EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND: SCHOOL YEAR ATTENDED
Webb
School of California 1963-67
UCLA 1968
Chaffey JC 1968-69
University
of Southern California 69-75 (BS, DDS)
Licensed
to practice dentistry in the States of California and Arizona
Maintains a private practice in General Dentistry 1975-present
Consultant - Forensic Dentistry since 1980
Chief Forensic Odontologist, County of San
Bernardino, 1993 - present
SOCIETIES
& AFFILIATIONS:
American
Dental Association
California Dental Association
Tri-County Dental Society
Inland Implant Study Club
American Society of Forensic Odontology
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
American Board of Forensic Odontology
West End Sexual Assault Investigators '88-'96
California Society of Forensic Dentistry
California Sexual Assault Investigators Association '94
Southern California Laser Study Group '93-'97
The International Police Association, US
Region 44 - '05
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
& PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
Instructor,
Loma Linda University School of Dentistry
Instructor,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
---Bexar County Forensic Science Center
Instructor,
International Forensic Photography Workshop, Miami, FL
---Metro-Dade County Medical Examiner
Instructor, Practicum in Forensic Odontology, Miami, FL
Co-Director,
California Dental Association Mass Disaster Identification Team
Chief Forensic Odontologist, San Bernardino County, CA
Special Deputy Coroner, San Bernardino County, CA
Consultant, Riverside County Sheriff's/Coroner Dept.
Consultant, Los Angeles Department of Coroner
Consultant, Orange County Coroner's Department
Fellow, American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Diplomate, American Board of Forensic Odontology
Co-Director, California Dental Identification Team
COURT TESTIMONY:
Grand
Jury: Clark County, NV
Superior Courts of:
San Bernardino County, CA
Riverside County, CA
Los Angeles County, CA
Orange County, CA
Santa Barbara County, CA
Kern County, CA
Tulare County, CA
Plaquemines Parish, LA
Pine County, NV
Lorain County, OH
Lee County, FL
San Diego, CA
Municipal Courts:
San
Bernardino County, CA
Los Angeles County, CA
Juvenile Court:
San Bernardino County, CA
OFFICES & POSITIONS
HELD:
TRI-COUNTY
DENTAL SOCIETY:
Chairman: Disaster
Management Team '81-'86
Panel Captain: Peer Review Committee '82-'94
Member, Peer Review Committee '82-present
AMERICAN
BOARD OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY
Director: '88-'94,
'99-'04, 2008-2010
Nominating Committee, '90-'91,'05
Ethics Committee, '93-'95
Bite Mark Research Committee '93-'97
Bite Mark Evidence & Patterned Injuries Committee '98 - '04
Missing & Unidentified Persons Committee '99 - '06
Civil Litigation Committee '02 - '07
Credentialling
and Examination Committee '04-'09
Chairman, Digital Guidelines Committee '05
- '08-
Chairman, Slide Series Committee '08 - '09
AMERICAN
ACADEMY OF FORENSIC SCIENCES:
Program Chairman-Odontology
Section, '85-'86
Secretary-Odontolgy Section, '87-'88
Chairman-Odontology Section, '89-'90
Nominating Committee, '87-'90
Council, '87-'90
By-Laws Committee, '96-'04
Academy Program Co-Chairman, 2000-'01
FORENSIC
SCIENCES FOUNDATION:
Trustee, '96-'99
Chairman, Publications Committee, 2006
COMMENDATIONS:
Meritorious
Service Award, San Bernardino County Sheriff, '93
Certificates of Appreciation, Office of the Attorney General,
Dept. of Justice, State of California, '96, '98, '99
Special Appreciation & Commendation, Office of County Medical
Examiner, New York, NY, for assistance in WTC identification process,
2001, New York State Congress - assistance at the WTC after 9/11/01
Evidence Photographers International Congress
California Southern District International Association for Identification
California District Attorneys Association
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners
SELECTED
LECTURES & FORENSIC COURSES GIVEN:
Cal
State University San Bernardino, '81 - "Forensic Sciences
Legal and Investigative Techniques"
Loma Linda University School of Dentistry, '82-'98 - "Forensic
Dentistry", 11-week selective course
San Bernardino County Coroner's Academy, '85
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office, '80-present
Child Abuse & Neglect Team, Riverside & LLU Hospital,
'84-'00
Child Protection Team, San Antonio Community Hospital, '82-'90
Western Nurse Specialists Inc., (SART/SANE) '91-'08
Inland Empire Sexual Assault Investigators, '92-'93, '95
California Association of Criminalists, '90
International Association of Identification, '93, 95, '06
California Sexual Assault Investigators Association, '94
Loma Linda University, "Oral Medicine Symposium", '94
International Association of Forensic Nurses, - University of
Louisville School of Medicine, School of Nursing, '95
University of Texas Health Science Center, - "Southwest Symposium
on Forensic Dentistry", '96, "Advanced Forensic Photography
Symposium", '02, '08
International Forensic Photography Workshop - Metro-Dade County
Medical Examiner, Miami, FL, '96 -'00
Current Events and Future Directions in Forensic Science: A Multidisciplinary
Presentation by Members and Guests of the AAFS
Forensic Nurse Examiners of St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond, VA,
- "Forensic Update III", '98
"Sexual Assault and Bite Mark Examination", Missouri
Dept. of Health, - University of Missouri, Columbia, '98
"Forensic Dentistry, Applications to Forensic Nursing",
- American Forensic Nursing Symposium, '99
"Forensic Dentistry, an Overview", 38th California Congress
of the National Association of Dental Laboratories, Santa Clara,
CA, '99
"Advanced Techniques in Forensic Photography", - International
Association of Forensic Scientists, '99
"Update in Forensic Dentistry", High Desert Study Club,
- Ronald Moss Memorial Invitational Series Symposium, '00
"Forensic Update, Crimes Close to Home", - Tri-County
Dental Society Continuing Education, '01,'05
"Practicum in Forensic Odontology", - Metro-Dade County
Medical Examiner's Dept, Miami, FL. '02, '07
"Advance Homicide Detective's Training - San Bernardino Sheriff's
Academy, '02 - present
"Advanced Photographic Techniques", Evidence Photograpers
International Congress annual symposium, San Diego, CA, '03
"The
Role of Forensic Dentistry (along with DNA and Fingerprints) in
the Identification of Unknown Individuals" Academy of General
Dentistry, Annual Meeting, 2004
"Bitemark
Basics: What CSI Isn't Telling Us", Death Takes a Holiday
in the Valley of the Stars, Sponsored by the California Society
of Forensic Dentistry, Oct. ''04
"Fundamentals of Forensic Odontology" - Loma Linda Univesity
School of Dentistry '82- present
"Role of DNA in Forensic Dentistry"
International Police Association, May. '05
"Forensic Dental Evidence" - Calif. District Attorneys
Association, April, '06
"Practical Applications of Forensic Dentistry" - CSDIAI,
May '06, '08
PUBLICATIONS:
"Investigating
the Handcuff Injury-A Case Study", - Presented at the 1984
annual meeting of the American Academy of
Forensic Sciences, (AAFS)
"Air Crash
Fragmentation & Incineration: I.D. with a Twist", - AAFS
annual meeting, 1987
"The Freeway Killer-A Little More Than Just Gridlock",
- AAFS annual Meeting, 1989
Forensic Sciences Foundation Career Brochure, - Chapter on Forensic
Odontology
"Disaster
Preparedness for Dental Offices", - Publication of the Tri-County
Dental Society
"Complications
Encountered in Fluorescent Photography", - AAFS annual meeting,
1994
"Use
of Alternate Light Source Illumination In Bite Mark Photography",
- Journal of Forensic Science, Vol. 39, No. 3, May, 1994
"Forensic
Photography", Forensic
Dentistry : Stimson, P.G. & Mertz,
Chapter 6, C.A., CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL, 1997
"Forensic
Photography: an Expanding Technology", - Journal of the California
Dental Association, May, 1996
"Bite
Mark Photography: What You See Ain't Always What You Get",
- AAFS annual meeting, 1996
"New
Technology In The Courtroom", - ASFO annual meeting, 1997
"A
Double Bite Anomaly", - AAFS annual meeting, 1997
"George Furst Inaugural Bite Mark Workshop", - AAFS
annual meeting, 1998,
"Bite Mark Evidence in a Rape/Homicide", - AAFS annual
meeting, 1999
"George
Furst annual Bite Mark Workshop II", - AAFS annual meeting
1999
"Bite
Mark Analysis in Mauling Death of Child: A Case Study" -
AAFS annual meeting, 2003
"Advanced
Techniques in Bite Mark Photography"
- Chapter 7, Bitemark Analysis, Dorion, R., Oct. 2004,
Marcel Dekker Publications, NY
"Forensic
Odontology and Elder Abuse - A Case Study",
Journal of the California Dental Association, Vol.32.
No.4.,April 2004, "BIOTERRORISM &
FORENSICS"
Winner: 2005 WPA Maggie
Award, Winner: International College of Dentists Journalism awards
Competition
"Bite
Mark Injuries" -Chapter
16, Forensic Nursing, Lynch, V. A., Elsevier Mosby, 2005
"Advanced
Photographic Techniques", - Chapter in Medicolegal
Investigation of Death, Fourth
Edition, Spitz & Fisher, Charles C. Thomas, Publisher,
Springfield, Illinois, 2005
"Bite
Mark Photography: Seeing Things Differently, Digitally", AAFS
annual meeting 2007
"Technological Aides in Forensic
Odontology" Chapter 6, Manual
of Forensic Odontology, 4th Edition.,
a publication of the American Society of Forensic Odontology
'Technological
Advances in Forensic Photography" 2008 AAFS Annual Thomas
Krauss Bitemark Breakfast Seminar, Washington, D.C., 2/22/08
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