Regulatory Affairs Expert Witnesses in Pennsylvania

A 17-year veteran of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), this expert served as the Regulatory Counsel to the Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs, and previously, in scientific, inspectional, compliance and criminal and civil enforcement capacities as an FDA Consumer Safety Officer (CSO), Compliance Officer (CO), a Senior Special Agent (SA) with the Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) and as an analytical regulatory microbiologist. During his last three years at FDA he spearheaded the agency's integration efforts with Customs and USDA on crosscutting interagency enforcement and operational issues; served as the FDA's point-person in managing the intersection of imports and FDA's new bioterrorism regulations; established joint agency and industry working groups to evaluate counterfeiting and tampering risks to food and drug distribution supply chains; was the agency lead in its strategic planning efforts to reinvent the FDA's import programs; wrote the initial statement of work and acted as program manager over the FDA's new PREDICT, risk-based electronic entry screening system; and directed the development of the FDA's agency-wide Risk-based Import Strategic Plan designed to improve compliance of foods, dietary supplements, drugs, medical devices, cosmetics, and biological products imported into the U.S. As CEO of a FDA consulting firm and Founder of an affiliated law firm, he currently represents domestic and foreign companies of all sizes, assisting them in identifying USDA, FDA, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and state requirements. He focuses his practice on FDA matters, including but not limited to: matters relating to FDA inspections, FDA criminal, regulatory and administrative enforcement actions for medical devices, drugs, cosmetics, alcohol, tobacco, dietary supplements, and foods.

This former New York DMV manager has decades of experience working for the Department of Motor Vehicles. He held positions as a Clerk and Operations Manager in the White Plains and Albany offices in the 1980s and became Office Manager of the New York District Office in 1993. For 12 years, he served as the District Director in charge of operations in the MetroNorth District, and he finished his career in the DMV as the Regional Director in charge of the Metropolitan Region from 2008 until 2012. After leaving the DMV, the expert briefly served on a county legislature; he now works in the insurance industry.

This extremely qualified expert is a certified pharmacist with years of experience in community pharmacy management and regulatory affairs. He received both his BS degree in pharmacy and his MBA degree from the University at Buffalo. He is a member of multiple professional associations, including the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the American Pharmacists Association and the American Society for Pharmacy Law. He has given 100+ lectures statewide in NYS. His outstanding work has earned him several honors, including the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York's "Faculty Excellence Award" the Pharmacists Association of Western New York's "Pharmacist of the Year" award and the national Bowl of Hygeia award. He is the former coordinator of pharmacy services at the Community Health Center of Buffalo. He is also the former director of pharmaceutical care services at the University of Buffalo. Currently, he is a clinical associate professor of pharmacy practice and administration at a major university, where he also serves as the senior associate dean of the pharmacy school's student, professional and community affairs.

This expert received his BA from Cornell University, and his MD and PhD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his residency in Psychiatry at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute/Brentwood VA Medical Center. He is also a member of numerous academic societies including American Society of Addiction Medicine, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, Society of Biological Psychiatry, College of Problems of Drug Dependence and American Psychiatric Association. He has been highly prolific in his career with over 170 publications. He is a currently a Professor of Psychiatry at an academic medical center.

This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience as an insurance regulator and consultant. He earned his BS in commerce from Rider College. He is an accredited insurance examiner and is a member of the Statutory Accounting Working Group and NAIC Financial Analysis Working Group. He was formerly an assistant chief insurance examiner for the financial analysis unit, at the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance. Additionally, he was an assistant commissioner and the chief insurance examiner for the office of solvency regulation at the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance. He is currently a managing member of an insurance regulation and compliance service company.