David Adams

David began his pharmaceutical career in 2007 with Hospira, in Lake Forest, IL, performing BET and potency testing in the global stabilities lab. From there, he began managing packaging and labeling activities at Fisher Clinical Services for five years.  In 2015, David moved to Takeda where he was a Senior Program Manager, focusing on delivery of clinical supplies for Takeda’s vaccines division.  David is  now a Clinical Supplies Lead at Shire, at their Lexington, MA, location.  He is responsible for packaging, labeling, distribution, returns, reconciliation, and destruction activities for both large and small molecule drug products for global studies, which involve direct-to-patient services in North America and the EU.  Through these efforts, David has focused on developing Shire’s management of direct-to-patient services which include improving logistics, chain of custody, communication, understanding regulatory impact, issue tracking, and lessons learned.