Melissa Goodhead

Regulatory and Compliance Manager

Melissa Goodhead is a well-rounded pharmaceutical executive with over 20 years’ of extensive experience in all aspects of the pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostic arenas; providing executive management and expertise in regulatory strategy/writing/approval, clinical research strategy/design and management, compound development, manufacturing and post-marketing venues. She has held positions of increasing responsibility and authority in senior management at Somerset Pharmaceuticals, for 17 years, where she was responsible for regulatory strategy, development and manufacturing. In the latter years, holding the position of Vice President of Regulatory and Quality. Ms. Goodhead subsequently developed her own consulting firm where she authored and led multiple successful 505(b)(1), 505(b)(2) and IND applications, in multiple Divisions. She has extensive expertise in the CNS and ophthalmologic Divisions as well as oncology, dermatology, medical devices and biologics. Ms. Goodhead received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of South Florida and a Masters in Science from the University of Tampa.