Beth Crandall is a respected leader with over 25 years of experience in the life sciences industry focused on the regulated medical device market. She has a successful track record of leading large quality management system programs and implementing changes to organizations, policies, procedures, and software systems. She also has direct experience conducting assessments for Quality and Regulatory organizations, including evaluation of processes, best practices, functional responsibilities, structure, and staffing.
Beth has a passion for helping people understand and translate complex and confusing regulatory requirements into practical solutions that improve lives and make a difference in patient safety.
Beth has held full time roles in Information Systems and Quality at Guidant Corporation and Boston Scientific, and served in a variety of consulting and leadership roles at Andersen Consulting, UserTech, Maetrics, and RQM+.
She earned a BA in Business Administration, Human Resource Management from the College of St. Thomas and has been a certified Project Manager (PMI PMP) since 2012. She has presented at several medical device conferences and published multiple articles throughout her career, including “A Blueprint for Quality” in MD&DI magazine and articles for multiple publications on the topic of the European Union’s Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR, 2017/745).
Beth is now an independent consultant and has worked in partnership with Lanterna Consulting since 2022, combining her consulting experience and expertise in life science, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, organizational change, and project management to help clients in the global life science market.
Beth and I have worked for many years together on various different programs of both small and large scale, for smaller private organizations and for fortune 100 corporations. I have relied for many years on her experience, calm and poise, and program management expertise to scale Quality Systems, tackle significant remediation, and implement new requirements. I have been so pleased to have had the opportunity to work with her and know her for over 15 years, and to work together to enable companies to bring life changing medical devices to market!
Caroline Byrd
VP Regulatory, Quality and Clinical at Nextern