​Scientific Presentations

2020 American Academy of Forensic Science (AAFS)

February 17-22, 2020 Anaheim, California

Pathology/Biology

Simplified DNA Barcoding Strategy for Forensically Relevant Blow and Flesh Flies 
Joseph Truppi, BS; Sam Kwiatkowski, PhD; Michelle R. Sanford, PhD; Michael A. Donley, MS; Katherine Welch, MS; Roger Kahn, PhD

Rule Out Trauma: A Five-Year Retrospective Study on Natural Disease, External Trauma, and Manner of Death at the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences
Monica B. Patel, DO; Pramod Gumpeni, MD

Non-Natural Deaths on Hospital Property: A 5-Year Retrospective of Cases from Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences
Brook Blake, MD

Evaluating the Nearest Weather Station as the Best Representation of Scene Temperature in Forensic Entomology Casework
Michelle R. Sanford, PhD; Si Gao, MS

Criminalistics

The Benefits and Burdens of Implementing Probabilistic Genotyping (PG) Software 
Roger Kahn, PhD; Joseph Truppi, BS; Priscilla A. Hill, MS; Michael A. Donley, MS; Katherine Welch, MS

General

Crossing the Border between Academia and Forensic Science Practice: Managing a Successful Student Internship Program in an Integrated Medical Examiner Office and Crime Laboratory 
Jasmine M. Jefferson, MS; Michal L. Pierce, MS

Drowning: The Silent Death 
Cheyenne M. Graham; Roxanne Phatak, MS

Anthropology

The Infant Injury Database 
Miriam E. Soto Martinez, PhD; Jason M. Wiersema, PhD; Deborrah C. Pinto, PhD; Julie M. Fleischman, PhD; Christian Crowder, PhD; Jennifer C. Love, PhD; Sharon M. Derrick, PhD; Christopher S. Greeley, MD; Marcella Donaruma-Kwoh, MD; Angela Bachim, MD

Pediatric Posterior Rib Terminus Defects: An Investigation of a Potential Mimic of Traumatic Injury 
Jason M. Wiersema, PhD; Miriam E. Soto Martinez, PhD; Deborrah C. Pinto, PhD; Julie M. Fleischman, PhD; Dwayne A. Wolf, MD, PhD; Aubrie M. Sanchez, MS, MPH

Fracture Pattern of Midface Ballistic Trauma 
Casey File, MS; Deborrah C. Pinto, PhD; Si Gao, MS; Jason M. Wiersema, PhD; Julie M. Fleischman, PhD; Miriam E. Soto Martinez, PhD

Conservation and Analysis of Human Remains from the Khmer Rouge-Period Mass Gravesite of Krang Ta Chan, Cambodia
Julie M. Fleischman, PhD