Abdiel Alvarez, Ph.D.
Abdiel Alvarez, Ph.D. serves as the Head of Quality across all Vision manufacturing sites and regional commercial offices. He has supported Vision in their quality and compliance departments since 2013.
Prior to Johnson & Johnson, Abdiel worked within the orthopedics industry where he served as the Director of Quality Operations and was responsible for all quality checkpoints, from incoming to product release, for all on-site operations.
He also served various roles within the medical diagnostics industry, including as the Senior Manager of Quality Systems and Compliance. Abdiel was responsible for all elements of quality systems, including CAPA, non-conformance, and audit management for both diabetes products and Clinical Chemistry.
Abdiel was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where he studied Pathogen Airborne Contamination. He also worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at St Jude's Children Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where he studied HIV and influenza.