Betty Lane

Betty Lane has over 30 years experience in Medical Device quality assurance and regulatory affairs. She is the founder and President of Be Quality Associates, LLC, a consulting company helping small and medium sized medical device and diagnostic companies implement and improve their quality systems.

Her work enables companies to manage their business in compliance with FDA and ISO 13485 requirements, as well for quality system requirements for other geographic area such as Europe and Canada. Her background in digital systems engineering enables her to facilitate quality system processes for design controls and software validation. Her areas of expertise include training, auditing, supplier management, document and records management, design controls, and software validation.

Betty's training experience includes over 25 years of training on all aspects of ISO 13485, the ISO standard for Medical Device - Quality Management Systems - System Requirements for regulatory purposes, and FDA Quality System Regulation - Medical Devices; Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP), in companies where she worked as manager or director, and for AAMI, ASQ biomedical division, and ASQ sections.

She has taught courses in medical device and biotechnology quality and regulatory affairs as an Adjunct at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Betty is active in her local section of the American Society for Quality and is also a member of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), The Society of Women Engineers and the IEEE. Betty has degrees in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and an MBA from Northeastern University.