Gates Healthcare Associates is a pioneer in the area of pharmaceutical compounding, and firm principal Ernest Gates, Jr. is one of the world´s leading authorities on the subject, having invented the lozenge mold, a tool used by pharmacists across the world to make drug compounds. Gates Healthcare´s services include comprehensive clean room design and construction (for compounding), full compliance monitoring with USP chapters 795 and 797, operational systems improvement, drug dispensing and control systems, accreditation facilitation and implementation, and the development and delivery of training programs. Gates Healthcare can develop a compounding lab from design through licensure.