There is a time-honoured perception that pathologists may know everything, but that they are always too late. However, on a day-to-day basis forensic pathologists are in a key position to identify illnesses and accidents in the mortuary that may have a significant impact on family members and the community. Advice can be given and proposals can be formulated to prevent similar deaths, an area of medicine that has been called “preventive pathology”.
This lecture will deal not only with Prof Byard’s experiences of many such sad cases and deaths over the past few decades, but more importantly how something positive can be derived from these tragedies.
About the Speaker
Professor Roger Byard, AO PSM, holds the George Richard Marks Chair of Pathology at The University of Adelaide and is a Senior Specialist Forensic Pathologist at Forensic Science SA in Adelaide. He has published, or has in press, over 780 papers in peer-reviewed journals, over 110 chapters and a number of texts. He is the Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor of Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology (Springer NYC). He has been involved with a number of studies looking at how mortuary cases and historical events can be used to inform the living.