Christian Spanu

Christian Spanu, Ph.D., serves as the Senior Manager of Global Product Risk Management at Philips since September 2015, focusing on optimizing safety policies and enhancing patient safety and product quality across global products. Prior to this role, Christian held various engineering and project management positions, including Principal R&D Project Engineer at Olympus Surgical Technologies America and Manufacturing Engineer at CoorsTek. Christian's expertise encompasses risk management in accordance with ISO standards, quality management systems, and medical device regulations, with a track record of executing post-market surveillance and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Christian received a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences and a Master’s in Industrial Engineering, specializing in biomechanics, from The University of Toledo.