Dan was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA and graduated from Temple University, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology. In 2013, Dan completed an Executive Master’s Degree in Public Health: Emergency and Disaster Management from Tel Aviv University in Israel. In 2016, Dan was hired as a Public Health Analyst for the Philadelphia-Camden High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) to improve situational awareness and collaboration between law enforcement and public health agencies in the region as part of the National Heroin Response Strategy.

Dan was also contracted in 2016 by the Delaware Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health to be their point person for the HERO HELP Program (a law enforcement diversion program); to author the grant for the Delaware Drug Monitoring Initiative; and, to be a member of the Delaware delegation at the National Governor’s Association Learning Lab in Washington D.C. In 2018, Dan was hired as the full-time HERO HELP Program Coordinator for the New Castle County Police Department. In this role, Dan implements innovative approaches to coordinate the provision of addiction/mental health assistance and legal advocacy to Delawareans in an effort to mitigate the damage of the addiction epidemic.

Dan is proud to have participated as a panelist at Addressing Delaware’s Opioid Crisis with U.S. Senator Chris Coons and Director James Carroll, Head of U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy; and, as a presenter and panelist for US Attorney’s Office Opioids 2019: Facilitating Cooperation and Communication to address the crisis. In 2019, atTAcK addiction recognized Dan with the Courage Award for demonstrating outstanding courage in leading others in the war against substance use disorder.

Dan is happily married to the love of his life.