Nationally-known expert in death investigation will speak at 2012 IACME Fall Meeting

Mary Fran Ernst, a nationally-known expert in the field of death investigation, will be the headline speaker at the IACME Fall Meeting and Education Expo Friday and Saturday, November 2-3, 2012 at the Sheraton West Des Moines. 
   Ms. Ernst is an associate professor of pathology and director of medicolegal education at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. She has published numerous articles and chapters on medico-legal death investigation and co-authored the textbook "The Medicolegal Death Investigation." Over the past 36 years, she has made more than 500 presentations at local, state, national and international conferences. 
   The title of Ms. Ernst's presentation will be "Are You Sure It's a Natural Death?" According to Ms. Ernst, medicolegal death investigators often encounter death scenes that are complex in regard to scene evidence, body marks, injuries, location and position. Her presentation will methodically review death scenes where masquerades have occurred. 
   Ms. Ernst was president of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators in 2003 and was president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in 2001. In 2011, she created the Society of Medicolegal Death Investigators, Inc., a professional organization for medico legal death investigators from medical examiner and coroner offices. She served on a committee that developed National Guidelines for Death Investigation.
   Remember that 2012 IACME dues must be paid by April 1 in order to receive the member discount when registering for the 2012 IACME Fall Meeting and Education Expo.

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