Training and Experience

  • Experience

    Forensic Medicine and Pathology Consultant (November 2019 to present) ForensicPathExpert.com (Los Angeles, CA)

    Chief Medical Examiner (November 2013 - October 2019) Department of the Medical Examiner, City and County of Honolulu (Honolulu, HI)

    Assistant Medical Examiner (August 2011- August 2013) Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)

    Staff Forensic Pathologist IV (October 2010- July 2011) Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office (Perris, CA)

    Chief Medical Examiner (August 2008 - April 2010) Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office (Milwaukee, WI)

    Assistant Medical Examiner (August 2005 - July 2008) Santa Clara County Medical Examiner- Coroner’s Office (San Jose, CA)

    City Medical Examiner II (July 2003 - June 2004) Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York (New York, NY)

    Per Diem Forensic Pathologist (July 2000 - June 2002) Office of the Medical Investigator (Albuquerque, NM

  • Education

    Forensic Cardiac and Neuropathology Fellow (July 2004 - June 2005) Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York (New York, NY)

    Forensic Pathology Fellow (July 2002 - June 2003) Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York (New York, NY)

    Anatomic Pathology Resident (July 1998 - June 2002) University of New Mexico Medical Sciences Center (Albuquerque, NM)

    Anatomic Pathology Resident (July 1997 – June 1998) University of Massachusetts Medical Center (Worcester, MA)

    Doctor of Medicine (May 1997) Saint Louis University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO)

    Bachelor of Arts in Biology (1993) Rhode Island College (Providence, RI)

  • Academic Appointments

    Associate Professor of Pathology (January 2014 – October 2019) John A. Burns School of Medicine (Honolulu, HI)

    Assistant Clinical Professor of Pathology (June 2009 – April 2010) Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI)

    Assistant Professor of Forensic Sciences (September 2008 – April 2010) University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI)

    Clinical Instructor (July 2003 - June 2005) New York University School of Medicine (New York, NY)

  • Professional Activities

    Executive Member, State of Hawaii Child Death Review Committee (December 2014 – October 2019)

    Legacy of Life – Organ Procurement Organization Advisory Board Member (April 2015 – October 2019) Honolulu, HI

    Chairman, Milwaukee County Child Death Review Committee (August 2008 – April 2010)

    Executive Member, Santa Clara County Child Death Review Committee (August 2005 - July 2008)

    School of Forensic Sciences Advisory Board Member, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (June 2009 – April 2010)

    ACGME Forensic Pathology Fellowship Training Program Director, Medical College of Wisconsin and Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office (August 2008 – April 2010)

    Wisconsin Organ Donor Network Advisory Board Member (November 2008 – April 2010)

  • Presentations and Research

    Atypical Keyhole Gunshot Wound to the Head: A Descriptive and Pictorial Case Report Forensic Anthropology 2019. Vol. 2, No. 3: 1–4

    Trace Evidence Potential in Postmortem Skin Microbiomes: From Death Scene to Morgue J Forensic Sci. 2019 May;64(3):791-798

    From Personalized Medicine to Personalized Justice - Assembling the Framework with Pharmacogenomics and Assessing its Applicability to the Justice System Guest Editorial in Pharmacogenomics, June 2010

    Child Death Review and Infant Unsafe Sleep Environment- related Deaths, Local Data Informing Local Prevention Submitted for Publication July, 2010

    Prescription Drug (Methadone) Intoxication – A case report of an infant fatality with toxicologic and pharmacogenomic findings Presentation at the American Society of Clinical Pathologists annual meeting (July 2009)

    Deaths Related to the August 2003 Blackout in New York City Presentation at Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York Grand Rounds (October 2004)

    The Role of Novel Volume Expanders in the Resuscitation of Hemorrhagic Shock and its Effect on Hepatic Function and Flow Presentation at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Missouri Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (July 1995)

    In situ Hybridization of Satellite DNA on the Nuclear Matrix in Synchronized Madin-Darby Bovine Kidney Cells Research Thesis submitted for General Education and Biology Honors, Rhode Island College (May 1993)

  • Professional Organization Memberships

    National Association of Medical Examiner’s, Fellow (2009 – Present)

    Hawaii Society of Pathologists (2013 – Present)

  • Board Certifications

    Certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Forensic Pathology, September 2003

  • Medical Licenses

    State of California, Current

    State of Hawaii, Inactive

    State of Wisconsin, Inactive

    State of New York, Inactive

    State of New Mexico, Inactive