National Association of Medical Examiners

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.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 August 2006 )

2008 Annual NAME Meeting

Monday, 20 August 2007

Seelbach Hilton Hotel

The 2008 NAME annual meeting will be held in Louisville, KY from FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 THROUGH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. The meeting will be held at the Seelbach Hilton Hotel in downtown Louisville. The hotel rates will be $155./nt for a single or double room. Dr. Tracey Corey is the Program Chair and already working on the program and optional events.

The reason that the meeting is MUCH earlier in 2008 is because Louisville gears up for horseracing by mid-September and booked solid until late October. This happens EVERY year.

The theme of the 2008 NAME annual meeting is NAME That State! Regional Variation in Case Types Presenting to ME Offices. The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 1, 2008. You can download the 2008 NAME Abstract Submission form here .

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of the 2008 Annual meeting, please click HERE.

If you are interested in becoming an exhibitor at the 2008 Annual meeting, please click HERE.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 07 May 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 ( Thursday, 15 November 2007 )

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