Published and forthcoming titles in the Forensic Science in Focus series

Published

The Global Practice of Forensic Science

Douglas H. Ubelaker (Editor)

Forensic Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications

Jay A. Siegel (Editor)

Forensic Microbiology

David O. Carter, Jeffrey K. Tomberlin, M. Eric Benbow and Jessica L. Metcalf (Editors)

Forensic Anthropology: Theoretical Framework and Scientific Basis

Clifford Boyd and Donna Boyd (Editors)

The Future of Forensic Science

Daniel A. Martell (Editor)

Forthcoming

Forensic Anthropology and the U. S. Judicial System

Laura C. Fulginiti, Alison Galloway and Kristen Hartnett‐McCann (Editors)

Forensic Science and Humanitarian Action: Interacting with the Dead and the Living

Roberto C. Parra, Sara C. Zapico and Douglas H. Ubelaker (Editors)

Humanitarian Forensics and Human Identification

Paul Emanovsky and Shuala M. Drawdy (Editors)

Bob Barsley, has been continually licensed in Louisiana to practice dentistry since 1977 and to practice law since 1987. He is a tenured Professor at LSU where he has been full‐time faculty since 1882. He is a fellow of the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists, the Pierre Fauchard Academy, and the Odontology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He has also served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Congressional Health Policy Fellow in the office of Senator John Breaux. He is a past president, past Speaker of the House, and a past secretary/treasurer of the Louisiana Dental Association. He is the immediate past Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents in Washington, DC.

Dr. Barsley has also served as Acting State Dental Director of the Louisiana Office of Public Health and as the Chief Compliance Office for the LSU Health Sciences Center. He has held numerous officers in various forensic organizations and is a past president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, past Treasurer of the Forensic Science Foundation, and is a past president of the American Board of Forensic Odontology and of the American Society of Forensic Odontology. He has been a member of the Journal of Forensic Sciences Editorial Board for many years and is a frequent guest reviewer for the Journal of the American Dental Association and the Journal of Dental Education. He was named by NIST to chair the Odontology Subcommittee of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees under the auspices of the Forensic Sciences Standards Board. He served as the magistrate judge for the Ponchatoula City Court for nine years.

Thomas L. Bohan, Ph.D., J.D., holds his physics PhD from the University of Illinois‐Urbana/Champagne and his law degree from the University of New Hampshire School of Law. He has authored books and peer‐reviewed papers in the scientific and legal professional literature. Reflecting his interest in forensic science and its admission into evidence, these publications include early commentary on the Daubert decision and an extensive review of the 2009 National Academy of Science report Forensic Science in the United States.

While president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (2009–2010), he sought to make the Academy a partner in the forensic‐science reform called from by the report. Later, while president of the Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board (2015–2017), he oversaw the revision of that organization's standards so as to limit the board's offer of accreditation to those Conformity Assessment Bodies that certified forensic practices that are reliable and reproducible. He resides in Casco Bay's Peaks Island in the State of Maine.

Edmund R. Donoghue, M.D. is a forensic pathologist and regional medical examiner for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in Savannah, GA. Dr. Donoghue is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He received postgraduate medical specialty training at the Mayo Clinic, the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office, and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. For 30 years he was employed by the Office of the Medical Examiner of Cook County in Chicago, IL, and for the last 14 of those years he was chief medical examiner.

Dr. Donoghue is certified by the American Board of Pathology in anatomic and forensic pathology. He served as a clinical professor of forensic pathology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has served as president and chair of the board of directors of the National Association of Medical Examiners. Dr. Donoghue is a past president of the Chicago Medical Society, the Georgia Medical Society, and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Zeno Geradts is a senior forensic scientist at the department of Digital and Biometric Traces of the Netherlands Forensic Institute. He is for one day a week full professor by special chair of forensic data science at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are the use of deep learning and artificial intelligence in forensic science in interpreting images and data.

He is president elect of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 2018–2019 and will be the 2019–2020 president of the AAFS. Furthermore, he is associate editor of the Journal of Forensic Sciences, and chairman of the European Network of Forensic Science (ENFSI) Forensic IT working group.

John Gerns is past president of the AAFS and sat on the AAFS Executive Committee and the board of directors. He has been with the AAFS since 1983 and became a Fellow in 1992. He is an Adjunct Professor for Central Texas College and the University of Maryland University College where he teaches Forensic Science and Criminal Justice. In addition, he provides forensic science consultation on violent crimes.

Prior to his retirement on 30 September 2013, he was the Investigations and Operations Consultant assigned to the Fourth Field Investigations Squadron, Vogelweh, Germany. He has extensive training and experience in major investigations involving death, child physical and sexual abuse, sexual assault, mass grave exhumations, along with crime scene processing and reconstruction. Special Agent Gerns' assignments have included Command Forensic Advisor, Director of Criminal Investigations, Director of Investigative Specialties, Forensic Consultant to International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and Chief of Death Investigations. His primary role during that period was ensuring the latest innovations in the forensic sciences were applied to AFOSI's investigative mission.

Carol Henderson is the founding director of the National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology, and the Law, and a professor of law at Stetson University College of Law. Professor Henderson has presented more than 300 lectures and workshops worldwide on scientific evidence, courtroom testimony, and professional responsibility. She has more than 90 publications including “Sleuthing Scientific Evidence Information on the Internet,” 106 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology59 (2016) and “Future Focus for Forensic Science,” a special issue of The Sci Tech Lawyer (2017).

Professor Henderson has appeared in national media as a legal analyst and testified before the US Congress. She served as the president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (2008–2009) and presently serves on the ABA's Science and Technology Law Section Council. She is the deputy editor‐in‐chief of The SciTech Lawyer. She also serves on the ABA Judicial Division Forensic Science Committee and as faculty for the National Judicial College. In February 2019, she received the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Distinguished Fellow award.

Barry K. Logan PhD, is chief scientist at NMS Labs and executive director of the Center for Forensic Science Research and Education in Willow Grove PA. He has authored or coauthored over 120 publications, and his current research interests are in the area of Novel Psychoactive Substances, and Drug and Alcohol Impaired Driving.

He holds academic appointments at Indiana University, where he directs the Robert F. Borkenstein Course on Alcohol, and at Thomas Jefferson University where he is director of the Forensic Toxicology Professional Science Masters Program. He served as president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences between 2013 and 2014.

Daniel A. Martell, Ph.D., A.B.P.P. is a forensic neuropsychologist who has specialized experience applying diverse knowledge to cases involving forensic neuroscience and human behavior. He is Board‐Certified in Forensic Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology; a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology; and a Fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in London; and a Fellow and Past President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

He is a member of the Clinical Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Examples of his expertise in criminal cases include brain damage and crimes of violence, mass murderers and serial killers, violent sexual predators, and capital habeas corpus appeals litigation. He is particularly experienced with dozens of cases involving determinations of Intellectual Disability and the death penalty pursuant to Atkins v. Virginia, having been the prosecution's expert in that landmark case. His experience in civil litigation includes damages determinations in mass torts, lawsuits arising from clergy abuse, corporate civil and products liability, employment law, and elder law cases involving testamentary capacity and undue influence.

Carl R. McClary is a senior forensic document examiner and technical lead with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives forensic science laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a member of the Questioned Documents consensus body of the Academy Standards Board (ASB) and former chair of the E30.02 Questioned Documents subcommittee of the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM). Some of his recent research focus has been on document examiner aptitude in determining stroke velocity rates in handwriting, opinion terminology standardization, and forensic science training development and standardization. He is the current treasurer of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Linton A. Mohammed, Ph.D., D‐ABFDE has been in the field of Forensic Document Examination for more than 30 years. His PhD thesis was entitled “Elucidating spatial and dynamic features to discriminate between signature disguise and signature forgery behavior.” He has testified as an expert witness more than 100 times in the United States, England, and the Caribbean. He is the coauthor of “The Neuroscience of Handwriting: Applications for Forensic Document Examination,” and has published several papers in peer‐reviewed journals. Dr. Mohammed has conducted or copresented workshops on signature and document examination in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Latvia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United States. In 2012, he was given the New Horizon Award in Recognition of Exceptional Contributions in Scientific Research for the Advancement of Forensic Document Examination by the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners, Inc.

Dr. Mohammed is certified by the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners, Inc. and holds a Diploma in Document Examination from the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences. He is a member and past president of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, Inc., a Fellow of the Questioned Documents Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and serving as the Chair of the Section from 2016 to 2018. He serves on the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Forensic Sciences and Journal of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, and is a guest reviewer for several other journals. Dr. Mohammed is in private practice in Burlingame, CA (San Francisco Bay Area).

Richard Rosner, M.D. is a clinical professor of Psychiatry and a clinical professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. He is editor or coeditor of nine books on forensic psychiatry and three books on adolescent psychiatry. He is a former president and distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS). The AAFS Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Section named its annual award for the Best Paper by a Forensic Psychiatry Fellow or a Forensic Psychology Fellow in his honor, that is, the Richard Rosner Award.

He is a former president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL). He has received AAPL's Seymour Pollack award for teaching, AAPL's “Red Apple” award for services to the organization, and AAPL's “Golden Apple” for lifetime achievements in forensic psychiatry. He has been president of the Accreditation Council on Fellowships in Forensic Psychiatry and president of the Association of Directors of Forensic Psychiatry Fellowships. He is a former president of the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry, Inc. He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). He is a recipient of the Isaac Ray Award of the APA for distinguished contributions to forensic psychiatry. He (with Charles Scott, M.D.) received the Manfred Guttmacher Award of the APA for their book Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, Third Edition. He is a fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. He is a fellow of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry (ASAP), a former president of ASAP, a recipient of the Herman Staples Award for distinguished services to ASAP, and a recipient of the highest recognition bestowed by ASAP, its William Schoenfeld Award.

Douglas H. Ubelaker, Ph.D. is a curator and senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. where he has been employed for over four decades. Since 1978, he has served as a consultant in forensic anthropology. In this capacity, he has served as an expert witness, reporting on more than 980 cases and has testified in numerous legal proceedings.

He is a professorial lecturer with the Departments of Anatomy and Anthropology at the George Washington University, Washington, DC., and is an adjunct professor with the Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Ubelaker has published extensively in the general field of human skeletal biology with an emphasis on forensic applications. He served as the 2011–2012 president of the AAFS.

John Sang received his Master of Science from the Forensic Science Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. He served as vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 2010–2011 and four years on the board of directors and served as Section Chair of the Question Documents Section. He chaired many technical workshops at the AAFS. He received the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Question Document Sections Ordway Hilton Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Forensic Document Examination. He was certified by American Board of Forensic Document Examination (ABFDE), is a Member of the American Society of Testing and Materials International and the Northeastern Association of Forensic Sciences.

John taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, University of New Haven, Ct., Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY, New York City Police Academy, Advanced and Specialized Training and the NYPD Crime Laboratory. He was a lieutenant with the New York City Police Department with specialties in scientific and criminal investigation. He served as technical supervisor and as a forensic document examiner in the Forensic Document Section of the New York City Police Crime Laboratory. He had a number of other positions in the Police Department and testified in a number of high‐profile cases. He is now in private practice as a Forensic Document Examiner.

Ronald L. Singer, M.S. is the technical and administrative director for the Tarrant County (Texas) Medical Examiner's Office. A forensic scientist for over 46 years, he is a distinguished fellow and past president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences; a distinguished member and past president of the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners, and a past president of the International Association of Forensic Science.

He is the recipient of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Criminalistics Section Distinguished Service Award, the Mediterranean Academy of Forensic Sciences Gold Medal Award and the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners Member of the Year Award, and has been an invited speaker throughout the United States and England, Hungary, Bosnia, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Dubai, and Lebanon.

The forensic sciences represent diverse, dynamic fields that seek to utilize the very best techniques available to address legal issues. Fueled by advances in technology, research, and methodology, as well as new case applications, the forensic sciences continue to evolve. Forensic scientists strive to improve their analyses and interpretations of evidence and to remain cognizant of the latest advancements. This series results from a collaborative effort between the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) and Wiley to publish a select number of books that relate closely to the activities and Objectives of the AAFS. The book series reflects the goals of the AAFS to encourage quality scholarship and publication in the forensic sciences. Proposals for publication in the series are reviewed by a committee established for that purpose by the AAFS and also reviewed by Wiley.

The AAFS was founded in 1948 and represents a multidisciplinary professional organization that provides leadership to advance science and its application to the legal system. The 11 sections of the AAFS consist of Criminalistics, Digital and Multimedia Sciences, Engineering Sciences, General, Pathology/Biology, Questioned Documents, Jurisprudence, Anthropology, Toxicology, Odontology, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. There are over 7000 members of the AAFS, originating from all 50 states of the United States and many countries beyond. This series reflects global AAFS membership interest in new research, scholarship, and publication in the forensic sciences.

Douglas H. Ubelaker
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC, USA
November, 2018

This book captures the content of the 2015 American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Interdisciplinary Symposium, one of the highlights of the Academy meeting in Orlando, FL. Preeminent visionaries in their respective fields, this collection of authors are all past presidents and officers of the AAFS, and as such provide a diverse interdisciplinary view of the direction forensics will take in the years to come. These experts are not only familiar with the past in their fields but are also looking forward to the future to envision where forensic science will be a decade from now.

The past presidents of the AAFS represent a vast repository of forensic science experience, knowledge, insight, and wisdom. As a group, they are unique in the world with regard to the scope of their collective influence and leadership vision in the forensic sciences. This volume, based on the 2015 AAFS Interdisciplinary Symposium, harnesses the energy from this eminent group of forensic scientists and focuses it on the Academy's future.

Here, the authors share their vision for the future of forensic science in their respective disciplines, emphasizing hot leads from the laboratory, theoretical advances, and emerging technologies. The goal of this volume is to envision where the forensic sciences will be a decade from now, the impact of these emerging advances on the law, and our place in it. This historic endeavor will be of significant interest to all Academy members and provides a unique forum for learning from each other about the future of forensic science.

At a time when there is enormous international interest in the future of forensic science, from articulating standards to the evolution of scientific methods, instrumentation, and technologies, the need for leadership is critical. This book provides an opportunity to provide that leadership to the entire forensic science community. The authors represented in this volume comprise some of the greatest forensic minds of their generation; leaders who command the respect and admiration of the entire international forensic community. The opportunity to gather them together and focus their energies on a vision for the future of our field is both invaluable and unprecedented.

There has never been a volume that brings together such a broad spectrum of renowned thought leaders in all areas of forensic science. The high profile of the authors, the fact that all 11 sections of the AAFS are represented, the broad appeal of the topic to an international audience, and the timing that coincides with the NIST forensic science initiative and the OSAC process all contribute to the importance and appeal of this volume.

It has been my great honor to join this group and help to shape and coordinate this endeavor.

Daniel A. Martell
American Academy of Forensic Sciences