RAPS is pleased to announce that 248 regulatory professionals passed the Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC) exam during the autumn 2017 testing period, thereby earning the RAC credential.

The RAC is the only professional credential for regulatory professionals in the healthcare product sector.  Certification must be maintained through continuous learning and professional development, and renewed every three years. Currently, there are more than 4,500 RAC-credentialed professionals worldwide.

“Congratulations to the latest successful class of applicants for the RAC credential, and to all current holders of the RAC,” said RAPS Executive Director Paul Brooks. “RAC-credentialed professionals not only demonstrate current knowledge of relevant regulations and the critical thinking skills to apply them in a variety of situations, but also have several years of practical RA experience and have committed to improvement of the regulatory affairs profession via continuous learning and growth.”

See below for the complete list of professionals who attained the RAC credential in autumn 2017.

RAC (CAN)

Melanie Cote	Doria Jordanou
Mark Reid	La-Toya Salmon
Raghu Tadagavadi

RAC (EU)

Sofia Campos Silva	Oliver Cox
Marion Gainey	Ankit Geete
Elaine Gibbons	Christine Gibbons Nigida
Anju Mahesh	Daniela Nenciu
Star Dawn Simkins	Julie Watchorn
Jingqing (Jenny) Xia

RAC (GLOBAL)

Jessica Andreshak	Merryn Louise Ang
Liana Bates	Sharmin Bhathena
Hitendra Bhatia	Emily Campbell
Nihinkumar Chavda	Juhua Cui
Florie Daniels	Tamara Davis
Michael C. Dawson	Kathaleen Debarris
Swapnil Dixit	Mary Donovan
Nisha Fernandes	Cristian Florencio Moreno
Kemine Hale	Eri Hirumi
Yaping Hou	Naxin Jiang
Dahee Kim	Dushyant Kumar
Nichole Martin	Nima Ossareh
Samuel Evan Pacamparra	Anna Riggs
Vaibhav Sivaramakrishan	Jingxin Zhang

RAC (US)

Manoj Amaraneni	Stacey Backlund
Odun Balogun	Margaret Batchelder
Stephen H. Beier	Brandon Bell
Denise Bernstein	Robert V. Bienvenu
Nathan Blazei	Almira Blazek-Welsh
Tanya Boutros	Orna Bresler
Kristen Brining	James W. Brodack
Ashley Burns	Zachary Bynum
Josefino M. Cabinian	Xianhua Cao
Roger Cepeda	Shruthi Chandran
Jessica Chapman	Eric Charles
Hui-Chen Chen	Nan Chen
Ti-Chen Chen	Lacey Chessor
Somsundaram Natrajan Chettiar	Charles Chiang
Theresa Cleary	Angela Coy
Shuli Cui	Teresa Curtiss
Kristen Dejeu	Nikin Desai
Fan Ding	Candace Drumma
Megan Eddleman	Willis Ervin Edwards
Matthew Elliott	Paul Engelbrecht
Fangzhou Feng	Mary Ann Fiechtner
Sarah Marie Fitzgerald	Paul Fleming
Steven Fox	Maurizio Franzini
Jason Funk	Yurong Gao
Angelika Beata Gasienica	Leanna Gentry
Sapna Ghelani	Amrita Ghosh
Zachary Joseph Gideon	Lauren Giles
Amy Goh	Hima Bindu Gottam
Jacob Graham	Kristle Green
Carolyn Guthrie	Allison L. Guy
Thomas Hale-Kupiec	Paris Hamilton
Victoria Herbert	Procoro Herrera
Andrew Hertsenberg	Kanesha Ann Hines
Samantha Hoopes	Dirk Horne
Katherine Horton	Cindy Huang
Junmin Huang	Matthew Iorio
Vanessa Isla	Adaku Funke Iwueze-Uwahemu
Reshma Jagasia	Heather Jakes
Deirdre Jayko	Timothy Jetton
Colleen Johns	Mariia Johnson
John Joines	Ashwinder Kaur
Abu Kausar	Rachel Kennedy
Michael Kenny	Ravi Khatri
Bobae Kim	Mijin Kim
Apollo Kironde	Vindeep S. Kohli
Ginny Kwan	Oonagh Lahiff
Mark Land	David Lee
Bianca Li	Shuangwei Li
Shuliang Li	Xueying Liang
Mark A. Liberatore	Reuben G. Lidster
Jianqiao Lin	Yibin Lin
Kelly Lindblom	Yusi Liu
Erica Livingston	Jie Lu
Yong Luo	Kimberly Lupo
Laura Maile	Toluwalope Makinde
Christina Marabella	Sara Mccutchan
Meghan Mcgovern	Kelly Mcknight Barghausen
Rebecca Mock	Raza Hyder Ali Gowher Mohammed
Jo Anna Monteferrante	Meghan Moore
Emi Morohashi	Melanie Morrison
Nithya Murthy	Phyllis Mwaura
Lauren Nemzek	Issa Nesheiwat
Mare Nikolic	Jonalyn Ongos
Rachel Osbeck	Ted Palat
Pan Pan	Himani Parikh
Jakin Patel	Jayshree Patel
Priyanka Patel	Shivam Patel
Tiana Pavlidis	Mary Beth Pelletier
Sherrie Pettiford	Stephanie Pierce
Rebecca Lynn Pishney	Jacqueline Powell
Rachael Powell	Xiaoping Qi
Andrea Quadros	Shruti Rajagopalan
Ashley Rhoades	Kausar Begam Riaz Ahmed
Katherine A. Richardson	Kaitlyn Riffel
Valerie Samantha Rojas Abinader	Laura Elizabeth Rose
John Rossman	Nathan Sabich
Catherine Sanford	Nicholas Sarif
Cheryl Schaaf	Jasmine Schimmel
Christina Schmidt	Kaben Schwartz
Mallory Scott	Angela Scurlock
Aaron Seto	Sulamif Shaakov
Manan Shah	Manshi Shah
Farhan Shahab	Dipika Tuteja Shringarpure
Jessica Silverman	Bhupinder Singh
Komal Singh	Ambrish Sinha
Eugenia Smith	Joseph Smithes
Laura Sobrin	Phyo Soe
Ting Song	Kristen Soodak
Joshua Taylor	Paola Teegarden
Zehra Tosun	Natysha Tucker
Nikki Turakhia	Nancy Underwood
Jillian Van Belle	Kiran Vangara
Phebe Varghese	Sonia Villegas
Jialynn Wang	Li-Shu Wang
Silvia Wanis	Amy Warren
Julie Warren	Sahar E. Wazen
Xiaodan Wen	Brian Wiggins
Amanda Wood	Xiangling Xiong
Markus Yap	Anuja Yardi
Marshall Yu	Weimin Yue
Rui Zhang	Youna Zhao
Jeff Zhou	Mengping Zhu

There are four different RAC certifications available: the RAC (US) covering US regulations, the RAC (EU) covering European regulations, the RAC (CAN) covering Canadian regulations and the RAC (Global), which covers general regulatory responsibilities and international standards. RAC exams and the criteria for maintaining the credential are developed, managed and administered by the Regulatory Affairs Certification Board (RACB) with support from RAPS.

The next RAC exams will be given this April and May. They are administered at dozens of locations across globe. Registration is now open for the spring exams; the deadline to apply is 1 March. For more information, visit RAPS.org/rac.