Dr. Barton Cobert has worked at Ives Laboratories (now Wyeth), Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals (now Sanofi-Aventis), Schering-Plough (now Merck), Novartis Consumer Health, Forest Laboratories, and Becton Dickinson. He was head of Global Drug Safety at Schering Plough and also headed the Global Drug Safety group at Novartis Consumer Health. Bart has written five textbooks on Drug Safety. Dr. Cobert has senior-level experience in drug safety crisis management, interactions with FDA & other health authorities, organizational re-engineering, training, compliance/quality, GCP, and risk management.