When Drugs and Devices Come Together, Safety Considerations Get More Complex. Dr. Khaudeja Bano, Vice President Combination Product Quality at Amgen, joined the Safety Signals Podcast to discuss the unique safety challenges posed by products that include both drugs and devices. In this episode of Safety Signals, Dr. Bano talks about: The different safety approaches in the drug and device worlds Supporting women in clinical research Why safety and quality organizations need to speak the same language   “The word ‘signal’ means nothing to my quality peers and the word ‘trend' means nothing to my safety peers,” Dr. Bano says. “So some of our growing pains are around truly bringing the cross-functional team together to start speaking the same language.” To hear more from Safety Signals, check us out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on our website.  Listening on a desktop and can’t see the links? Just search for Safety Signals on your favorite podcast player. The views of the hosts and guests featured on Safety Signals are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Saama or the individual companies for which the guests may work.