35 years. In her current position, Joanne leads the Clinical Quality Assurance function for Novartis Pharma Division, including General Medicines and Oncology, also supporting early human clinical trials conducted by Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research. The clinical QA function provides regulatory, compliance and quality consultation to clinical teams and line functions, manages health authority inspections for global clinical trials, performs investigations, and supports process improvement initiatives.