Ms. Hawlk is an independent Quality Assurance (QA) consultant providing services to Advanced Clinical Research Services (ACRS). Ms. Hawlk’s contracted duties include assisting in hosting client visits, performing vendor audits, compliance reviews of internal standard operating procedures, and to perform periodic internal audits of ACRS processes/systems.

Prior to her role as an independent QA consultant Ms. Hawlk served as the Manager of Contract Quality Assurance Services at PAREXEL International. Her responsibilities at PAREXEL included managing and coordinating the contracted QA services for North America. In her role as an independent QA consultant, her responsibilities have included various types of preclinical and clinical audits including: systems audits, investigational site audits, Vendor/CRO audits, laboratory audits, document audits and data reviews. In addition, Ms. Hawlk has been involved with the generation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) and the development/ execution of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) training programs.

Ms. Hawlk is a QA professional with over 23 years of industry experience. Ms Hawlk will be responsible for providing regulatory and quality assurance support to ensure that company tasks are conducted in compliance with applicable regulations, guidelines, study protocols, and internal standard operating procedures.

Ms. Hawlk has a degree in Animal Health Technology and is a certified Clinical Research Professional.