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.

There is still time to submit an abstract for the Annual Meeting.

The 2010 NAME Annual Meeting will be October 1 – 6, 2010 in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Frank Miller will be the 2010 Annual Meeting Scientific Program Chair. A Scientific Program abstract form must be received at the Secretariat by March 1, 2010. The program theme is The Heart (of Rock n’ Roll) is in Cleveland.

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

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 March 2010 )

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 )