Med-legal Death Investigation

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This course provides an overview of forensic and medicolegal issues as they relate to the investigation of an individual’s death. Content includes how deaths are investigated in the United States, postmortem changes, common injury patterns and findings, cause and manner of death, special types of death investigations, and working with families. Dr. Lunn is a medical investigator and criminologist in the Denver metro area with extensive experience in the investigation of violent and high profile deaths having been an invited speaker at local, state and national trainings. In service to the profession, Dr. Lunn is the former Vice President of the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators, a committee member for the National Association of Medical Examiners, and a committee member for a NIJ scientific working group.