Director IVDR-MDR
MedTech Europe
Petra directs MedTech Europe’s team focusing on implementation of the EU regulatory systems for medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices. She represents MedTech Europe to external fora on strategic regulatory policy questions, including the Medical Devices Coordination Group. She also acts as part of MedTech Europe’s leadership team, ensuring collaboration and coherence on topics which cross over to other areas in the medical technology ecosystem.
Since Petra joined the association (previously EDMA, now MedTech Europe) in February 2012, her work has included leading and representing the association on regulatory policy in various domains including on implementation of the IVD Regulation, CE-marking topics, device labelling, trade in animal by-products, European database, medtech standards, and regulation of substances and electronic devices, amongst others.
Before MedTech Europe, Petra worked for the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham EU), where she headed up the policy team working on both legislative and regulatory issues. She also worked within the government affairs team of Genzyme. As an American-German national raised in Denmark who has lived many years in Belgium, Petra is a native English speaker with intermediate to good Dutch, Danish, German and French. Petra is married to a Belgian telecommunications engineer and has two young energetic sons.
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