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 Michael Baden,
MD, is one of the world's
most respected forensic pathologists. He has conducted more than 20,000
autopsies in his 40-year career and is regularly called upon to participate as
investigator and expert witness in high-profile murder cases -- including
JonBenet Ramsey, Nicole Brown Simpson and Sunny von Bulow. Baden has served on
the Congressional Select Committee on Assassinations, which conducted a reopened
investigation of the John F. Kennedy killing. He was New York City medical
examiner for 25 years and currently serves as co-director of the Medicolegal
Investigative Unit of the New York State Police. Baden earned a bachelor's of
science degree from City College of New York, a medical doctor degree from New
York University School of Medicine, and received post-graduate training as an
intern and resident at the first medical division, Bellevue Hospital, where he
also served as chief resident of pathology. He has received numerous honors and
is widely published on the subjects of drug and alcohol abuse, addiction and
mortality. Baden is the author of Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical
Examiner and Dead Reckoning and is host of Autopsy on HBO.
 Mary Dudley,
MD, BSN, MSN, RN, received her diploma in nursing from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, a bachelor of science in nursing degree from Metropolitan University, Denver, and a master of science in nursing degree from the University of Colorado in Denver. She worked as a medical examiner and forensic pathologist for five years at the Maricopa County Medical Examiners Office in Phoenix. For the last three years she has been employed as the director of the Forensic Science Center, chief medical examiner and district coroner for Sedgwick County in Wichita. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and a member of the National Association of Medical Examiners, the International Association of Forensic Nurses, ABMDI and D-MORT/NDMS. She has published seven books for her four-day forensic medical examination courses that she currently teaches four times a year in Kansas and Arizona.
 Rita Hammer,
PhD, RN, CS, received her
master's degree from New York University and her doctorate in nursing from
Adelphi University. She's a certified clinical nurse specialist in adult
nursing. After a clinical career in pediatric and geriatric nursing, she entered
nursing education. She has been a nurse educator for almost 30 years and has
taught in associate, baccalaureate and master's degree programs. Formerly, she
was the chairperson of the department of nursing and the academic coordinator of
the master's program in forensic nursing at Quinnipiac University. Currently,
she is an adjunct faculty in the forensic program online division. Hammer has a
strong interest in the issues of the elderly, particularly in the area of elder
abuse. During her tenure as a nurse educator, she maintained her clinical
practice skills with the elder population in various healthcare settings. She
has authored and co-authored several articles, presented at many conferences and
is currently co-editing a textbook in forensic nursing.
 Neal Haskell,
PhD, holds a bachelor’s degree in entomology, a master’s degree and a doctorate in forensic entomology from Purdue University. Haskell is an assistant professor of forensic science and biology at Saint Joseph’s College and also is a private international forensic entomology consultant to hundreds of law enforcement agencies. He is a board certified entomologist and is a diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Entomology. Over the past 15 years, he has assisted in more than 500 cases, which have had questions regarding insects. He has appeared as an expert in more than 60 trials, many of which were capital murder cases.
 Max M. Houck is the director of the Forensic
Science Initiative, a multi-million dollar program that develops research and
professional training for forensic scientists and related professionals. He is a
trace evidence expert and forensic anthropologist who was assigned to the Trace
Evidence Unit at the FBI Laboratory from 1992 to 2001. While there, he worked
more than 800 cases. He assisted with the examination and identification of the
victims of the 9/11/01 Pentagon attack. Houck was the recipient of a Quality
Award in 1999 from the FBI Laboratory and the American Society of Testing and
Materials Forensic Science Award in 2000. Prior to the FBI, Houck was the
forensic anthropologist and a trace-evidence examiner at the Medical Examiner's
Office in Fort Worth, Texas, where he coordinated the anthropological recovery
and scientific examinations of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. He
has co-authored and edited a book of forensic case reviews, Mute Witnesses, and
his latest book, Trace Evidence: More Cases from Mute Witnesses, will be out
this fall.  Patricia Iyer,
RN, MSN, LNCC,
has coauthored or edited several books written for attorneys and legal nurse
consultants. She earned her masters degree in nursing from the University of
Pennsylvania and is certified as a legal nurse consultant through the American
Association of Legal Nurse Consulting. She is the immediate past president of
the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. She is the president of Med
League Support Services, Inc. located in Flemington, N. J. Med League assists
attorneys who handle cases that involve medical issues. Services are provided
for criminal, matrimonial, personal injury, employment, products liability,
medical, nursing and nursing home malpractice cases. In addition, she testifies
as a liability expert and as an expert fact witness on the pain and suffering
experienced by plaintiffs as documented in the medical records, and as a
liability witness. She is a speaker on documentation, nursing liability,
testifying techniques, and medical errors  Stuart
James of James and Associates Consultants Inc. is a graduate of
Hobart College, where he received a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry.
He received his MT (ASCP) in medical technology from St. Mary's Hospital in
Texas. He has completed more than 300 hours of continuing education and training
in death investigation and bloodstain pattern interpretation. He is a former
director of a crime laboratory in Binghampton, N.Y., and he has been a private
consultant since 1981. He has instructed forensic sciences at the state
University of New York and Broome Community College in Binghampton, N.Y. He has
also lectured on bloodstain pattern interpretation and forensic science
throughout the U.S. and abroad.  Barbara Moynihan,
PhD, APRN, MSN, is the coordinator of the master's degree in nursing,
forensic nursing track at Quinnipiac College where she coordinates the didactic
and clinical experiences of graduate students in the forensic track and teaches
several of the forensic courses. She received her bachelor's degree in science
in 1977, her master's degree in counseling in 1981 and a master's degree in
nursing in1994 from Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Conn.
She earned her doctorate degree from the University of Connecticut in 1992.
Moynihan is a clinical specialist in adult mental health and psychiatric nursing
as well as an APRN with prescriptive authority. She has a private practice in
psychotherapy, is a certified law enforcement instructor, is involved in the
education of the students enrolled in the New Haven Police Academy, was the head
nurse in the emergency department at Yale New Haven Hospital for 10 years.
 Bobbi Jo O'Neal,
RN, BSN, F-ABMDI,
received her bachelor's degree in nursing from Belmont University in Nashville,
Tenn. in 1993 and is currently pursuing her master's degree in nursing. Her
initial practice areas included oncology and hospice. She accepted a position as
a staff nurse in the emergency room at Charleston Memorial Hospital to gain
forensic experience. After completing her SANE training, she became the
coordinator for the Sexual Assault Team for the Medical University of South
Carolina. For the past five years, she has been deputy coroner at the Charleston
County Coroner's Office. She recently was awarded status with the American Board
of Medicolegal Death Investigators.  Georgia A.
Pasqualone, MSN, MSFS, RN, CEN, DABFN has been a critical care and
emergency department nurse for more than 30 years. She is self-employed as a
forensic nurse consultant, investigator and lecturer and employed as a clinical
nurse specialist in the emergency department, Winchester Hospital, Winchester,
Mass. She has been a lieutenant colonel in the Army Nurse Corps for more than 20
years, active and reserve. She received her bachelor's degree in nursing from
Boston University and her master's degree in forensic nursing from Fitchburg
State College. She also received a master's degree in forensic science from the
University of New Haven, having studied with Dr. Henry Lee. She is a certified
emergency nurse, a legal nurse consultant, crime scene investigator and a
professional photographer with specialty training in forensic photography. She
has served as a forensic nurse liaison and consultant for the Police Department
in Waltham, Mass.
 Bruce T. Sackman graduated from Long
Island University with a master's degree in government administration in 1975.
He served as a special agent with the U.S. Department of Defense from 1975 to
1979. Since, he has served as a special agent with the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs, Office of the Inspector. While at the Department of Veteran
Affairs, he rose through the ranks to his current position of special agent in
charge of the Northeast Field Office, a title he has held since 1996.As the
special agent in charge, he is responsible for criminal investigations involving
VA programs from West Virginia to Maine. Specifically, he has been involved in
the investigation of numerous suspicious death cases at VA medical centers
including the investigation of three serial killers. Sackman has a total of 29
years of government service.
 Advocate Debbie Smith was born in
Norfolk, Va., and has been a resident of Williamsburg, Va. since 1975. She has
been married to a police detective lieutenant for 31 years and has raised two
children. She recently resigned from her office manager job in order to help
promote the bill before congress bearing her name. She became a rape survivor in
March 1989. She has been traveling nationwide as a speaker in forums that
benefit DNA research, rape victims or any other aspect of this nature. Debbie
and her husband, Rob, have recently founded a non-profit organization that will
assist rape victims. This organization is called H-E-A-R-T Inc. She has appeared
on several TV shows such as Oprah, 60 Minutes and John Walsh, in several
magazines including People, Time, Self, Glamour and in numerous other media, all
with the purpose of promoting the use of DNA, aiding victims and helping the
public to better understand victims.  Lieutenant
Robert Smith ("Smitty") is a 25-year veteran of the Williamsburg, Va.
Police Department. He is currently assigned as the supervisor of the
investigative bureau, public information officer, as well as controller of all
property and evidence. During his career, he worked uniform patrol, crime
prevention, supervisor of a uniform squad, supervised tactical and narcotic
units, and has been used as a spokesperson for the department, speaking to
various groups. He has been actively involved, first as a support person for
Debbie Smith as she travels and speaks on the subject of her rape and then has
become more involved as a co-speaker with her, touching on the effects of the
rape from a husband's point of view and the perspective of a police officer on
the receiving end of a crime. He currently serves on the board of directors for
the Williamsburg-area SANE program, the Virginia Peninsula Alcohol Safety Action
program and on AVALON, a safe house program for abused women.
 Charles Wetli,
MD, currently is the
chief medical examiner in the division of medical-legal investigations and
forensic sciences in the Sidney B. Weinberg Center for Forensic Sciences in
Suffolk County, N.Y. Wetli is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the
St. Louis University School of Medicine. After serving in the U.S. Army for
three years, he joined the Dade County Medical Examiner's Office and served as
deputy chief from 1980 to 1995. He was then appointed chief medical examiner for
Suffolk County, N.Y. Over the years, Wetli has published more than 85 scientific
articles and is recognized for his expertise on the effects of cocaine abuse,
particularly with sudden death in police custody. His office was responsible for
the autopsies and identification of the victims of the TWA Flight 800 disaster,
and scientifically identified all 230 victims, a first in civil aviation
investigations.
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