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July 28, 2024 • Forensic Medicine Section
Section Updates & Accomplishments from Chair Dr. Judith Linden: Educational Offerings, Section Meeting at ACEP24 and Upcoming Section Election--Now Accepting Nominations to Join our Leadership Team!
March 15, 2024 • Forensic Medicine Section
Dr. Dan Field, a veteran emergency physician, forensic medicine expert witness, and the CMO of MDstaffers, delivered a presentation on "Becoming a Forensic Medicine Expert Witness."
December 4, 2023 • Forensic Medicine Section
This document was prepared by Dr. William Green and Attorney Gerald Fineman to serve as a written version of the presentation that was originally given on August 1, 2023 to the Forensic Section of the...
September 18, 2023 • Forensic Medicine Section
Since the first production of this handbook in 1999, the American College of Emergency Physicians created the Forensic Medicine Section. One of the goals of the section was to revise and update this h...
August 29, 2023 • Forensic Medicine Section
Strangulation is a common and potentially lethal form of interpersonal violence. Only about half of strangled patients will have visible neck injuries. Documenting neck injury in these patients influe...
December 19, 2022 • Forensic Medicine Section
Welcome from the Forensic Medicine Section Chair, Dr. Judith Linden.
April 28, 2021 • Forensic Medicine Section
Welcome from the Forensic Medicine Section Chair, Dr. Sally Henin.
Dr. Miya Smith The information for the section meeting for ACEP2021 will be announced at a later date. Please do not forget to join the ACEP Forensic Medicine Section Facebook group if you haven’t a...
Dr. Monika Pitzele interviews the Cook County Chief Medical Examiner (ME), Dr. Ponni Arunkumar.
Interview with Dr. Chamé Blackburn an Emergency Physician at Whakatane Hospital in New Zealand.
Dr. Riveillo, Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Health San Antonio shares insight on his career path.
April 28, 2020
Welcome to all of our new Members!
This year we are holding elections for section officers at our meeting. We encourage you to nominate yourself or someone else for a leadership position.
In the last year I have been honored to become a member representing the Dignity Health’s Sacramento area hospitals in the Sacramento County Child Death Review Team (CDRT).
With sheltering in place implemented and schools, daycare centers and workplaces closed, it appears there is another unexpected consequence of the current pandemic- increased reports of child physical...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, I want to first start by thanking each and every one of you for the sacrifices you are making to care for patients everywhere.
September 18, 2018
Get to know Dr. Daniel M. Lindberg, MD.
On August 10, 2018 a bill regarding improving the care of sexual assault survivors in Illinois was signed into law. House Bill 5245 was initiated by IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan, passed in the Ill...
Given the popularity of mixed martial arts and other combative grappling arts such as judo and jujitsu where chokeholds are used to submit opponents, it is incumbent upon us as leading physicians to e...
September 20, 2017
Dr. Linden is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, and the Vice Chair for education in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
September 18, 2017
Dr. Ralph Riviello, past president of the Forensic Section was invited by Wolf Media to offer his expertise in strangulation for a documentary that is being produced for the Smithsonian Television Sta...
Over the past 2 years, ACEP has partnered with the Office for Violence Against Women (OVW), Office for Victims’ of Crime (OVC), and the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) on two impor...
An interview with former District of Columbia Forensic Nurse Examiners Director, Heather DeVore, MD.
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