Executive Vice President

The National Association of Medical Examiners, the premier medicolegal death investigation organization in the United States, is pleased to announce the search for the position of Executive Vice President.  The position is the primary spokesperson and administrator for the organization reporting directly to the president.  The successful applicant will implement the strategic vision and goals of the organization and executive committee as well as support and oversee ongoing committee activities.   The Executive Vice President will identify grants and other revenue opportunities for NAME. 

We seek a highly motivated physician with organizational experience and professional skills with the ability to work in a managerial as well as political environment with advocates, media and governmental agencies.  The applicant should have experience with grant writing and excellent personal skills.   This is a unique opportunity to assist a professional organization in the improvement of medicolegal death investigation on a national and international level.

We encourage all interested applicants to forward a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to the NAME office at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .  The recruitment is open. This is a part-time position with future consideration of full-time status.  The salary is negotiable.

Job Description

Title: Executive Vice President

Minimum Qualifications: Physician with medical examiner or coroner work experience.

Reporting Relationship: Reports directly to the President.  Serves at the will of the Executive Committee.  

Desirable Skills and Attributes: Ability to work with a diverse group of people at a national and international level. Experience working with government agencies and private organizations.  Strong writing, public speaking, and project management skills.  Grant writing and management experience.  Ability to promote the position(s) and goal(s) of the organization, free of personal bias or interests.  Holding a certificate of qualification for the practice of forensic pathology by the American Board of Pathology is highly desirable.

Duties, Functions, and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary media and public contact person for the organization, screening all media and public inquiries for the President, including review, along with the Executive Director, of all correspondence sent to the organization. Help coordinate, and monitor timeliness of, responses to media and public inquiries.  Provide general N.A.M.E.-related factual and educational information to the media and the public.
  

• Travel, often on short notice, to represent the organization as a spokesperson and/or observer at meetings, conferences, or hearings when deemed necessary by the President or Executive Committee.

• Help develop and be primary manager of special projects and programs at the direction of the President or Executive Committee.  Monitor and help coordinate all research activities of the organization.
  

• Search for grants and other new revenue sources deemed applicable and appropriate for the organization by the Executive Committee or the Board of Directors, and write grant applications or proposals for these grants and revenue sources for approval by the Executive Committee or the Board of Directors.  Manage all grant and grant-compliance activities.

• Coordinate and monitor the obtaining of legal opinions sought by the Executive Committee or the Board of Directors.

• Coordinate the writing of proposed contracts as requested by the Executive Committee. Monitor the compliance of all involved parties with the provisions of all active contracts.

• Support and track the activities of the various committees of the organization, including regular direct contact (quarterly, if not monthly) with the chair of each committee.  Ensures compliance of each committee with bylaws requirements to include a report to the annual and interim BOD meetings.  Assist the Chair of the Standards, Inspection, and Accreditation Committee with inspection training, identifying individuals qualified and available to serve as inspectors, and matching inspectors with offices/systems requesting inspection.

• Remain in close communication with the Executive Director, the Secretary-Treasurer, and the Finance Committee regarding known or anticipated grant, research, project, program, or committee costs and revenues. Work in concert with the Executive Director and the Secretary-Treasurer to address and manage administrative workload related to grants, research, projects, programs, and committee activities.

• Attend and/or participate in the following activities of the organization:

The Strategic Planning Committee.

The Data Committee.

All Executive Committee meetings.

All Board of Directors meetings.

Scientific sessions.

The annual business meeting.

• Supervise secretarial, administrative assistant, and/or clerical staff that may be assigned to support grants, research, projects, programs, and activities managed by the Executive Vice President.
  

• Perform other duties as assigned by the President.

The Medical Examiner/Coroner’s Guide For Contaminated Deceased Body Management

Prepared by Randy Hanzlick, MD, Kurt Nolte, MD, Joyce deJong, DO and the NAME Biological and Chemical Terrorism Committee and Bioterrorism and Infectious Disease Committee, August 2006. Approved for posting on the NAME web site by the NAME Board of Directors at its annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas, October 13, 2006.

The Medical Examiner and Coroner’s Guide for Contaminated Deceased Body Management is written specifically for the medical examiner or coroner who will be in charge of investigations of fatalities that result from terrorism or other events that result in contaminated remains. In some such cases, agents may be used that will require mitigation of environmental hazards and decontamination of human bodies. To that end, this Guide provides information and suggestions that may be useful in understanding the principles involved in decontamination procedures, recognizing that it may not be the medical examiner or coroner staff who actually conducts decontamination procedures.

Posted on this web site on 11/8/06. Download here.

So You Want To Be A Medical Detective

A medical detective can be considered a “death investigator”. There are a variety of professionals beside the police who may be involved in death investigation, including coroners, medical examiners, pathologists and forensic pathologists. This brief publication describes the different professionals involved in death investigation.

Posted on the web site on 11/9/06. Download here.