selected publications academic article Motorcycle Policy and the Public Interest: A Recommendation for a New Type of Partial Motorcycle Helmet Law.. The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 45:50-54. 2017 The National Violent Death Reporting System: Use of the Restricted Access Database and Recommendations for the System's Improvement. 2017 Presence of Alcohol, Cocaine, and Other Drugs in Suicide and Motor Vehicle Crash Decedents Ages 18 to 54.. Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research. 41:571-575. 2017 Comparative Evaluation of Potentially Radiolucent Projectile Components by Radiographs and Computed Tomography.. Journal of forensic sciences. 61:1563-1570. 2016 Comparative Evaluation of Potentially Radiolucent Projectile Components by Radiographs and Computed Tomography.. Journal of forensic sciences. 61:1563-1570. 2016 Recognition and response to opioid overdose deaths-New Mexico, 2012.. Drug and alcohol dependence. 167:29-35. 2016 Self-injury Mortality in the United States in the Early 21st Century: A Comparison With Proximally Ranked Diseases.. JAMA psychiatry. 73:1072-1081. 2016 Blood Alcohol Concentrations in Suicide and Motor Vehicle Crash Decedents Ages 18 to 54.. Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research. :-. 2016 Heavy Alcohol Use Among Suicide Decedents: Differences in Risk Across Racial-Ethnic Groups.. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). :-. 2016 Precipitating Circumstances of Suicide and Alcohol Intoxication Among U.S. Ethnic Groups.. Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research. 39:1510-1517. 2015 Comparative Analysis of the Public Health Role of Two Types of Death Investigation Systems in Texas: Application of Essential Services.. Journal of forensic sciences. 60:914-918. 2015 Variable Classification of Drug-Intoxication Suicides across US States: A Partial Artifact of Forensics? 2015 Confronting death from drug self-intoxication (DDSI): prevention through a better definition. 2014 Use of alcohol before suicide in the United States.. Annals of epidemiology. 24:588-592.e1-2. 2014 Acute use of alcohol and methods of suicide in a US national sample. 2014 Acute alcohol intoxication and suicide: a gender-stratified analysis of the National Violent Death Reporting System. 2013 2009 H1N1 fatalities: the New Mexico experience.. Journal of forensic sciences. 57:1512-1518. 2012 A history of being prescribed controlled substances and risk of drug overdose death.. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.). 13:87-95. 2012 Essential medicolegal death investigation services: standardization of a survey instrument based on the Essential Public Health Services.. Journal of forensic sciences. 56:1034-1040. 2011 Clinicopathologic features of agranulocytosis in the setting of levamisole-tainted cocaine.. American journal of clinical pathology. 133:466-472. 2010 Fatal wrong-way collisions on New Mexico's interstate highways, 1990-2004.. Journal of forensic sciences. 55:432-437. 2010 Guidelines to implement medical examiner/coroner-based surveillance for fatal infectious diseases and bioterrorism ("Med-X").. The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology. 31:308-312. 2010 Drugs, detention, and death: a study of the mortality of recently released prisoners.. The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology. 30:6-9. 2009 Medical terminology coding systems and medicolegal death investigation data: searching for a standardized method of electronic coding at a statewide medical examiner's office.. Journal of forensic sciences. 54:207-211. 2009 The Medical Examiner/Coroner's Guide for Contaminated Deceased Body Management.. The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology. 30:327-338. 2009 Speaking the right language: the scientific method as a framework for a continuous quality improvement program within academic medical research compliance units.. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 83:941-948. 2008 Outbreak of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the southwestern United States. Response of pathologists and other laboratorians.. American journal of clinical pathology. 101:S1-S5. 1994
education and training M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1978 - 1982 Pennsylvania Hospital , Internal Medicine 1982 - 1983 Pennsylvania Hospital , Anatomic Pathology 1985 - 1987 Massachusetts General Hospital , Anatomic Pathology 1984 - 1985