MEDICAL EXAMINER
Mission To support the Allegheny County criminal justice system with high- quality investigations, analysis, consultations, and expert testimony services. To promote education and research into the key public health problems facing the citizens.
About The Office of the Medical Examiner performs autopsies for all criminal, accidental, or suspicious deaths in Allegheny County. The Medical Examiner also analyzes evidence for law enforcement, the judicial court system, the Office of the Public Defender, and health and environmental agencies. The department has two divisions, Morgue Operations, which performs autopsies and other related services, and Laboratory Operations, which processes forensic and environmental materials. Lab sections include the following disciplines: Drug Chemistry; Environmental Chemistry; Firearms and Tool Marks; Forensic Biology (DNA and Serology); Latent Prints; Mobile Crime Unit; Toxicology; Trace Evidence.
full-time employees who work in the Office of the Medical Examiner 94
forensic investigators, forensic pathologists, forensic supervisors, scientists, autopsy/histology, administrative staff , evidence specialists
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