National Association of Medical Examiners

2010 NAME Annual Meeting

Monday, 09 November 2009

The 2010 Annual Meeting will be held in Cleveland, Ohio from Friday, Oct. 1 through Wed. Oct.6, 2010 at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel , 24 Public Square, Cleveland OH 44113.

The convention rate is $154./nt. for single or double accommodation. There is no concierge level available at this property.

Meeting programs will be emailed out and posted on the website June, 2010.

If you want to submit an abstract for this meeting, download the form here .

Last Updated ( Monday, 09 November 2009 )

2010 NAME Interim Meeting

Monday, 09 November 2009

2010
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS
Interim Scientific Program
Washington State Convention and Trade Center
Seattle, Washington

A separate registration fee payable to the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) is required to attend this Scientific Program. Download the interim meeting registration form here . To join or attend, contact Denise McNally, NAME Executive Director at 660-734-1891 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Global Forensic Medical Services – Learning from Each Other
Scientific Program Chairman – Dr. Thomas Noguchi

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:00 – 5:00 pm

Educational Objective: This program is designed for forensic pathologists, medical examiners, coroners, medicolegal death investigators, forensic administrators and forensic scientists. By attending this program, participants will be provided overall understanding of the global forensic medical services provided by specialists working in the different types of investigative systems. This will provide the attendees the opportunity to compare and analyze their roles in death investigations. Some countries provide specialists in legal medicine, who perform services that are not normally provided by the medical examiner and coroner.

1:00 – 1:10
Welcome
Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D.
President, National Association of Medical Examiners
Los Angeles, CA

Introduction
Thomas T. Noguchi, M.D.
Program Chairman,
Los Angeles, CA

1:10 – 2:00
Coroner’s Tradition and its Modifications
Coroner’s Tradition and Current Developments in the United Kingdom
Richard Shepherd, MBBS, DMJ, UK
Current Practices in Death Investigation in Australia
Dianne Little, MBBS, Australia
Current Developments in Death Investigation in Canada
John Fernandes, MD, CM, Canada
Current Development in Death Investigation in Singapore
Paul Chui, MBBS, DMJ, Singapore

2:00 – 2:30
Continental Europe
The Continental European Tradition of Legal Medicine
Giancarlo Di Vella, M.D., Italy
The German Tradition of Legal Medicine with Emphasis on Research
PD Heike Klotzbach, Germany

2:30 – 3:00
Asian Scene
The Japanese Tradition and Recent Developments in Legal Medicine
Kenichi Yoshida, M.D., Ph.D., Japan
Overview of Forensic Medicine in the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan
Zhongxue Hua, M.D., New Jersey

3:00 - 3:30
Coffee Break

3:30 – 4:00
Middle Eastern Countries
Current Status of the Practice of Legal Medicine in Turkey
Nevzat Alkan, M.D., Turkey
Legal Medicine in the Middle Eastern Countries
Jeffrey Jentzen, M.D., Michigan

4:00 - 4:30
Mexico and South America
Current Practice and New Developments in Death Investigation in Mexico
Mario Alva-Rodriguez, M.D., Mexico
Current Development in Legal Medicine and Forensic Pathology in Peru
Hugo Castro, M.D, Peru

4:30 – 4:50
Question and Answer

4:50 – 5:00
Summation

CME Statement for Jointly Sponsored Activities

Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of Saint Louis University School of Medicine and the National Association of Medical Examiners. Saint Louis University School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide CME for physicians.

American Medical Association
Saint Louis University designated this educational activity for a maximum of 3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Validation of Content
Saint Louis University School of Medicine follows the ACCME policy on Validation of Content for CME activities, which requires that:

All recommendations involving clinical medicine must be based on evidence that is accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the area of patients.
All scientific research referred to, reported or used in CME in support or justification of a patient care recommendation must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis.

Disclosure Policy
It is the policy of Saint Louis School of Medicine to insure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in its continuing medical education program. Faculty and planning committee members participating in these activities are required to disclose to the audiences prior to the activity the following:

The existence of any significant financial or other relationship with the manufacturer of any commercial product or provider of any commercial services discussed.
Their intention to discuss a product that is not labeled for the use under discussion.
Their intention to discuss preliminary research data.

Saint Louis University School of Medicine will review this activity’s disclosure and resolve all identified conflicts of interest, if applicable.

Continuing Education Administrative Fee
There is an administrative charge of ($75 pre-registration, $85 at the door registration) for persons wishing to receive this credit. It will be necessary for you to complete a program evaluation as well as pay the administrative fee to receive CME credit for this meeting.

Last Updated ( Monday, 09 November 2009 )

Welcome to the National Association of Medical Examiners Web Site

Saturday, 12 June 2004
This is the web site of the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME). The National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) is the national professional organization of physician medical examiners, medical death investigators and death investigation system administrators who perform the official duties of the medicolegal investigation of deaths of public interest in the United States. NAME was founded in 1966 with the dual purposes of fostering the professional growth of physician death investigators and disseminating the professional and technical information vital to the continuing improvement of the medical investigation of violent, suspicious and unusual deaths. Growing from a small nucleus of concerned physicians, NAME has expanded its scope to include physician medical examiners and coroners, medical death investigators and medicolegal system administrators from throughout the United States and other countries. NAME headquarters is located at 430 Pryor Street SW, Atlanta, GA 30312 and the phone number is 404-730-4781. Denise McNally is the Executive Director of NAME and her contact information is found here.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 August 2008 )

NAME Publications

Thursday, 09 November 2006

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.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 October 2009 )