Dana Way started her career working in a laboratory in 1989. While working as a Chemist for Commonwealth Laboratories and later for Roche Analytics Laboratories, she learned analysis and reporting, laboratory methods and procedures, method development, and worked with a variety of analysis instruments. In 2000 Dana Way started a company called Mira-Stat Corporation, a pharmaceutical development firm specializing in FDA controlled products. Dana also started work as an independent consultant for FDA controlled substances, poisons, toxic metals, and DNA. Her career path took a decidedly different turn, when a close friend died mysteriously. Dana was convinced her friend had been poisoned, but the Medical Examiner could not find the proof and the evidence went undetected. This incident propelled Dana on a journey of studying forensic science and she eventually started a company called 3rd Degree Investigations in 2005. Since then her work as a defense expert has sent her across the country where she has testified in both state and federal criminal and civil courtrooms. Additionally Dana has acted as a consultant for federal and state law enforcement agencies. Dana Way's pinnacle opportunity was to work on a contractual basis as the Chief Association Officer for the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute, the American Psychotherapy Association, and the American Association of Integrative Medicine in Springfield, Missouri. Here she assisted with developing new programs and training courses. Dana now resides in Oxford, North Carolina and continues her work on behalf of the accused.