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| Marc Gonzalez Pharm.D. - Safe Call Now Board Member |
Marc Gonzalez, Pharm.D, earned his Doctor of
Pharmacy degree from the University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Gonzalez is the President of Pharmaceutical Diversion Consultants, LLC,
providing training to military, law enforcement, and health care professionals.
His consulting services also include
conducting compliance evaluations for all entities registered with the
Drug Enforcement Administration, including doctors practicing in pain management;
providing education and risk mitigation plans to bring pharmacies into
compliance and fulfill their corresponding responsibilities; assisting in
applying for Prescription Monitoring Programs; providing speakers from federal,
state, regulatory, and local law enforcement; and providing assistance to
wholesalers who struggle to understand
and initiate compliance programs under the DEA "Know Your Customer"
wholesaler standards.
Dr. Gonzalez also provides expert testimony
on all drug related matters from appropriate prescribing to drug facilitated
sexual assault. He also serves as President of the California Chapter, National
Association of Drug Diversion Investigators, as well as a consultant for the
Department of Defense. His responsibilities with the DoD include training and
advising military and law enforcement, and participating in various projects
requested from as high as the Office of the President. Dr. Gonzalez is
currently the lead instructor for the Department of Defense’s Regional Counter
Drug Training Academy at Naval Air Station Meridian. He has also trained at
Midwest Counter Drug, and Western Counter Drug Training Academies at their
resident military bases throughout the country. Dr. Gonzalez has conducted
numerous trainings for military investigative services (NCIS, Army CID, OSI,
CGIS, and USMC CID) throughout the World. Dr. Gonzalez is currently an
instructor for the California Narcotic Officers’ Association and the
International Chiefs’ of Police – Drug Recognition Experts. Dr. Gonzalez
developed the original section on “Medical and Psychological Rule-outs” for the
IACP-DRE. He is also part of the core course for DRE with the California
Highway Patrol, Impaired Driver Unit’s “Pre-School,” and the Los Angeles Police
Department’s “Re-Certification” DRE School. He has re-certified DRE’s
throughout the country. Dr. Gonzalez is a contributing author and editor for
training modules for the Coalition "End Violence Against Women."
Dr. Gonzalez is a graduate of Senator
Presley’s Institute for Criminal Investigation, which allows him to certify
other instructors as California Peace Officer Standards and Training
Instructors. He has instructed health
care on Advanced Cardiac Life Support and military/law enforcement on Tactical
Emergency Treatment. Dr. Gonzalez has trained medical, military and law
enforcement personnel in the medical aspects of biological and chemical warfare
agents. He previously served on a response team for hospitals in the Los
Angeles area in the event of an attack.
Dr.
Gonzalez previously worked for Purdue Pharma, L.P, in Corporate Security as a
Law Enforcement Liaison and Educator, training thousands of law enforcement
officers, health care professionals, military, and military investigative
services. Dr. Gonzalez previously worked for the State of California, Department
of Consumer Affairs, as a peace officer, where he supervised investigations
involving violations of state and federal laws and regulations relating to
medical practitioners and allied health professionals. Dr. Gonzalez was also a California State Board
of Pharmacy Inspector.
Dr.
Gonzalez served as Head of the Professional Diversion Intelligence Network/Drug
Enforcement Administration, a training and task force dealing with
pharmaceutical diversion cases nationwide. As head of this task force, Dr.
Gonzalez was awarded the highest award that can be given to a California Peace
officer by then Attorney General Dan Lungren, The Certificate of Commendation
for outstanding contributions and dedication to California drug enforcement.
Dr. Gonzalez volunteered for the Los Angeles Police Department for eight years
and was named “Volunteer of the Year” by then Mayor Tom Bradley and the City
Council in 1990, for the amount of hours he worked and the impact he made on
crime at the West Los Angeles Division.
In
the University setting, Dr. Gonzalez worked as a Clinical Instructor of
Pharmacy at the University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy. Additionally, he was on the United States
Attorney General’s Speakers Bureau for the Department of Justice and Drug
Enforcement Administration to present topics on pharmaceutical diversion.
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