Dr. Shereka Banton - Chair

Dr. Shereka Banton is an Associate Director in Regulatory Affairs at Johnson & Johnson, a multinational pharmaceutical and medical technology company. She currently oversees the commercial regulatory affairs activities for her company’s surgical medical devices that are provided to patients and hospitals worldwide.

Throughout her career, Banton has been focused on integrating biomedical research and public policy to reduce inequities in medicine and science. While majoring in biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech, Banton conducted research on sickle cell disease. Banton focused on the biomechanical underpinnings of the disease in addition to the sociological context, serving in that time as a CSPC Presidential Fellow and science policy intern at the National Science Foundation.

After earning her PhD in biomedical engineering, Dr. Banton joined the Regulatory Affairs teams first at Johnson and Johnson, and then at Becton, Dickinson & Company before returning to Johnson and Johnson. In her roles Dr. Banton has supported innovation for the companies’ global surgical medical device businesses, while ensuring that the devices are safe & effective for their intended uses.