Rama is the APAC Head of Quality and Regulatory in Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific. She leads the regional quality and regulatory functions covering diagnostics and digital products, in the APAC region. Rama has over 15 years of experience in medical device quality and regulatory functions.
Prior to joining Roche, Rama was the Director, Medical Devices in the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), overseeing the pre- and post-market regulatory activities for all medical devices including medical device combination products. She represented Singapore as a member of the Management Committee of the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF), Primary Representative for Singapore in the Global Harmonisation Working Party (GHWP) and as the head of delegation for Singapore in the ASEAN Medical Device Committee (AMDC).
Rama holds a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research focused on chronic neuropathic pain, identifying novel biomarkers related to pain and developing novel diagnostic methods using principles of chemistry in analysis of biological samples.
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