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Teresa
Cain
21 New Jersey
Irvine, CA 92606 US
Mobile: 949-235-7590
Evening Phone: 949-552-2959
Day Phone: 949-608-3483
Email:
teresa_cain@yahoo.comWork Experience:
Food & Drug Administration
ORA/Pacific Regional Laboratory Southwest
19701 Fairchild
Irvine, CA 92612 United States
06/2003 - Present
Chemist(Technology Based Expert-Mass Spectrometry)
Supervisor
: Kim Thomas-Cruse (949-608-2928)
•Technical expert in mass spectrometry
•Review of compliance programs and assignments for issuance and implementation
•Method Development - caffeine in alcoholic beverages, DMAA in dietary supplements,
melatonin in brownies, levomethorphan contaminant in dextromethorphan
•Maintenance and qualification of instrumentation and peripheral equipment
•LC/MS and DART/MS screening of dietary supplements for drugs
•HPLC and LC/MS analysis of components of dietary supplements, such as
unapproved drugs, aristolochic acid, weight loss and erectile dysfunction drugs and
analogues
•LC/MS analysis of drugs and medical devices
•LC/MS screening of food samples as part of the Food Emergency Response Network
for counter-terrorism
•Presentations at AOAC and ASMS National meetings
•Review of private laboratory packages for technical merit and evidence of compliance
•Participation in national calls for work coordination with headquarters divisions and
other field offices
•Training of personnel in laboratory analyses and quality control
•Member of Course Advisory Group for Basic Mass Spectrometry
•Inspection of regulated industry for GMP compliance
Quality Control
•Review of Analytical Worksheets for quality and technical merit
•Review and trending of data for quality control
•Writing Lab-wide SOPs for Method Validation, Quality Assurance and Instrumentation
and QA instrument qualification for HPLC and LC/MS.
Details:
•Acting Import Compliance Manager
•Acting Import Compliance Officer – Non-Foods (cosmetics, dietary supplements,
devices)
•Acting Chemistry Branch Director
Ribapharm (ICN Pharmaceuticals)
3300 Hyland Ave
Costa Mesa, CA 92626 United States
10/2001 - 06/2003
Scientist
•High throughput parallel purification for combinatorial chemistry libraries.
•Method development purifications of challenging compounds
•Quality assurance LC/MS analysis of novel drugs in support of synthetic chemistry
department.
•Supervision of associate level chemists/scientists
Cortex Pharmaceuticals
7700 Irvine Center Drive
Suite 750
Irvine, CA 92618 United States
08/1999 - 10/2001