NAFEA Annual Meeting

Dear NAFEA:

The Annual Meeting Committee for 2013 in Dayton would like to clarify the process of abstract evaluation for the 2013 meeting.

1) In order to keep the meeting to less than three days there are a limited number of spots (about 30) for oral presentations.  To accommodate the most number of oral presentations while also facilitating poster presentations we will be reviewing abstracts this year to rank them for oral or poster. The review process is also intended to provide feedback to students on their abstract writing in a way to increase academic and professional development.

2) The review process is being developed but will primarily be focused on data quality and presentation to rank oral presentations. The review process will be done by a review committee of professors and other forensic professionals.  This will only happen for oral presentations for this year.

3) Thus, all abstracts will be accepted, but we will be ranking about 30 for oral presentations.  Any remaining will be invited to give a poster presentation at the meeting.

Please contact me with any questions (eric.benbow@gmail.com).

Best,
Eric

M. Eric Benbow, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Dayton
300 College Park
Dayton, OH 45469-2320
Phone: 937-229-2504
Fax: 937-229-2021

If you would like to find someone to share a room with, please leave a comment so that potential roomies can find one another.

Author of “Death, Decomposition, and Detector Dogs: From Science to Scene” – Susan Stejskal, LVT, PhD, DABT, is a board-certified toxicologist, licensed veterinary technician, and Special Deputy/Human Remains Detection (HRD) dog handler with the St. Joseph County (Michigan) Sheriff’s Department. With more than 25 years of educational and professional experience, she has for the past 10 years participated in land and water searches throughout Michigan and the central Midwest. Stejskal is founder and executive director of Recover K9, a nonprofit organization that provides financial support for much of her service and educational work. Dr. Stejskal’s work in toxicology and pathology and her experience as a dog handler led to the development of practical forensic science training for law enforcement dog handlers, detectives, and crime scene technicians. She provides this training for police agencies throughout the country.  Left: Dr. Stejskal and Buzz

Thursday, July 19, 2012
9:00am-10:00am

This panel discussion will involve NAFEA student members asking questions to forensic expert witnesses involved with entomological evidence from the Casey Anthony case that took place in Florida, USA, during 2011.

Caylee Marie Anthony (August 9, 2005 – ca. June 2008) was an American two-year-old girl who was reported missing in Orlando, Florida, in July 2008, and whose remains were found in a wooded area near her home in December 2008. Entomological evidence was extensively involved in the case.

Her then 22-year-old mother, Casey Marie Anthony, was tried for the first-degree murder of Caylee, but was acquitted. She was, however, in 2011 convicted of misdemeanor counts of providing false information to police officers.

This question and answer discussion will be based on manuscript depositions from the prosecution and defense that will be provided electronically to NAFEA members ahead of time so they can formulate their own questions. Dr. Neal Haskell was the expert forensic entomology witness for the prosecution in this case and will be representing this side and the defense expert witness will be determined

Dr. Gary G. Telgenhoff (or also known as Dr. T) is a Forensic Pathologist and Deputy Medical Examiner at the Clark County Coroner’s Office, Las Vegas, Nevada.

He began his education at Spring Harbor College where he obtained his Bachelors degree in biology and chemistry in 1979 and entered graduate school at Eastern Michigan University to obtain his Masters degree in biology/physiology in 1989.  Medical School at Michigan State University was completed in 1992, followed by internship, two years of pathology residency at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, two years of pathology residency at Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, Ohio and one year of Forensic Pathology fellowship at Montgomery County Crime Lab, Dayton, Ohio.

Currently, he is in his tenth year as Medical Examiner for Clark County, a position in which he conducts approximately 700 autopsies, with approximately 35 homicides, a year.  His presence is often required in court with regard to his findings and determination of cause and manner of death.

Dr. Telgenhoff is also a forensic consultant for the television show “CSI: Crime Scene Investigaton” and “Bones” as well as for numerous authors.  Dr. Telgenhoff speaks nationally to colleges and other venues regarding his experiences as a forensic pathologist; using science, experience and his own macabre sense of humor to bring audiences the tales of reality versus the TV show.

The title of his talk is “The Real Vegas CSI“