Ms. Sarah Cohen is the Executive Officer of SALDA as well as an Independent Consultant in the IVD/Laboratory Industry.

She has over 30 years’ experience in laboratory testing and research, specializing in IVDs and clinical trials.

She liaises with SALDA members and other stakeholders with regards to the MedTech Industry, emphasis being IVDs, and is solutions driven to assist the industry to navigate regulatory requirements, product importation, tenders, validation and health technology assessment.

She represents SALDA on the SAHPRA Regulatory Technical Forum .

Her passion is training, lecturing, and mentoring of clinical trial and laboratory personnel as well as upskilling the next generation of pharmaceutical sciences students for the MedTech industry.

She is a member of the Medical Devices Professionals Group and South African Clinical Trials Association

She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Laboratory Management (Pretoria), Masters in Operations Management (Johannesburg) and MBA (Australia).