(Banner Medical: Carol Stream, IL) -- Banner Medical executives Vince Adams, vice president of Sales, Marketing and Strategic Planning; and Bob Khin, quality assurance director; along with Peter Johns, supplier quality manager for Pioneer Surgical, will participate on a faculty panel at the upcoming Supplier Quality Management Congress sponsored by FDAnews, to be held July 31–Aug. 2, 2012, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

The Banner Medical and Pioneer Surgical alliance is a successful strategic OEM and supplier partnership that was formed to address the challenging supplier and raw-material control issues that have been a focus of the FDA and the medical device industry for the past decade. The partnership model, which the two companies have developed together, has produced positive results and yielded best practices that have been recognized by many and already adopted by some within the industry.

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