← Back to MDI Webinar Series Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour In response to the lack of real-time reporting of both non-fatal and fatal overdoses across the United States, the Washington/Baltimore High…
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Death Certification by the Medical Examiner/Coroner in Drug-Related Deaths
← Back to MDI Webinar Series Tuesday, November 30th, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour Considering the steadily rising number of overdose deaths in recent years, public health systems rely on the vital role of medicolegal…
Data Systems Imperative in 21st Century Forensic Services
← Back to MDI Webinar Series Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour Forensic science and service providers are, almost universally, experiencing a two-fold challenge to achieve effective results: diminishing resources and increasing demands…
MDI Considerations for Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
← Back to MDI Webinar Series Thursday, November 4th, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour Medical examiners and coroners use a variety of data sources to complete a medicolegal death investigation (MDI) and make determinations on…
The Importance of Data to the MDI Community and Stakeholders
← Back to MDI Webinar Series Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour Many stakeholders rely on medicolegal death investigation (MDI) data to support efforts that help save lives and promote justice. These stakeholders…
Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) Webinar Series
Overview The medicolegal death investigation (MDI) system, which includes Medical Examiner and Coroner offices, serves a fundamental role for supporting public safety by conducting death scene investigations, performing forensic autopsies, providing cause and manner of death determinations, and completing death…
Sam Quinones | International Award-Winning Author – The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
Thursday, October 28, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and an international award-winning author of four books of narrative nonfiction. Quinones’ latest book, The Least of Us: True…
DART-MS Data Interpretation Tool and Other Resources for Seized Drug Analysis
Thursday, October 21st, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour Over the past several years, emerging drugs and novel psychoactive substances have increased the challenge of seized drug analysis. Many laboratories have turned to new technology to…
Mapping Technologies for Crime Scenes
This webinar originally occurred on October 14th, 2021 Duration: 1 hour Traditionally, crime scene processing has involved manual measurements to construct diagrammatic representations of crime scenes. This is labor and time-intensive and does not necessarily yield a complete representation of…
Lessons Learned from Project ECHO: Overdose Fatality Investigation Techniques
This webinar originally occurred on Thursday, October 7th, 2021 Duration: 1 hour State and territorial public health agencies rely on timely and accurate overdose mortality data to drive effective prevention initiatives. As the number of overdose deaths in the United…