2018 Handouts

SESSION 1: ANCHORS AWAY

1.1 Fatal Drug Overdoses Involving Carfentanil: A Series Of 430 Cases at the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner Office, 2016-2018
Michael D. Bell, MD, Palm Beach County Medical Examiner Office, West Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America

1.2 Spleen Blood as an Alternative Specimen to Peripheral Blood for Postmortem Toxicological Analysis
*Ashley Leigh Lukefahr, MD, The University of Arizona - Tucson, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

1.3 Forensic Toxicological Analysis of Deaths Due to Drug Overdose A Descriptive Retrospective Study  of 1100 autopsies Performed at The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office from January 1st to December 31st, 2017
***Dhammi Luwis Hewa, MD Forensic Medicine, Office of the Medical Examiner, County of Cook, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America 

1.4 Protocol for "Real-Time" Surveillance of Drug Overdose Deaths in King County, Washington
***Nicole Yarid, MD, King County Medical Examiner's Office, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

1.5 An Empirical Look at Drugs Detected in Non-Autopsied, Presumed Natural Deaths
****Richard Seeber, II, BS, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

1.6 Characteristics of Rapid Overdose Deaths, State Unintentional Overdose Reporting System, July 2016-June 2017
Mbabazi Kariisa, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCIPC/DUIP, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

1.8 Discerning Drug Mortality Patterns in a Large Database of Toxicology Results
Carl J. Schmidt, MD, MPH, University of Michigan / Wayne County Medical Examiner, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

SESSION 2: HANG 10 WITH PUBLIC HEALTH

2.1 National Association of Medical Examiners Position Paper: Recommendations for the Investigation and Certification of Deaths in People with Epilepsy
Elizabeth A Bundock, MD PhD, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

2.2 Correctly Identifying Deaths due to Drug Toxicity without a Forensic Autopsy
Daniel W. Dye, MD, UAB; Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner Office, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

2.3 Death Certification Errors and the Effect on Mortality Statistics
**Lauri McGivern, MPH, F-ABMDI, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

2.5 Evaluation of Autopsy Findings, Investigative Information and the Determination of Betahydroxybutyrate (BHB) Concentrations in Certifying Deaths from Cold Exposure
*Michael D Eckhardt, MD, Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

2.6 Suicidal Carbon Monoxide Poisoning by Formic and Sulfuric Acid
****Kasey Kreutz, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

2.7 Death in a Carbon Dioxide Therapy Bath
*Julian Samuel, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai St. Luke's-Mount Sinai West, New York, New York, United States of America

SESSION 3: SURFIN' UP MORE AWARDS PRESENTATIONS

3.1 Best Practices for Talking about Suicide with Media and Families
Daniel J. Reidenberg, Psy.D., Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, Bloomington, Minnesota, United States of America

3.2 Utility of a Handheld Blood Ketone Meter as a Postmortem Indicator of Diabetic Ketoacidosis
****Richard Seeber, II, BS, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

3.3 Application of the Drowning Index to Opioid and Multidrug Intoxication Deaths: A Retrospective Analysis
****Madeleine P. Opsahl, BA, and Lindsey T. Ellis, BS, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

3.9 Bound and Burned in Detroit
*Sarah Avedschmidt, M.D., University of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

SESSION 4: GRAINS OF KNOWLEDGE

4.1 If You Want to Save Lives, Start with the Dead: Epidemiologists and Medicolegal Death Investigators Unite to Stop Suicide Using Novel Surveillance Methodology
***Kimberly K. Repp, PhD, MPH, Washington County, Aloha, Oregon, United States of America

4.2 Interface Astroglial Scarring, a Pattern of Brain Damage in Blast-Exposed Service Members with Prominent Persistent Behavioral/Neurologic Symptomatology, Including Suicide
Daniel P. Perl, MD, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

4.3 In Good Hands? Death of a Child due to Intentional Immersion in Hot Water and the Resulting Complications
*Julia D. Berry, MD, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

4.5 Melatonin Detection in Pediatric Deaths
**Laura M. Labay, PhD, NMS Labs, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, United States of America

4.6 Novel Illicit Opioid Proliferation in Postmortem Investigations: 2017-Q1 2018 Experience
Barry K Logan, PhD, NMS Labs, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, United States of America

SESSION 5: NAVIGATING THE WATERS

5.1 Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations Legislative Update
Matthew Gamette, MS, Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations, Meridian, Idaho, United States of America

5.3 Medicolegal Consulting/Private Practice Forensics Workshop
Judy Melinek, MD, PathologyExpert Inc., San Francisco, California, United States of America

SESSION 6: FORENSIC LIFE PRESERVERS

6.3 Navigating the J1 Visa Process: A Canadian's Perspective
Anita Rajkumar, MD, Dane County Medical Examiner's Office, McFarland, Wisconsin, United States of America

6.5 2018 Medicolegal Death Investigation Salary Survey
William R. Oliver, MD, Regional Forensic Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

6.6 Hosting International Forensic Pathology Scholars
Richard C. Harruff, MD, PhD, King County Medical Examiner's Office, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

6.8 After SIDS, SUID, or Undetermined: A Diagnostic Service for Parents and Medical Examiners Wanting to Know More
Richard D Goldstein, MD, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

SESSION 8: MORE HEARTS FILLED WITH SUNSHINE…AND DNA

8.1 Pathologic Correlation with Autopsy-Defined Sudden Arrhythmic Death in the San Francisco Postmortem Systematic InvesTigation of Sudden Cardiac Death (POST SCD) Study
Ellen Moffatt, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

8.2 DNA Extraction from Diverse Post-Mortem Samples
Gregory Webster, MD, MPH, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

8.3 Post-mortem Genetic and Polygenic Profiling to Inform Risk to Living Relatives
Ali Torkamani, PhD, Scripps Translational Science Institute, La Jollca, California, United States of America

8.4 The Vital Role of Medical Examiners and Autopsy Data in Trauma System Development (handouts are linked to each speaker's name)
Gregory A. Schmunk, MD, Polk County Medical Examiner's Office, Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America, Thomas T. Noguchi, MD, Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Edward L. Mazuchowski, MD, PhD, San Antonio Military Medical Center, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, United States of America, Brian J. Eastridge, MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, and Susan K. Schmunk, CAISS, CSTR, MedPartners, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

SESSION 9: IT'S 5'O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE

9.1 Enhancing Opioid Overdose Surveillance in States
Christine L. Mattson, PhD, MS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

SESSION 10: A WHALE OF A TOPIC: MASS DISASTER PREPAREDNESS 

10.2 Direct and In-direct Disaster Related Deaths
Kathryn Pinneri, MD, Montgomery County Forensic Services, Conroe, Texas, United States of America

SESSION 11: SMALL FISH IN A BIG OCEAN 

11.1 Sudden Death from Head Trauma in Video-recorded Pediatric Short Fall: Subdural Hematoma, Retinal Hemorrhages, and Traumatic Brain Injury
Jane W. Turner, MD, PhD, Virchow Consulting Services, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

11.2 Classification of Pediatric Suicides
Andrew L. Falzon, MD, New Jersey Office of the State Medical Examiner, Trenton, New Jersey, United States of America

11.3 Critical Value Reporting: The Need To Develop Appropriate Communication Channels
Ken Obenson, MBBS, Saint John Regional Hospital - Horizon Health Network, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

11.4 It Walks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck But It’s a Horse: The Process of Second Opinion Expert Consultation, Independent Diagnosis of an Unusual Presentation of Rare Disease Process, and Truth-seeking by Experts in an Adversarial System
Evan Matshes, MD, National Autopsy Assay Group, San Diego, California, United States of America and Jonathan L. Arden, MD, Arden Forensics, PC, McLean, VA, United States of America

SESSION 12: MISCELLANEOUS PEARLS

12.1 A River Runs Through It: Bridge Jumpers in Spokane County, Washington
Sally S. Aiken, MD, Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office, Spokane, Washington, United States of America

12.2 Implementing Autopsy Recommendations from the Sudden Death in the Young (SDY) Case Registry
Heather MacLeod, MS, SDY Case Registry Data Coordinating Center, Elmhurst, Illinois, United States of America

12.3 Unraveling a Triple Homicide Dismemberment
Jennifer L. Hammers, DO, Cyril H. Wecht & Pathology Associates, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

12.5 Preventing Consumer Product-Related Deaths: The Vital Role of Medical Examiners
Yolanda Nash, BA, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

12.6 Equine Fatalities: Classifying Mechanisms of Injury and Use of Occult Hoof/Impact Pattern to Assist In Injury Classification.
Kendall Von Crowns, MD, Travis County Meducal Examinaers Office, Austin, Texas, United States of America

12.8 Rehydrating Desiccated Hands in less than 24 Hours: A Comparison of Two Methods
Christian G. Torres, MS, Regional Medical Examiner Office, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America