Tuesday, October 4th

7:30am
Registration & Coffee Service
Vendor area open

8:30am
Morning General Session – Opening Remarks
James Schwartz, NADDI National President
Ocean City (MD) Police Department

Scope of the Rx Problem 2022 – What the Future Holds
Lisa McElhaney, NADDI Chief Operating Officer
Broward County (FL) Sheriff’s Office (retired)

Commonly Abused Rx Drugs and New Drugs of Abuse
Marc Gonzalez, PharmD
NADDI Associate Director Training & Education
California Division of Investigation

11:30am
Lunch on your own

1:00pm
Afternoon Opening General Session Remarks
Charlie Cichon
NADDI Executive Director

Indianapolis Police Department Honor Guard
Pledge of Allegiance

Welcoming Remarks
Chief Randall Taylor (Invited)
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department

Keynote Speaker
The Honorable Krsti Noem (Invited)
Governor of South Dakota

A Memoir of Addiction, Recovery and Redemption in Professional Football
Randy Grimes, 10 Year Veteran of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Randy is a 10-year NFL veteran who became dependent on opioid medications   while playing pro football.  The abuse of prescription medications used to treat his chronic injuries eventually led him to playing in blackouts which ultimately cost him his fame, wealth, career, social status and nearly claiming his life.  In September 2009, after hitting rock bottom, he surrendered himself to a treatment facility to get his life back on track.  He’s been in recovery since after overcoming his addiction and now serves as a mentor, educator, counselor and friend, helping others with substance abuse.

“Meet the FDA Agents Who Bust Bad Cops”
Special Agent Justin Green (Invited)
Deputy Director
FDA Office of Criminal Investigations

Wednesday, October 5th

7:30am Coffee Service – Exhibits open

8:30am
General Session

Noon
Luncheon Included

The Changing Faces of Healthcare Fraud
Daniel S. Harkness, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI
Houston Healthcare Fraud Squad
SSA Harkness will speak on current health care fraud schemes the FBI is currently tracking from an investigator’s perspective. The presentation will include brief history of healthcare and healthcare fraud in the US.

Things Found in your Corner Store – Delta 8, CBD, Kratom
Amy Ronshausen, Executive Director
Drug Free America Foundation
Amy Ronshausen is the Executive Director of both Drug Free America Foundation, Inc. and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.), national nonprofit organizations that work prevent substance abuse, increase access to evidence based treatment, and promote sustained recovery.

Fake Pills in Both the Legitimate & Illegitimate Drug Supply Chain in the USA
Shabbir J. Safdar, Executive Director
Partnership for Safe Medicines
In 2022 we’ve seen disturbing new trends in fake HIV medicine in the legitimate supply chain and fake pills made with fentanyl and fake blood thinners in the illegitimate supply chain. In this session PSM head Shabbir Imber Safdar will take apart these crimes using what we’ve learned from court documents and conversations with people affected by the crime. He’ll teach you how to spot signs of this crime, and how the new DSCSA “Track and Trace” system for all US pharmaceuticals is helping investigators detect counterfeit product that couldn’t be identified in previous years.

Topic TBA
Chuck L. Cohen, Vice President
National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)
Chuck is a retired Indiana State Police Captain where he served for over 25 years. He was most recently the Intelligence and Investigative Technologies Commander responsible for the cybercrime, electronic surveillance, technical services, and Internet crimes against children units along with overseeing the department’s overt and covert criminal intelligence functions. Chuck was the Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center Executive Director and Indiana Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Commander.

Vaping Me Crazy – Steered Straight
Michael R. Deleon, Founder
A successfully acclimated ex-offender who after nearly 8 years of drug addiction and    gang involvement, spent 12 years in state prison and half-way houses for a gang-related homicide. Michael plead guilty in a very emotional and complicated case involving the murder of his own mother by people tasked to kill him.  Since Michael’s release from prison, he has earned 3 Associates Degrees, a Baccalaureate Degree in Business Management, with a minor in Criminal Justice and a CADC Educational Certificate. Michael is now in the process of obtaining his Tobacco Specialist certification from the University of Kentucky School of Nursing, his master’s degree in Social Work at Liberty University School of Social Work as well as pursuing his LCADC.

What to do about Drug Diversion in Hospitals
Elaine Cox, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Riley Children’s Hospital Indianapolis
Dr. Elaine Cox is the Chief Medical Officer at Riley Children’s Health in Indianapolis. Before her transition to Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Cox had served as the Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Outpatient Director of the Ryan White Center for Pediatric Infectious Disease and Global Health. The focus of her clinical practice was in pediatric HIV/AIDs. In her leadership roles, Dr. Cox led the effort to require Indiana to provide HIV testing for pregnant women, testified before Congress on ways to combat hospital-acquired infections and continues to champion quality and safety initiatives within the IU Health system.

Thursday, October 6th

7:30am Coffee Service – Exhibits open

8:30am
General Session

Noon
Luncheon Included

Walgreens – Major Crimes
Steve Walker, LPC, Cpht
Lead Director – Major Crimes
Walgreens Asset Protection Solutions
Steve Walker, LPC, CPht, is asset protection lead director of major crimes at Walgreens. He has been with Walgreens for twenty-three years starting as an asset protection manager and has served as director for the past eight years. Prior to Walgreens, he dedicated seventeen years to law enforcement with the Arkansas State Police.

Social Media Investigations: Targeting 101
Speaker TBA – The Heatherington Group
Attendees will learn how to discover intelligence by investigating popular social media platforms and search engines as well as gain knowledge of new social media platforms on the horizon. Attendees will learn how to open every aspect of social media to explore where key information can be hidden or overlooked. You will identify which search engine to use, when to use it, and what results you should expect from each by conducting hands-on advanced internet and social media searches. Our presenter will also evaluate and review several free and fee-based resources on the market for locating unique information and monitoring social media. Focus will be on popular platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram, among others.

Drug Diversion – Long Term Care Facility
Lauren Wolf, RN
Senior Registered Nurse Investigator
Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Division
Office of Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt

Pharmacy Fraud Trends – Collaboration among Insurance Personnel, Pharmacists and Law Enforcement
Kandyce Cowart, CFE, AHF
Manager, Special Investigations
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana

Dr. Brice Mohundro, BCACP
Manager Pharmacy Population Health
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana

Cuno Q. Andersen Jr.
Sr. Consultant – Investigations
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association FEP SIU
NADDI Vice President

Topic TBA
Julie Chaiken, Deputy Statewide Prosecutor
Florida Attorney General’s Office of Statewide Prosecutions

“Follow the Coin”
Investigations Involving Cryptocurrency & the Blockchain
Bill Callahan, Director of Government & Strategic Affairs
Blockchain Intelligence Group
US DEA Special Agent in Charge (Ret)
Blockchain Intelligence Group, a Gold Sponsor of the 2021 NADDIS 32nd Annual Conference, will provide an overview of the basics about cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology behind it.  Led by BIG’s Director of Government & Strategic Affairs William Callahan, will discuss how drug traffickers and drug money launderers utilize bitcoin for their illicit activities and how Diversion Investigators can combat using software to disrupt and dismantle these drug trafficking criminal organizations.

Friday, October 7th

Overdose Death Investigations
Corporal Amy Owens
Gainesville Police Department
Instructor Advanced Police Concepts

General Session end at Noon