MG de Jong has extensive international regulatory experience in the healthcare industry. She has held management positions with leading healthcare medical device companies prior to founding the consulting partnership, Medidas Medical Technologies in 1993. Medidas focuses on small- to medium-sized companies looking at regulatory compliance solutions to a wide variety of global healthcare issues pertaining to medical devices, human and animal tissue products and advanced therapies. In addition, Ms de Jong is an ISO 9000/ISO 3485-experienced auditor; member of various professional business organisations; and a frequent contributor of publications to leading regulatory and clinical journals. Together with her business partner, she has developed a web-based clinical trial quality system for medical devices and written the international authoritative reference manual on state-of-the-art clinical trials with medical devices.