Annual Meeting Program

2014 Annual Meeting Program Committee

The Annual Meeting Program Committee is composed of members appointed to supervise portions of the meeting program including the keynote session, workshops and seminars, luncheon sessions, poster sessions, Last Word Society, Bring Your Own Slides, Student Academy, and Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Uses of Forensic Science.

The Program Committee also consists of a "Program Chair" designated by each section who is responsible for developing and organizing that section's scientific sessions during the annual meeting.

Program Chair

Program Co-Chair

Jeri D. Ropero Miller, PhD

RTI International
3040 Cornwallis Road
Building 7, Room 211
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
(919) 485-5685
jerimiller@rti.org

Ken Williams, MS, JD

New Jersey State Police
North Regional Laboratory
1755 State Highway 46
Little Falls, NJ 07424
(973) 256-7790
lppwillc@gw.njsp.org

Plenary Session

 

Laura L. Liptai, PhD

BioMedical Forensics
1660 School Street, #103, Moraga, CA 94556
1877 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, FL 32804
(925) 376-1240
manager@biomedicalforensics.com

Susan M. Ballou, MS

NIST
Law Enforcement Standards Office
100 Bureau Drive, MS 8201
Gathersburg, MD 20899-8102
(301) 975-8750
susan.ballou@nist.gov

Keynote Session

 

Timothy M. Palmbach, JD, MS

University of New Haven
Department of Forensic Science
300 Boston Post Road
West Haven, CT 06516
(203) 932-7116
tpalmbach@newhaven.edu

Christine Funk, JD

Depaertment of Forensic Sciences
401 E Street SW
Washington, DC 20024
(202) 727-7830
christine.funk@dc.gov

Poster Sessions

 

Dean De Crisce, PhD

Coast to Coast Forensic Association
41 Schermerhorn Street, #325
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(310) 980-8715
decrisce.md@gmail.com

Claire E. Shepard, MS

Lucky 13 CSI Consultants
401 South Oak Street
Oak Ridge, LA 71264
(404) 966-3051
claire_e_shepard@yahoo.com

Workshops

 

Lucy A. Davis, BHS

LDH Consultants, LLC
2944 North Mayo Trail
Pikeville, KY 41501
(518) 258-5428
lucy.a.davis@gmail.com
 

Mark Pollitt, PhD

Daytona State College
1770 Technology BV
Daytona Beach, FL 32117
(386) 506-4172
pollitm@daytonastate.edu








Loralie J. Langman, PhD

Mayo Clinic
Hilton 730
200 1st Street, SW
Rochester, MN 55905
(507) 284-8408

Interdisciplinary Symposium

 

Matthew R. Wood, MS

Ocean County Sheriff's Department
Forensic Science Laboratory
Tom River, NJ 08753
(732) 506-5130
mwood@co.ocean.nj.us

Anjali A. Ranadive, JD

SciLawForensics, Ltd  
2345 Corinna Court
State College, PA 16803
(814) 308-9906 
scilawforensics@aol.com

Lara Frame-Newell, MA

400 E Jackson Street
Richmond, VA 23219
(804) 786-1047
lara.frame@vdh.virginia.gov

 

Breakfast Seminars

 

Philip J. Levine, DDS

6202 N 9th Avenue, Ste 1B
Pensacola, FL 32504
(850) 474-0001
pjlevine2@cox.net


Amy C. Gruszecki, DO

American Forensics, LLC
PO Box 550846
Dallas, TX 75355 
(214) 221-2700
drg@usaforensics.com

Luncheon Sessions

 

Adam J. Freeman, DDS

22 Imperial Avenue
Westport, CT 06880 
(203) 227-3709
ajf2139@columbia.edu

 

Elias J. Kontanis, PhD

NTSB
Trans Disaster Assist
490 L'Enfant Plaza East, SW
Washington, DC 20594
(202) 314-6187
elias.kontanis@ntsb.gov

Last Word Society

 

James E. Starrs, LLM

8602 Clydesdale Road
Springfield, VA 22151
(703) 978-8509
jstarrs@aol.com

Kenneth E. Melson, JD

15610 Golf Club Drive
Montclair, VA 22025
kmelson01@aol.com

Taryn M. Mead, BS

850 Bryant Street, Bldg 606
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 671-3149
tarynmead@gmail.com

 

Bring Your Own Slides

 

Michael M. Baden, MD

15 West 53rd Street
Apartment 18 B-C
New York, NY 10019
(212) 397-2732
kenneybaden@msn.com

 

Lindsey E. Saunders, BS

100 I Street SE
Apt. 718
Washington, DC 20003
(586) 524-9836
lec385@gmail.com

Randy L. Hanzlick, MD

Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office
430 Pryor Street, SW
Atlanta, GA 30312
(404) 613-4407
randy.hanzlick@fultoncountyga.gov

Student Academy

 

Julie A. Howe, MBA

Saint Louis University
Franklin, Jefferson & St. Charles M.E. Office 
College of Health Sciences, 3084
3437 Caroline
St. Louis, MO 63104
(314) 977-8707
howej@slu.edu

 

Lauren R. Pharr, MA

Louisiana State University
Department of Geography & Anthropology
227 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
(901) 378-5232
Lpharr1@tigers.lsu.edu 

Suzanne Bell, PhD

West Virginia University
1600 University Avenue
Oglebay Hall, Rm 208
Morgantown, WV 26506-6121
(304) 293-8606
suzanne.bell@mail.wvu.edu

  

Local Arrangements

 

James Tarver, MS

Washington State Patrol
Crime Laboratory Division
2203 Airport Way South, Suite 250
Seattle, WA 98134
(206) 262-6050
james.tarver@wsp.wa.gov

 

Criminalistics

 

John J. Lentini, BA

Scientific Fire Analysis, LLC
88005 Overseas Highway, #10-134
Islamorada, FL 33036
(770) 815-6392
scientific.fire@yahoo.com

 

Karolyn L. Tontarski, MS

IntelliForensics, LLC
2107 N Decatur Road, Suite 361
Decatur, GA 30033
(240) 401-0839
4n6evidence@gmail.com

Digital & Multimedia Sciences

 

Marla E. Carroll, BS

Forensic Video & Audio Associates
6919 West Broward Boulevard, Suite 222
Plantation, FL 33317
(954) 594-6243
Marla@FVAAInc.com

 

Peter R. Stephenson, PhD

158 Harmon Drive
Room 221B, Dewey Hall
Northfield, VT 05663
(802) 485-2007
pstephen@norwich.edu

Engineering Sciences

 

Michelle R. Hoffman, MS

3720 E La Salle Street
Phoenix, AZ 85040
(602) 414-9962
michelle@biodynamics-eng.com


General

 

David J. Zeliff, MFS

102 Glacier Way
Stafford, VA 22554
(571) 305-4013
zeliffdavid@msn.com

 

Steven C. Clark, PhD

124 Elm Street
Big Rapids, MI 49307
(231) 796-2822
sclark@orainc.com

 

Jurisprudence

 

Pamela A.W. King, JD

400 South Broadway, Suite 15
Rochester, MN 55904
(507) 206-2906

 

Donald E. Shelton, JD, PhD

101 E Huron, PO Box 8645
Ann Arbor, MI 48107
(734) 222-3399
sheltond@ewashtenaw.org

Odontology

 

Raymond G. Miller, DDS

122 Covington Road
Buffalo, NY 14216
(716) 683-7666
rgmiller@buffalo.edu

 

Pathology/Biology

 

Kathy H. Haden-Pinneri, MD

Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences
1885 Old Spanish Trail
Houston, TX 77054
(713) 796-6933
kathy.haden-pinneri@ifs.hctx.net

 
 

Physical Anthropology

 

Erin H. Kimmerle, PhD

University of South Florida
Department of Anthropology
4202 E Fowler, Soc 107
Tampa, FL 33820
(813) 974-5139
kimmerle@usf.edu

Gregory E. Berg, PhD

JPAC-Central ID Laboratory
310 Worchester Avenue
Hickam AFB, HI 96853-5530
(808) 448-1760
greg.berg@jpac.pacom.mil

Psychiatry & Behavioral Science

 

Eugene Lee, MD

118 W Spring Street
Fayetteville, AR 72701
(479) 310-0658

Lauren Reba-Harrelson, PhD

WCGRH
3000 Schatulga Road
Columbus, GA 31907
(919) 923-2119
leharrelson@dhr.state.ga.us 

Questioned Documents

 

Andrew T. Szymanski, BS

Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory
580 West 7th Street
Cheney, WA99004
(509) 626-5412
andy.szymanski@wsp.wa.gov

 

Toxicology

 

Sarah Kerrigan, PhD

Sam Houston State University Box 2525
Department of Forensic Science
Chemistry and Forensic Science Building, 221A
1003 Bowers Blvd
Huntsville, TX 77341
(936) 294-4286
sxk003@shsu.edu

Rebecca A. Jufer, PhD

State of Maryland
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
900 W Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21223
(410) 333-3241
rphipps@phipps.ws

  

AAFS MISSION

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences is a multi-disciplinary professional organization that provides leadership to advance science and its application to the legal system. The objectives of the Academy are to promote professionalism, integrity, competency, education, foster research, improve practice, and encourage collaboration in the forensic sciences. 

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