Dr. Falzon is a native of Malta, a small island south of Italy. He graduated from the University of Malta, School of Medicine in 1986 and obtained a master’s degree in Anatomy from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1992. After completing a 4-year residency program in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the same institution, he did his Forensic Pathology Training at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. From 1999 to 2001 he worked as an Associate Medical Examiner with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in Atlanta, GA. In 2001 he was hired as an Assistant Medical Examiner in Middlesex County, NJ, and was later appointed County Medical Examiner for Middlesex in 2007.  In 2015 he was appointed Chief State Medical Examiner for the State of New Jersey.

His fields of interests include teenage suicides and certification of drug related deaths. He is certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic, Clinical and Forensic Pathology.  He is a Member of the American Academy of Forensic Science, Fellow of the National Association of Medical Examiners and a Member of the American Association of Suicidology.