The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia DVI for Radiographers (Pre-congress workshop for ISFRI 2018)A Mass Disaster is defined by the fact that local resources can’t cope with the number of injured and deceased people. Therefore, having a team of Forensic Radiographers (FRRT) trained to be deployed to assist with imaging of the deceased would prevent local […]
Melborne, Australia
Lindsay Batty-Smith, PgDip. Welfare Officer, IAFR This webinar explores possible effects radiographers may experience when repeatedly exposed pain and tragedy in the course of our work and highlight the increasing need for radiographers to be aware of how the stress of their work may affect them, be it on a conscious or unconscious level. The […]
Dr. Steve Naidoo, Independent Forensic Pathologist, Durban, South Africa Formerly Prof. of Forensic Medicine, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu Natal In this paper, originally presented at the African Society of Forensic Medicine, Dr. Naidoo will discuss the nature and impact of trauma accompanying an alcohol-intoxicated fall. The presentation will describe the nature […]
Leopold Hotel, Sheffield Program The Role of the HM Coroner (Dr James Adeley) Grenfell Tower disaster (Dr Alison Brough) Post-mortem CT in children: New Horizons (Dr Amaka Offiah) Paediatric Forensic Radiography- The Radiographers Role (Elzene Kruger) Lessons learned Previous Deployment (Phillip Webster) Making a difference: Excellence in radiography and suspected physical abuse (Dr Kath Halliday) […]
Dr. Steve Naidoo, Independent Forensic Pathologist, Durban, South Africa In this presentation Dr. Naidoo looks at a series of cases he experienced at autopsies where the nature and pattern of the traumatic basal skull fracture was of particular interest in the reconstruction of the case scenario in court, which led him to delve deeper into the […]
Dr. Tomoya Kobayashi, Chief, Department of Radiological Technology at Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital; Member of Postmortem Imaging Committee, Japan Association of Radiological Technologists; Director of the Japan Society of Autopsy imaging. The number of postmortem imaging (PMI) examinations has been rapidly increasing in Japan. Reasons include the extremely low rate of only 1% for conventional autopsies, and number […]
Technical Aspects of Imaging in Medico-Legal Death Investigation / Setting up an imaging service with the police Jeroen Kroll, Forensic Radiology consultant, Unit Forensic Radiology at Maastricht University Medical Center, Chair IAFR In the Netherlands, forensic radiology is used as an independent medical forensic examination during the early stages of a forensic investigation. The leader […]
Roland Wessling - Roland has a BSc in Archaeological Sciences and an MSc in Forensic Archaeology. He has worked as a consultant for the UN ICTY, on domestic criminal cases in Germany/UK and has been deployed to Cyprus and Iraq for the Inforce Foundation. He was one of the Lead Archaeologists of the excavation of 250 WWI […]
An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology Dr. Nick Marquez-Grant - Senior Lecturer in Forensic Anthropology at Cranfield Forensic Institute, Cranfield University. What do bones tell us and what is the role of the forensic anthropologist? The involvement of forensic anthropologists in crime scene investigation, mass disasters and human rights’ abuses has increased in recent years. This […]
Registration is now open for IAFR Webinar #10 on Wednesday 24th April at 18:00 (BST). The topic of this webinar will be the Imaging of Archaeological & Mummified Remains and will be delivered by Prof. Jerry Conlogue, Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT who has over fifty years experience in applying medical imaging techniques to non-medical areas, such as […]
