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This person was once a Quality Director and worked for Boston Scientific and then rejoined Stryker in 2015. She has been Management Representative, but she had her beginnings in Supplier Quality. They are had Top Secret Government Clearance.
Who is Nancy Zerbato?
These are the 2 types of Strokes that make up the total of 17 million first-time strokes that happen each year.
What is Hemorrhagic and Ischemic?
Growing up in Athens, Michigan, this is the name of the founder of the Stryker company.
Who is Homer Stryker?
This process makes sure that material and documents from one lot never mix with those of another lot and is performed every time a production process is started
What is Line Clearance?
The Process, aka NPI, is a step in the Research and development process to bring technology & advancements to the market.
What is New Product innovation?
In Sep 1989, "Doogie Howser, M.D.", starring Neil Patrick Harris as a teenage physician, debuts on ABC, which is the same month that this "longest Tenure" Fremont GQO employee started her career with us.
Who is Tiffany Nguyen?
This item is comprised of a self-expanding nitinol structure pre-loaded on an enhanced delivery wire. Its open cell architecture is designed for flexibility and conformance to vessel walls.
What is the Nueroform or Wingspan Stent?
In addition to being the home of 4 Stryker Facilities, this city and state is the location of Stryker Corporate Headquarters.
What is Kalamazoo, Michigan
These are the 4 SYK manufacturing sites that currently make NV product
What is Cork, Salt Lake City, West Valley, and Fremont?
This industry wide standard, aka GMP, suggests acceptable documentation procedures.
What is Good Manufacturing Practices?
This person shoots skeet and trap competitively.
Who is Brian Bowen?
This Stryker NV Brand is the single biggest brand within the portfolio with about $300M in annual sales.
What is Target?
In 2017, Kevin Lobo gave newly branded jackets to ALL SYK employees to celebrate this 2016 financial milestone.
What is $10 Billion in Sales?
This is day that Stryker completed the acquisition of BSC for $1.5B
What is Jan 3, 2011?
This process, aka CN, is undertaken to route, document, and approve all changes relating to manufacturing processes.
What is a Change Notice?
This University or Utah Graduate started the saying, "time is brain" and advocates for stroke awareness strongly.
Who is Mark Paul?
This clinical trial paved the way for retriever stroke intervention to be used even after the previous 6 hour limit. it was named after a beautiful morning vista.
What is the Dawn Trial?
The Robotic Surgical system is the feature product from this company, who was acquired by Stryker in 2013.
What is MAKO?
In 2017, the NV division had $690 million in Sales Revenue, which represented this percentage of SYK Total sales
What is 5.5%?
The fewer of these the better. This occurs when a quality issue escapes a control which was designed to catch the issue. The QI requires a special investigation.
What is a Quality Incident?
She is one of the 10 board of directors of SYK, who also happens to be the grand daughter of the founder and largest shareholder of the company.
Who is Rhonda Stryker?
This product was the 1st PMA ever for Stryker Neurovascular and only the 2nd of its kind to receive FDA approval in the United States.
What is the Surpass Streamline Flow Diverter?
This was the first product produced and sold by Homer Stryker in 1941.
What is the Turning Table?
Before Stryker, the Neuroform and Wingspan products were manufactured by Boston Scientific, but before that they were made by this company who was purchased by Boston SCI in 1997.
What is Target Therapeutics?
This process, aka CAR, is the process of giving feedback on an employees previous 12 months of performance
What is a Common Annual Review?