Forensic Pathology SAC
Forensic pathology is the specialty in which doctors examine people who have died, usually when there is concern that the cause of death was unnatural. Although this is a branch of pathology that many people have heard of via the media, it is one of the smallest specialties.
Chair: Dr Ralph Bouhaidar
Committee Members
- Dr Jeff Adams - Home Office and Forensic Science Regulator (observer)
- Dr Srinivas Annavarapu - Chair, Prenatal, Perinatal and Paediatric Pathology SAC)
- Mr Martin Allix - Home Office Forensic Pathology Officer
- Dr Esther Youd - Chair, Death Investigation Committee
- Dr Ralph Bouhaidar - Workforce and recruitment lead
- Mr David Green - Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (observer)
- Dr Amanda Jeffery - BAFM representative
- Professor Peter Johnston - Vice President for Professionalism
- Dean Jones - Senior Forensic Pathology Manager
- Dr James Lyness - State Pathologist
- Dr Jonathan Medcalf - Association of Clinical Pathologists
- Dr Nicholas Shaw - Coroners' Society
- Dr Marjorie Turner - Panel of Examiners Chair
- Dr Ralph Bouhaidar - Chair, Forensic Pathology SAC
CELEBRATING OUR SPECIALTIES
Our April 2022 Bulletin celebrates the history and achievements of some of our pathology specialties. The article by Home Office forensic pathologists, Dean Jones and Martin Allix gives a fascinating insight into decision-making processes at the initial scene of an unexpected death and how new research will give police officers the tools to make better judgements and decisions – to be able to make a fatal call and stop people getting away with murder.