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8:00 AM10:05 AMEDTSession 1: Welcome, Introduction, and Mass Casuality
8:15 AM8:45 AMEDT1.1 The Advancement of Forensic Pathology: A History
8:45 AM9:30 AMEDT1.2 Mass Fatality Response in Practice: Experience, Challenges and Lessons Learned from the District of Columbia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
9:30 AM9:45 AMEDT1.3 Fatalities due to Hurricane Beryl in Texas
9:45 AM10:00 AMEDT1.4 Out of the Depths: Prompt Forensic Identification of 54 Victims After a 60-Meter Bus Plunge in Guatemala City
10:30 AM12:05 PMEDTSession 2: Skynet is Becoming Self-Aware (Artificial Intelligence)
10:30 AM10:45 AMEDT2.1 Advances in Medicolegal Death Investigation Data Modernization: Interoperability, Artificial Intelligence, Data Visualization, and Other Novel Projects
10:45 AM11:00 AMEDT2.2 Artificial Intelligence for Autopsy Report Generation: Practical Experiences and Workflow Optimization
11:00 AM11:15 AMEDT2.3 Reimagining Autopsy Documentation using Artificial Intelligence
11:15 AM11:30 AMEDT2.4 Machine Learning for the Assessment of Gunshot Wounds
11:30 AM11:45 AMEDT2.5 Artificial Intelligence and Forensics: Application of AI to the Classification of Gunshot Wounds
11:45 AM12:00 PMEDT2.6 Building a Path to Autonomous Identification: Introducing Multidimensional Forensic Intelligence (MDFI)
2:00 PM3:20 PMEDTSession 3 (Part 1): New Forensic Toys (Technology)
2:00 PM2:15 PMEDT3.1 Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (sUAS): The Innovation of Drone Technology into the Medical Examiner System of Medicolegal Death Scene Investigations, and Human/Skeletal Remains Searches and Recovery
2:15 PM2:30 PMEDT3.2 Synoptic Autopsy Reporting: A Response to the Opioid Crisis
2:30 PM2:45 PMEDT3.3 Development of a Digital Whole Slide Image Database as a Learning Tool for Forensic Histopathology
2:45 PM3:00 PMEDT3.4 Future Forensics: When Man and Machine Merge
3:00 PM3:15 PMEDT3.5 Spatial Computing in Forensic Pathology
3:45 PM5:05 PMEDTSession 3 (Part 2): New Forensic Toys (Technology)
3:45 PM4:00 PMEDT3.6 From Scalpel to Stylus: Implementing a Paperless Workflow in a Forensic Pathology Office Using iPads and Lean Process Improvement
4:00 PM4:15 PMEDT3.7 Robots, Death, and Forensic Pathology
4:15 PM4:30 PMEDT3.8 Fiberoptic Technology at Autopsy
4:30 PM4:45 PMEDT3.9 Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) as a Postmortem Blood Test for Chronic/Recent Alcohol Use
4:45 PM5:00 PMEDT3.10 Time and Distance in Death investigation: Cryptogenic cause and manner of death: two cases and a literature review
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8:00 AM9:50 AMEDTSession 4: Hey, There is a Pathologist Shortage (Workforce)
8:00 AM8:15 AMEDT4.1 A Practical Approach to the Utilization of Forensic Pathologists’ Assistants at the DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office
8:15 AM8:30 AMEDT4.2 A Tale of Incompetency
8:30 AM8:45 AMEDT4.3 Strengths and Challenges in Autopsy Training for Pathology Residents: A Survey of Forensic Pathology Fellows – Follow up to a Survey of Autopsy Directors
8:45 AM9:00 AMEDT4.4 Addressing the Forensic Pathology Shortage in the United States: Empowering International Forensic Pathologists to Bridge the Gap - A perspective from the NAME Visa Applicant Advisory Committee
9:00 AM9:15 AMEDT4.5 Forensic Pathology for the Ages: Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office's Approach to Introducing Forensics from Grade School to Grandparents
9:15 AM9:30 AMEDT4.6 Educational Outreach in Forensic Pathology: A Framework for Strategic Social Media Use and Policy Development in ME/C Offices
9:30 AM9:45 AMEDT4.7 Enhancing Public Understanding: The Establishment of a Public Education Specialist Position at DeKalb County's Medical Examiner's Office
10:15 AM12:05 PMEDTSession 5: Carceral Conundrums
10:15 AM11:00 AMEDT5.1 Prison 101: Conversation with a Correctional Medicine Physician on Deaths in Carceral Facilities
11:00 AM11:15 AMEDT5.2 An Evolving Novel Synthetic Opioid Drug Market with Impacts on Medicolegal Death Investigations and Forensic Toxicology Interpretation
11:15 AM11:30 AMEDT5.3 Truth, Trauma, and the Death Certificate: Overdose Deaths, Postconviction Amendments, and Implications for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and Indian Country
11:30 AM11:45 AMEDT5.4 Can 4-ANPP Concentrations Differentiate Illicit from Licit Fentanyl?
11:45 AM12:00 PMEDT5.5 Manner of Death in Obscure and Baffling Medico-Legal Autopsies in Jamaica: A Review of Cases
1:30 PM3:05 PMEDTSession 6: PPP, Part 1 (Pregnancy, PEDS and Placenta)
1:30 PM2:00 PMEDT6.1 Certification of Pediatric Deaths
2:00 PM2:30 PMEDT6.2 Autopsy of the Pregnant Woman: A Protocol for Postmortem Pregnancy Testing and the Pitfalls of Jurisprudence
2:30 PM2:45 PMEDT6.3 Placental and Neuropathologic Correlations in Perinatal Forensic Autopsies
2:45 PM3:00 PMEDT6.4 Amniotic fluid embolism: A diagnosis in need of a mechanism
3:30 PM5:35 PMEDTSession 7: Prenatal, PEDS and Public Health, Part 2
3:30 PM4:00 PMEDT7.1 Pediatric Neuropathology in Forensic Autopsy
4:00 PM4:15 PMEDT7.2 Manner of Death and Ethical Dilemmas in Perinatal Pediatric Deaths
4:15 PM4:30 PMEDT7.3 Interagency Collaboration, Medicolegal Investigation, and Postmortem Genetic Testing in the Evaluation of Suspicious Pediatric Deaths
4:30 PM4:45 PMEDT7.4 Are Non-natural Deaths Underreported? A Preliminary Comparison of Non-natural Deaths in Coroner Counties, Medical Examiner Counties, and Coroner Counties with a State Medical Examiner.
4:45 PM5:00 PMEDT7.5 Improving Community Health through Drug Overdose Dashboards: Insights from STORM and TRUST
5:00 PM5:15 PMEDT7.6 Are We At The End of the Opioid Epidemic? A Challenging Public Health Question
5:15 PM5:30 PMEDT7.7 Legionnaires’ Disease and SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Disease Outbreaks at Two Illinois Veteran's Nursing Homes: The Public Health and Medicolegal Implications for Death Investigation
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8:00 AM12:00 PMEDTNAME Business Meeting
1:30 PM3:35 PMEDTSession 8: I'm from the Government and I'm Here to Help
1:30 PM1:45 PMEDT8.1 NIJ and BJA Initiatives to Support the MDI Community
1:45 PM2:00 PMEDT8.2 Innovation Meets Investigation: Elevating Medicolegal Death Investigation Through the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Forensics Training and Technical Assistance Program
2:00 PM2:15 PMEDT8.3 The Medical Examiner Improvement in Oregon Workgroup
2:15 PM2:30 PMEDT8.4 American Femicide as a Function of Gun Ownership: A Comparison of Two States
2:30 PM2:45 PMEDT8.5 Dead Wrong: Is Flawed Case Screening Masking the Next Public Health Crisis?
2:45 PM3:00 PMEDT8.6 The SUDC Registry and Research Collaborative: Lessons learned, Future opportunities
3:00 PM3:15 PMEDT8.7 Interactive Discussion of Cases with Challenging Manners of Death
3:15 PM3:30 PMEDT8.8 New Technology Applied to Timeless Principles: The Nexus Between Crime Scene Analysis and Autopsy Findings
4:00 PM5:35 PMEDTSession 9: You Can't Handle the Truth (Legal)
4:00 PM4:15 PMEDT9.1 Eight-Year Review of the Swift Toxicology of Opioid-Related Mortalities (STORM) Project
4:15 PM4:30 PMEDT9.2 We Can Work It Out: A Lawyer’s Proposal to the Problems Associated with Forensic Conclusions of Cause and Manner of Death
4:30 PM4:45 PMEDT9.3 Doing Time: Expert Witness Testimony
4:45 PM5:00 PMEDT9.4 Electronic Death Certificate Workflows and the Busy Forensic Pathologist: A Thought Experiment
5:00 PM5:15 PMEDT9.5 Self-Monitoring Your Practice: The Forensic Pathology Journey
5:15 PM5:30 PMEDT9.6 Causes of Death with Undetermined Manners
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11:15 AM11:30 AMEDT11.5 Human Spaceflight: Unique Considerations for Medicolegal Death Investigations
8:00 AM9:50 AMEDTSession 10: X Never, Ever Marks the Spot (Anthropology)
8:00 AM8:15 AMEDT10.1 Biomechanical Analysis of Hyoid Bone Fractures in Fresh Cadaveric Specimens
8:15 AM8:30 AMEDT10.2 Seeing Eye to Eye? Comparing Forensic Pathologist and Radiologist Interpretations of Cervical Spine Injuries on Postmortem CT
8:30 AM8:45 AMEDT10.3 That Cranium is Strange Looking: Human Variation, Congenital Development, and Scavenging of Human and Hyprophalic Calf Craniums
8:45 AM9:00 AMEDT10.4 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Dismemberment Cases: Integrating Forensic and Anthropology
9:00 AM9:15 AMEDT10.5 Body and the Beast: Investigating Animal-Related Trauma through Postmortem Imaging
9:15 AM9:30 AMEDT10.6 Reassessing Forensic Significance through Radiocarbon Dating: A Cautionary Tale from the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
9:30 AM9:45 AMEDT10.7 Digging into Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy: Transforming the Identification of Unidentified Human Remains
10:15 AM11:50 AMEDTSession 11: Cadaverous Cornicopia
10:15 AM10:30 AMEDT11.1 Systematized International Capacity Development for Forensic Pathology in Low-Resource Jurisdictions: A Proposed Model
10:30 AM10:45 AMEDT11.2 A Bloody Surprise: Case Report of Fibrinous Pericarditis in a Patient with Elevated Vitreous Urea Nitrogen (VUN)
10:45 AM11:00 AMEDT11.3 Victims of the Volcano: A Survey of Fatalities in Mount Rainier National Park that Challenge Medicolegal Death Investigation and Death Certification
11:00 AM11:15 AMEDT11.4 Recommendations to Combat Gender Identity Erasure: A Two-Center Pilot Study to Support a Gender Diverse Vital Records System
11:30 AM11:45 AMEDT11.6 The Smoking Gun: a Potentially Significant Contributor to Evidence of Close-Range Firing
2:00 PM3:20 PMEDTSession 12 (Part 1): The Spice Must Flow (TOX)
2:00 PM2:15 PMEDT12.1 Cases Comparisons of Blood, Vitreous Fluid, and Urine (Where Available): Update: Drug Screen Findings in Over 200 Cases
2:15 PM2:30 PMEDT12.2 Novel Autopsy Method for the Rapid Detection of Calcium Oxalate Crystals in Two Cases of Ethylene Glycol Poisoning: Scrape Smear may be a More Sensitive Method Compared to Kidney Histology.
2:30 PM2:45 PMEDT12.3 The Utility of UV/IR Photography in Identification of Hidden Elements to Aid in Identification and Investigation
2:45 PM3:00 PMEDT12.4 Synthetic Cannabinoid Prevalence in Prison Deaths
3:00 PM3:15 PMEDT12.5 The Role of Autopsy in Alcohol Use Disorder: A Retrospective Review
3:30 PM4:35 PMEDTSession 12 (Part 2): The Spice Must Flow (TOX)
3:30 PM3:45 PMEDT12.6 Postmortem Formation of Ethanol in Vitreous Fluid
3:45 PM4:00 PMEDT12.7 Sodium Azide: Death and Risk in 700mg
4:00 PM4:15 PMEDT12.8 Utilizing In-Suite Immunoassay Screening as a Triage Tool for Autopsy Caseload Management
4:15 PM4:30 PMEDT12.9 “Tranq-Dope,” “Benzo-Dope,” and Modern Speedballs: Adulteration of the Illicit Fentanyl Supply Complicates Postmortem Investigations
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