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NAME 2025 Annual Meeting - Click Here for More Info

Registration is NOW OPEN for NAME 2025! Join us in-person or online, October 17-21, 2025, at the Louisville Marriott Downtown in Louisville, KY.  Click the link above to learn more and REGISTER TODAY!

About NAME

The NAME is the premier professional organization for medical examiners, forensic pathologists, and medicolegal affiliates and administrators.  Since its founding in 1966 NAME has been committed to:

• Providing leadership and advocacy for best practices and excellence in forensic pathology and death investigation;
• Developing and promulgating forensic autopsy standards;
• Offering and promoting accreditation of medicolegal death investigation systems in the United States and internationally;
• Providing education to its members and stakeholders;
• Promoting research and advancing knowledge;
• Ensuring access to ethical, objective and impartial services, including testimony, to all stakeholders;
• Representing medicolegal death investigation and its practicing professionals to the public and the government;
• Enhancing public health through thorough and accurate death investigation and certification; and
• Treating decedents and their survivors with dignity and respect.

NAME's vision is accomplished through leadership, education, collaboration, advocacy, outreach, publication, and research.  The NAME will continue to be the foremost authority promoting the highest quality forensic pathology practice and medicolegal death investigation in the world.  The application of excellence in this medical practice will enhance public health, public safety and the administration of justice.

The National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) unequivocally denounces and publicly condemns all forms of racism, injustice, and discrimination. As forensic pathologists and death investigation professionals, we are steadfast in our commitment to the betterment of humanity, with respect for all people regardless of race, gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, belief system, place of origin, or socioeconomic status.

NAME affirms its dedication to the ongoing work required to cultivate an organization where people of different backgrounds, identities, abilities, and perspectives are not only welcomed, but acknowledged, respected, and valued. NAME strives to create a culture in which physical and psychological safety is prioritized and where every voice is heard and every opinion respected. This serves to advance public health, promote health equity, and ensure high-standard quality medicolegal death investigations for the communities we serve.

Summary of the Smith v. Arizona Decision

• SMITH Brief Summary
• Executive Summary – Smith v. Arizona, Docket No. 22-889602 U.S. ___ (2024), June 21, 2024

The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology is the official publication of the National Association of Medical Examiners. ​