Position: Compliance, Technical Operations Advisor
Karon J. Morell’s professional career spans over 50 years with 27 of them in executive leadership roles in the biotech, tissue, medical and pharmaceutical industries. Ms. Morell has deep compliance, clinical, regulatory, quality affairs, manufacturing, and technical operational expertise. Over the course of her career, she has successfully led diverse teams globally, achieved international agency product and facility approvals and has never received a U.S. FDA or International FDA inspection observation or finding.
Prior to Benuvia, Ms. Morell held senior positions in compliance, regulatory, quality affairs and operations for Suneva Medical and its predecessor company for 12 years. During her tenure at the firm, Ms. Morell was responsible for the oversight of the company’s California corporate manufacturing facility for Artefill (now Bellafill) and its German facility which produced the critical raw component Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). Previously, Ms. Morell served as VP of Compliance, Regulatory, Quality Systems, Assurance & Control and as Tissue Bank Director at IsoTis Orthobiologics (now Integra LifeSciences). At IsoTis, she was instrumental in re-classifying some of the company’s biological human tissue products as medical devices. Prior to IsoTis, she held senior quality and regulatory roles at Medegen Medical Products, Nobel Biocare and Newport Medical Instruments.
Ms. Morell received a BS in Business Management from Southern California University.