Course Director Meredithe Mendelsohn, MPA Administrator, Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center
Check up on the technique of all the crime scene investigators popping up on television by learning from the real experts in forensic medicine.
Oct. 9: Heather Pringle, a science journalist and author of “The Mummy Congress,” an examination of the long and bizarre history of human obsession with the preserved dead
Oct. 16: Jessica Snyder, a science journalist and author of “Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death,” an exploration of the means by which pathologists measure the interval between death and a body’s discovery
Oct. 23: Mary Roach, author of “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,” which includes chapters on embalming, the use of the dead to test vehicles for safety, forensic pathology, donor transplants, and cremation
Oct. 30: Steven Karch, MD, assistant medical examiner for the City and County of San Francisco, is an authority on the effects of drug abuse on the heart and has published nine books on the subject of drug abuse. He lectures frequently on the investigation of drug-related deaths.
Nov. 6: Clyde Snow, PhD, a leading medical anthropologist who helped pioneer forensic law, biological anthropology, and human rights, and is the only full-time consultant in forensic anthropology in the United States
Nov. 13: Alison Galloway, PhD, D-ABFA, a forensic consultant and professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz
