Jonathan Wilder, PHD, MS, MBA, BS

Jonathan Wilder brings more than 30 years of experience in medical device reprocessing that includes thermal and chemical sterilization methods, disinfection, and cleaning. Jonathan is an expert in medical device reprocessing audits that meet compliance efforts in healthcare markets both nationally and internationally for the Joint Commission and in meeting FDA standards.

Jonathan currently owns and manages Quality Processing Resource Group (QPRG) in partnership with H & W Technology and SMP laboratories to deliver ongoing consulting to immediately solve key challenges and problems facing the full spectrum of needs at medical device reprocessing facilities and manufacturers of reusable medical devices. Jonathan’s team bridges the gap for leadership and facilities alike, providing the voice of each to the other to help clarify understanding of the needs and capabilities of each. Since 2016, QPRG has further delivered hospital audit services nationwide to facilities and hospitals to ensure Joint Commission survey readiness in all areas of sterile processing.

In 1998, Jonathan co-founded H&W Technology, LLC dba Stericert Co. to meet ongoing and critical needs facing medical device reprocessing markets that includes delivering products and services for sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning at healthcare facilities nationwide. The products and services include: 

  • Steam sterilizers (resistometers) to validate sterilization indicators,

  • Audits for compliance with national and international standards

  • Steam quality measurement and problem remediation

  • Instrument cleaning and cleaning verification

  • Prevention of event-related sterilization failures

  • Sterilizer and washer verification and validation

  • Optimization

  • Staining mitigation

  • Worker infection protection

  • FDA filing assistance for client firms.

In Jonthan’s early career from 1990 to 1997, he was a staff scientist at MDT Corporation where he developed novel sterilization methods and technologies. He developed a “plasma” sterilization method on which four patents were granted. The novel method was instrumental in obtaining clearance for a thermal washer disinfector from the FDA and Health Canada.

Jonthan earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics in 1986 and his Master of Science degree in 1983. He completed both degrees at New York University. He earned his MBA in Technology Management in 1996 from Rochester Institute of Technology, and he completed his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Hofstra University in 1979. Jonthan has been an active participant in AAMI sterilization standards committees and is the immediate past cochair of the US standards-making committees for hospital steam and ethylene oxide sterilizers. He has also been a US expert delegate to ISO TC198 working groups 11 (general criteria for sterilization processes and equipment) and 16 (vapor hydrogen peroxide sterilization processes).