| Lecture Hall |
| Class is now in session! Choose from the various topics below: |
| Mass Disaster Identification This area will deal with the techniques used to identify victims of mass fatalities. Also read about the swissair flight 111 investigation. |
| Cardiovascular Disease This area will focus on cardiovascular fatalities. Topics discussed include: Brugada syndrom, Long Q-T syndrome, sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes, commotio cordis, and coronary artery disease. There are a number of papers posted in here, just added June 26th! |
| Assassination of JFK One of the most debated and discussed death in history. What really happend in Dallas November 1963? |
| Auto-erotic Deaths This area will deal with auto-erotic death, and in particular, those fatalities occuring in the female population. |
| Scene Investigation This area will focus on the problems associated with investigating death scenes. |
| Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Morgue Workers Invesigating Mass Fatalities Here is a paper I wrote discussing the problems morgue-based personel face after working on a mass disaster. The two populations studied are individuals involved with the Swissair Flight 111 crash and the Oklahoma City bombing. Very interesting topic. |
| Public Health In the US 150 kids are killed each year by fires started by cigarette lighters. Just another way smoking kills. But that doesn't even compare to the number of kids killed by guns each year. |
| Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease is the Bible of study of pathology. Click here to try the Robbins tutorial. Very fun with great photos and great case studies! |