Multidisciplinary Medico-Legal Death Investigation

Role of Consultants

1st Edition - May 31, 2018
Editors: Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, Christopher B. Rogers
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:
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Multidisciplinary Medico-legal Death Investigation: Role of Consultants is the only book in the field that focuses on the role consultants have in medical examiner/coroner offices. The book provides a multidisciplinary view on the topic by including specialized fields, such as anesthesiology, surgery, radiology, including CT scan, pediatrics, cardiology-electrophysiology, cardiac pathology, forensic anthropology and odontology, firearms examination, firearms, eye pathology and psychiatry/psychology. Coverage also includes chapters on specialized topics, including high profile cases, the media, business continuity planning, envenomations, the importance of quality assurance and peer review, and quality assurance in a medico-legal death investigation office.

This one-of-a-kind resource is ideal for those in the medico-legal death investigation field and professionals in the criminal and civil justice system.

Introduction

Dedication

Role of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Consultant

Noel G. Boyle, M.D., Ph.D., FACC, FRCPI, FRCP

Christopher Rogers, M.D., M.B.A.

Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D., FRCP(C), FACP, FCAP

Pediatric Consultation: Value of a Clinical Perspective

Carol Berkowitz, M.D., FAAP

Role of the Consultant in Forensic Radiology

Donald Boger, M.D.

Odey Ukpo, M.D., M.S.

The Role of Virtual Autopsy and Use of a CT Scanner in Medico-Legal Death Investigations

Odey Ukpo, M.D., M.S.

Donald Boger, M.D.

Anesthesiology Consults at the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office

Selma Harrison Calmes, M.D.

Coroner’s Surgical Consultation: Q rdr H TO

Denis Astarita, M.D., FACS

Psychological Autopsy: Consultative Tool for Suicide Determination

Linda E. Weinberger, Ph.D.

Timothy Botello, M.D., M.P.H.

Bruce H. Gross, Ph.D., J.D., M.B.A

Role of the Cardiac Pathologist in Evaluating Sudden Natural Deaths

Michael C. Fishbein, M.D.

Gregory Fishbein, M.D.

Julie Huss-Bawab, M.D.

Role of the Forensic Odontologist in a Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office

Karen DePaoli, D.D.S.

Cathy Law, D.D.S., ABFO

Stephen M. Lojeski, D.D.S., ABFO

Forensic Anthropology

Elizabeth Miller, Ph.D.

The Value of Eye Pathology Consults in Pediatric Medico-Legal Death Investigation

James Ribe, M.D., J.D.

Firearms—Special Topics

Mark A. Fajardo, M.D.

The Medical Examiner-Coroner and the Firearms Examiner

James Carroll, M.S.

Envenomations

Lisa Scheinin, M.D.

High Profile Cases—the Los Angeles Experience

Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D., FRCP (C), FACP, FCAP
Christopher Rogers, M.D.

Craig Harvey B.S., F-ABMDI

Edward Winter, B.A.

Quality Assurance and Peer Review

William Anderson, M.D.

Thomas Noguchi, M.D.

Quality Assurance in the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office

Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D., FRCP(C), FACP, FCAP

Christopher Rogers, M.D., M.B.A.

Business Continuity Planning for the Medical Examiner

Christopher Rogers, M.D., M.B.A.

Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, M.D., FRCP(C), FACP, FCAP

Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran

Dr. Sathyavagiswaran is a medical graduate from Stanley Medical College, Madras University, India. He is a 30 plus year veteran of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, and was appointed as Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner (CME-C) for Los Angeles County on February 18 1992 by the Board of Supervisors, who also appointed him to the position of Director in 2012 and he retired from his position in 2013. He is a Board Certified Physician in several specialties including Anatomic, Clinical & Forensic Pathology, Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He is also certified in pathology by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. As a peace officer, he holds a specialized law enforcement executive certificate from the Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training, State of California. Dr. Sathyavagiswaran is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pathology at Keck School of Medicine USC and has numerous publications to his credit.

Affiliations and expertise

Consultant in Infectious Diseases/Forensic Pathology/Medicine, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Keck School of Medicine USC, USA; Clinical Professor (Volunteer) Pathology

Christopher B. Rogers

Dr. Christopher Rogers received his MD degree from the University of California, San Diego. He did pathology residency at LAC and USC Medical Center, and forensic pathology fellowship at Los Angeles County Coroner. He is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology, and in forensic pathology. He has worked at Los Angeles County Coroner since 1988, and has been the chief of forensic medicine since 1992. He was acting chief medical examiner-coroner to Los Angeles County from January 19, 2017, through July 09, 2017. He also holds an MS degree from California Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from California State University in Los Angeles. He has numerous publications to his credit.

Affiliations and expertise

Chief of Forensic Medicine, Former Acting Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner Clinical Professor of Pathology at Keck School of Medicine USC