Angela Johnson, PhD, RAC drives breakthrough medical technology commercialization as Senior Vice President of Advisory Services at Avania, leveraging 25+ years of regulatory strategy expertise across FDA, EU MDR/IVDR, and Asia-Pacific markets. She has guided global teams at Cytiva, GE Healthcare, and IQVIA, and led the regulatory functions for multiple VC-backed companies through successful IPOs and strategic exits, with particular focus on combination products, digital health, and AI-enabled devices. She has been recognized novel research in medical devices, including a National Levy Award from American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR) for algorithm-enabled medical devices. Angela shapes industry knowledge as adjunct faculty at Northeastern University and contributing author for the Regulatory Professional Affairs Society (RAPS). She holds a Masters in Materials Engineering for North Carolina State University and a PhD in Technical Communications in Biomedicines from Texas Tech University.