Dr. Barbara Kinnaird
Chief Executive Officer
Business Development
Response Point of Care (Response Biomedical)
China
Biography
Dr. Barbara Kinnaird has over 25 years of research and business experience primarily in the fields of point of care (POC) testing and in vitro diagnostics. Since joining Response Biomedical Corp. in August 2004, Dr. Kinnaird has held several key management positions including responsibilities for Product Development, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing and Sales. Dr. Kinnaird has consistently demonstrated her ability to deliver results from her areas of responsibility. During Dr. Kinnaird’s tenure in these positions, she has lead teams to improve the product design control, operational efficiencies, gross margins and sales. Additionally under her direction, the Company obtained and maintain regulatory approvals to support sales in several global jurisdictions such as China, Japan, United States and Canada. Dr. Kinnaird’s strengths include her extensive experience in empowering a team to manage through organizational changes that improve the Company processes, decrease costs and accelerate business performance. Dr. Kinnaird holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of British Columbia at the B.C. Children’s Hospital in the Department of Pediatrics. She conducted her post-doctoral research at the Michael Smith Laboratories in genomics and gene expression profiling, in collaboration with the B.C. Genome Sciences Centre and consulted for the Proteomics division of Incyte Genomics Inc.
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