Jan 08, 2015

John R. Logar, senior director of aseptic processing and radiation sterilization at Johnson & Johnson Sterility Assurance, Raritan, New Jersey, has joined the ASTM International board of directors for a three-year term.

Logar, an ASTM member since 2001, is chairman of Committee E61 on Radiation Processing and of Subcommittee E61.01 on Dosimetry. Organized in 2012, E61 previously had been part of Committee E10 on Nuclear Technology and Applications, and Logar was E10 vice chair from 2010 to 2012. Committee E10 honored Logar with the Peter D. Hedgecock Award in 2010 for his contributions to the development of radiation processing standards. Logar served on the ASTM Standing Committee on Technical Committee Operations from 2012 to 2014 and is also a member of Committees E11 on Quality and Statistics, F02 on Flexible Barrier Packaging and F04 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices. 

At Johnson & Johnson Sterility Assurance, a global healthcare products manufacturer and provider of related services to the consumer, pharmaceutical and medical markets, Logar leads and has oversight for sterility assurance operations for aseptic processing and radiation sterilized products; he also ensures compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Logar began his career as a quality assurance manager at SteriGenics in 1996; he then was a senior technical manager and a director of radiation dosimetry for SteriGenics International. In 2008, he became manager and then associate director of research and development for sterilization, science and technology at Ethicon Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company. He assumed his current role in 2013.

Outside ASTM, Logar is a member of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards, the Radiation Process Simulation and Modeling User Group, and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). At ISO he is convener of Working Group 3 on Dosimetry for Radiation Processing in Technical Committee 85 on Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Technologies and Radiological Protection. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey.

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