Practical AI for Certifiers: What Works Today, What Does Not, And Where The Line Is
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
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Webinar Overview

Artificial intelligence has arrived in the certification industry faster than the guidance has. This session cuts past the hype and demonstrates four concrete applications a certification firm can put to work immediately: report narrative drafting, client-facing translation of technical findings, gap analysis of internal procedures against updated standard revisions, and trending across a firm's own historical certification data. Two of the four are shown live, working from sanitized sample documents. The data trending segment is candid about where the manual approach breaks down and why sustained analytics belongs in a secured system of record rather than in ad hoc uploads to a general-purpose tool. The session closes with the part most AI presentations skip, which is the guardrails. Certification carries professional attestation and liability. This talk draws a clear line between work AI can draft and work that must remain the certifier's own, and it covers client confidentiality, the handling of copyrighted standards, and the very real risk of fabricated regulatory citations. A short closing segment gives attendees a realistic first step to take back to the office.

Learning Objectives

• Identify four operational areas where AI tools can reduce administrative burden in a certification practice without touching test data or pass and fail determinations.
• Describe a documented gap analysis workflow for comparing internal procedures against a revised standard.
• Recognize the confidentiality, copyright, and accuracy risks specific to AI use in the certification field, and explain why sustained analytics belong in a secured system of record rather than in ad hoc uploads.

Speaker

David Melton, PharmD, BCSCP, Pharmacist Specialist in Compounding Compliance at University of Michigan Health

David Melton, PharmD, BCSCP, is a Pharmacist Specialist in Compounding Compliance at University of Michigan Health, where he leads facility management for more than 25 compounding locations across the health system. His work spans cleanroom design and construction, certification oversight, and environmental monitoring, and he chairs the health system's Environmental Monitoring Review and Pharmacy Downtime Committees. David is board certified in sterile compounding and serves on the Board of Pharmacy Specialties Specialty Council on Sterile Compounding Pharmacy. He teaches compounding at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy and precepts pharmacy residents in sterile and nonsterile compounding practice. His areas of expertise include USP Chapters 795, 797, and 800, CETA Certification Application Guides, NSF/ANSI 49, ISO 14644, and FDA insanitary conditions guidance. His published research in the Journal of the IEST examined relative humidity as a predictor of viable environmental monitoring excursions across 11 cleanrooms, work that continues to shape how he approaches facility monitoring and remediation. Outside the health system, David consults on compounding facility compliance and is the founder of C3 Access.