Christine Oechslein, PhD

As a freelance GMP trainer, Christine Oechslein provides internal GMP training for pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers of active ingredients and suppliers. She has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for many years. As a speaker for different event organisers and an author, she shares her GMP knowledge in the areas of process validation, GMP training and GMP in development.

After graduating in pharmacy, Christine Oechslein started her professional career in 1987 as Project Manager at Kettelhack-Riker. She subsequently took on the role of Head of Laboratory at Sandoz Pharma where she was responsible for the development of innovative drug delivery systems for peptide active ingredients.

Her other tasks included formula and process development, process validation and provision of clinical samples. During this time she also worked on her thesis.

After she started working in quality assurance, she developed a quality assurance manual for pharmaceutical development, managed the SOP system and supported process validation projects.

In 1997, she started working freelance in the quality assurance system department of Novartis Pharma AG. She also studied at the University of Education in Freiburg and qualified as a GMP trainer. She is the author of numerous expert publications.

She is author or co-author of the following chapter of GMP Compliance Adviser:

7.B Validation – a key element in a QM system
7.C Organisation, planning and implementation
7.D Validation documentation
15.B GMP-compliant documentation
15.D Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
15.I GMP-compliant archiving
21.F Questionnaire for preparing GMP‑inspections

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