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Agenda and Presentations

Presentations will be added as they become available

Welcome and Overview of Forensic Science at NIST	Rich Cavanagh, Director, Office of Special Programs, NIST
Overview	Jayne Morrow, NIST; Margaret Warner, CDC
Emerging and Historical Challenges in MDI Toxicological Testing	David Fowler, President of National Association of Medical Examiners
Emerging Trends in Synthetic Drug Detection	Sherri Kacinko, Forensic Toxicologist, NMS Labs
Background on MDI Toxicological Testing Issues: MDI Perspective	John Fudenberg, Clark County Nevada, Chair, OSAC Subcommittee on MDI
Background on MDI Toxicological Testing Issues: Forensic Toxicology Perspective(PDF)	Marc Lebeau, FBI, Chair, OSAC Subcommittee on Toxicology
Panel on Analytical Tools: Now and emerging
Emerging analytes of interest for MDI(PDF)	Robert Johnson, Chief Toxicologist Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office in Fort Worth
Low level analytes and reducing the time to detection in forensic toxicology analysis(PDF)	Madeline Montgomery, FBI, Detection challenges
Predicting metabolites- emerging synthetic drugs and other metabolites, procuring or synthesizing challenges	Shawn Vorce, Technical Director, Chesapeake Toxicology Resources
Plenary
Challenges in interpreting analytical results for MDI and variation for toxicology assessment in death certification(PDF)	Greg Davis, Director of Forensic Division, University of Alabama
Panel Discussion on MDI Toxicology Capability Building
Decision Tree Support or opportunities to support toxicological testing with statistical methods and/or predictive capacity	Scott Larson, Toxicology Supervisor, Forensic Science Division, Montana DOJ
A Community/State System That Works Well to Connect Seized Materials and MDI/Tox (PDF)	Juan Colon, New Jersey State Police, Bureau Chief Information & Intelligence Support Bureau, Office of the Regional Operations Intelligence Center, New Jersey
An Overview of the National Drug Early Warning System	Moira O’Brien, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Top Challenges and Emerging Opportunities
Overview of Forensic Science Policy Efforts	Eleanor Celeste, Policy Analyst, Medical and Forensic Science, OSTP
Apparent Needs and Possible Solutions(PDF)	Victor Weedn, Senior Forensic Advisor to the Deputy Attorney General, DOJ

Drugs and toxicology

Created November 4, 2016, Updated November 9, 2016