Larry Hampton

Larry Hampton, PhD, has a unique career that has stretched across the federal government, the pharmaceutical industry and academia. He currently serves in Quality as a manager/team-team lead for the Pfizer Global Services Kalamazoo site. His responsibilities include the audits and inspections and annual products review teams for one of the most complex and largest pharmaceutical manufacturing sites in the Pfizer network. He also serves as the program manager of the Supervisory Development Program at the site.

He began his twelve-year stint in the federal government working in biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health. He then completed his master’s degree working with scientists at the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He recently left the Food and Drug administration to return to the pharmaceutical industry. His over twenty years of experience with the pharmaceutical industry began in the analytical research laboratories at Merck, continued in Sandoz’s quality control group, and is currently the team lead in quality operations at Pfizer.

In addition, he continues his passion for teaching by serving as an adjunct faculty member in the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches a course on Leadership and Change in Biotechnology. He is the proud father of three extraordinary adults changing the world on their terms.