Forensic and anatomic pathology with more than 10 years of experience, this expert focuses on medicolegal death investigation, forensic autopsies, postmortem examinations, and deputy coroner services. Their forensic pathology experience includes approximately 3,000 autopsies involving drug-related fatalities, domestic violence deaths, elderly fatalities, opioid-related mortality investigations, and tissue recovery referral matters. Additional areas of practice include forensic pathology evaluations associated with coroner investigations, postmortem toxicology analysis, and cause-and-manner-of-death determinations related to medicolegal investigations. Credentials include board certification in Anatomic Pathology and Forensic Pathology through the American Board of Pathology, along with medical licensure. Educational background includes a medical degree, pathology residency training, and fellowship training in forensic pathology. Professional organization involvement includes participation in the National Association of Medical Examiners, including committee work involving standards inspection and accreditation, forensic pathology fellowship training, maintenance of certification initiatives, strategic planning, organ and tissue procurement, international relations, and forensic pathology professional development.

Professional experience includes appointments as Deputy Coroner and Forensic Pathologist within multiple county coroner offices, along with academic involvement in biomedical education, anatomy instruction, pathology education, and forensic pathology fellowship training. The expert previously directed a forensic pathology fellowship program and participated in accreditation, standards inspection, quality assurance, and forensic pathology training initiatives associated with medicolegal operations and pathology education. Their work also includes mortality and morbidity conference participation, domestic violence fatality review activities, opioid fatality data review, organ and tissue procurement coordination, and statewide medical examiner and coroner data improvement projects.

The expert has prior expert witness experience and has presented nationally on subjects involving forensic pathology, domestic violence fatalities, postmortem toxicology, heroin-related fatalities, patient safety, and forensic pathology quality practices. Additional experience includes community education and professional presentations involving medical certification of death, elder mortality concerns, substance-related fatalities, and forensic pathology perspectives relating to public health and safety issues.