Distinguished Alumni 2006: Gerald P. Migliaccio

Gerald P. Migliaccio

BA, Chemistry, College of the Holy Cross, 1977
MS, Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue University, 1979

Vice President, Global Quality and Environmental Health and Safety Operations, Pfizer Inc.

Mr. Gerald Migliaccio was born and raised in Rhode Island. Taking part in a high school explorer program at Ciba-Geigy, he was able to catch a glimpse of the job opportunities industry allows. This exposure convinced him a career dealing with pharmaceuticals should be a part of his future. Embarking on this career path, he began college at Holy Cross in Worchester, MA and received a BA in chemistry in 1977. The following semester he started graduate studies at Purdue University and obtained a MS in Medicinal Chemistry in 1979.

After graduation, Mr. Migliaccio assumed a position as Staff Chemist with Pfizer Inc. in Terre Haute, IN. His primary duty involved quality control and modernizing chromatographic analysis. A year later, he transferred to a Development Chemist position at the antibiotic manufacturing facility in Groton, CT. His principal responsibilities were overseeing process development, improvement and troubleshooting. In 1983, he was named the Section Leader of Quality Assurance for active pharmaceutical ingredients produced at the Groton facility and managed GMP procedure development, deviation investigation, audits and product release activities. Relocating to New York City in 1987, he took over as the Director of Process Control for the Chemical Division; supervising overall GMP, safety and environmental compliance for the facilities that manufactured specialty chemicals and active pharmaceutical ingredients.

In 1989, Mr. Migliaccio was promoted to a position in the US Pharmaceutical Division as the Manager of Technical Services where he managed all technical aspects of new product launching at a time when Pfizer was rapidly launching some of their most successful drugs including Norvasc™, Diflucan™, Zoloft™, Zithromax™ and Cardura™. In 1991, following an expansion of duties to include new product planning and packaging services, he was named Director of Production Services.

Following Pfizer's globalization of manufacturing in 1997, Mr. Migliaccio was appointed to Director for Manufacturing Operations. In this role he oversaw manufacturing in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Canada. Two years later, he was appointed to Vice President of Global Quality Operations. In 2005, he accepted the added responsibility of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and currently is responsible for Quality and EHS operations at all Pfizer sites around the world.

Mr. Migliaccio has served as a member of the PhRMA Quality Technical Group since 1999, through which he chaired a GMP Task Force to work with the FDA on aspects of the 21^st Century Drug Product Quality Initiative in 2001. In 2004, he was nominated to serve as the PhRMA industry representative to the FDA's Advisory Committee on Pharmaceutical Sciences. He was named as the Chairman of the ISPE International Leadership Forum in 2004 and appointed Rapporteur for International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) Q10, a harmonized guideline on the Pharmaceutical Quality System. In 2005, he received the ISPE's Professional Acheivement Award.

Mr. Migliaccio's wife Karen, whom he met in organic chemistry at Purdue, received her BS in Chemistry from Notre Dame College of Ohio and her MS in Analytical Chemistry at Purdue. She is currently the Senior Director of Quality Assurance for Pfizer Research and Development's Pharmaceutical Sciences Group. Gerald and Karen are mutually passionate about sail boating and power boating and try and spend as much time as possible on the water.