DEA Compliance Expert - Former DEA Agent in Charge

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dennis Wichern is a partner in PDC, where he focuses his efforts on DEA compliance initiatives, drug diversion prevention, and training to protect healthcare organizations, providers, pharmacies, ASC’s, OTP’s, and DVM’s nationwide. His experience includes 30 years of public service as a DEA Special Agent retiring in 2018 as the Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division where he directed all criminal enforcement and diversion control operations in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota with a team of approximately 550 employees. Dennis was the first to develop DEA compliance, diversion prevention, and training relating to pain and prescription opioids, SAMHSA OTP’s regulations, hospital, pharmacy, ketamine therapy, ASC, and DVM drug protocols. Dennis is a recognized expert on the dangers of the opioid epidemic and routinely speaks to healthcare organizations, pharmacies, providers, ASC’s, OTP’s, and DVM’s to identify methods to better safeguard their practices and reduce the professional and operational risks emanating from these threats. Dennis has been a guest lecturer on medical prescriber safeguards to medical students, residents, prescribers and medical staff specialists at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Illinois State Medical Society; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; and multiple hospital organizations across the nation. Dennis has also lectured with the American Bar Association; the American Health Lawyers Association; the Health Care Compliance Association, the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, ASIPP, ASHRM, ASPL, NAADAC, and at the DEA Training Center in Quantico, VA.