Avanos Medical, Inc. Appoints Michelle Scharfenberg as Senior Vice President & Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
September 15, 2020 at 12:00 pm
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Avanos Medical, Inc. announced that Michelle Scharfenberg has been named as the company's senior vice president & chief ethics and compliance officer. In this role, Scharfenberg will be responsible for leading the Avanos Compliance & Ethics (C&E) program, which operationalizes Avanos's commitment to ethical and legally compliant operations. In collaboration with senior management and the board of directors' Compliance Committee, she will define and implement the C&E program's strategic objectives and ensure that Avanos has effective controls in place to comply with the law and company policy and to foster an ethical culture. Scharfenberg's extensive background, including more than 20 years of experience in healthcare law, ethics and compliance, enterprise risk assessment, litigation, internal investigations and Lean methodology, make her uniquely qualified for this role at Avanos. Previously, Scharfenberg served as vice president and chief compliance officer for Cantel Medical Corporation, a leading provider of infection prevention products and services in the healthcare market. While at Cantel, she recast the existing compliance program as a proactive program with a Lean mindset scaled to size and risk, including modifications to the anti-bribery and training programs. Prior to that, Scharfenberg held various global leadership roles at Integra LifeSciences Corporation, a global provider of medical devices and implants for neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery.
Avanos Medical, Inc. is a medical device company, which is focused on delivering solutions. The Company offers healthcare needs, such as providing nutrition to patients from hospital to home and reducing the use of opioids while helping patients move from surgery to recovery. The Company conducts its business in one segment that provides its medical device products to healthcare providers and patients globally with manufacturing facilities in the United States and Mexico. Its digestive health products include MIC-KEY enteral feeding tubes, Corpak patient feeding solutions and NeoMed neonatal and pediatric feeding solutions. The Companyâs acute pain products include ON-Q and ambIT surgical pain pumps and Game Ready cold and compression therapy systems. The Company's interventional pain solutions include COOLIEF pain therapy and OrthogenRxs knee osteoarthritis pain relief injection products.