Notes on contributors

Bob Barsley, has been continually licensed in Louisiana to practice dentistry since 1977 and to practice law since 1987. He is a tenured Professor at LSU where he has been full-time faculty since 1882. He is a fellow of the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists, the Pierre Fauchard Academy, and the Odontology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He has also served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Congressional Health Policy Fellow in the office of Senator John Breaux. He is a past president, past Speaker of the House, and a past secretary/treasurer of the Louisiana Dental Association. He is the immediate past Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents in Washington, DC.

Dr. Barsley has also served as Acting State Dental Director of the Louisiana Office of Public Health and as the Chief Compliance Office for the LSU Health Sciences Center. He has held numerous officers in various forensic organizations and is a past president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, past Treasurer of the Forensic Science Foundation, and is a past president of the American Board of Forensic Odontology and of the American Society of Forensic Odontology. He has been a member of the Journal of Forensic Sciences Editorial Board for many years and is a frequent guest reviewer for the Journal of the American Dental Association and the Journal of Dental Education. He was named by NIST to chair the Odontology Subcommittee of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees under the auspices of the Forensic Sciences Standards Board. He served as the magistrate judge for the Ponchatoula City Court for nine years.

Thomas L. Bohan, Ph.D., J.D., holds his physics PhD from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champagne and his law degree from the University of New Hampshire School of Law. He has authored books and peer-reviewed papers in the scientific and legal professional literature. Reflecting his interest in forensic science and its admission into evidence, these publications include early commentary on the Daubert decision and an extensive review of the 2009 National Academy of Science report Forensic Science in the United States.

While president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (2009-2010), he sought to make the Academy a partner in the forensic-science reform called from by the report. Later, while president of the Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board (2015-2017), he oversaw the revision of that organization's standards so as to limit the board's offer of accreditation to those Conformity Assessment Bodies that certified forensic practices that are reliable and reproducible. He resides in Casco Bay's Peaks Island in the State of Maine.

Edmund R. Donoghue, M.D. is a forensic pathologist and regional medical examiner for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in Savannah, GA. Dr. Donoghue is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He received postgraduate medical specialty training at the Mayo Clinic, the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office, and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. For 30 years he was employed by the Office of the Medical Examiner of Cook County in Chicago, IL, and for the last 14 of those years he was chief medical examiner.

Dr. Donoghue is certified by the American Board of Pathology in anatomic and forensic pathology. He served as a clinical professor of forensic pathology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has served as president and chair of the board of directors of the National Association of Medical Examiners. Dr. Donoghue is a past president of the Chicago Medical Society, the Georgia Medical Society, and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Zeno Geradts is a senior forensic scientist at the department of Digital and Biometric Traces of the Netherlands Forensic Institute. He is for one day a week full professor by special chair of forensic data science at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are the use of deep learning and artificial intelligence in forensic science in interpreting images and data.

He is president elect of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 2018-2019 and will be the 2019-2020 president of the AAFS. Furthermore, he is associate editor of the Journal of Forensic Sciences, and chairman of the European Network of Forensic Science (ENFSI) Forensic IT working group.

John Gerns is past president of the AAFS and sat on the AAFS Executive Committee and the board of directors. He has been with the AAFS since 1983 and became a Fellow in 1992. He is an Adjunct Professor for Central Texas College and the University of Maryland University College where he teaches Forensic Science and Criminal Justice. In addition, he provides forensic science consultation on violent crimes.

Prior to his retirement on 30 September 2013, he was the Investigations and Operations Consultant assigned to the Fourth Field Investigations Squadron, Vogelweh, Germany. He has extensive training and experience in major investigations involving death, child physical and sexual abuse, sexual assault, mass grave exhumations, along with crime scene processing and reconstruction. Special Agent Gerns' assignments have included Command Forensic Advisor, Director of Criminal Investigations, Director of Investigative Specialties, Forensic Consultant to International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and Chief of Death Investigations. His primary role during that period was ensuring the latest innovations in the forensic sciences were applied to AFOSI's investigative mission.

Carol Henderson is the founding director of the National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology, and the Law, and a professor of law at Stetson University College of Law. Professor Henderson has presented more than 300 lectures and workshops worldwide on scientific evidence, courtroom testimony, and professional responsibility. She has more than 90 publications including "Sleuthing Scientific Evidence Information on the Internet," 106 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology59 (2016) and "Future Focus for Forensic Science," a special issue of The Sci Tech Lawyer (2017).

Professor Henderson has appeared in national media as a legal analyst and testified before the US Congress. She served as the president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (2008-2009) and presently serves on the ABA's Science and Technology Law Section Council. She is the deputy editor-in-chief of The SciTech Lawyer. She also serves on the ABA Judicial Division Forensic Science Committee and as faculty for the National Judicial College. In February 2019, she received the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Distinguished Fellow award.

Barry K. Logan PhD, is chief scientist at NMS Labs and executive director of the Center for Forensic Science Research and Education in Willow Grove PA. He has authored or coauthored over 120 publications, and his current research interests are in the area of Novel Psychoactive Substances, and Drug and Alcohol Impaired Driving.

He holds academic appointments at Indiana University, where he directs the Robert F. Borkenstein Course on Alcohol, and at Thomas Jefferson University where he is director of the Forensic Toxicology Professional Science Masters Program. He served as president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences between 2013 and 2014.

Daniel A. Martell, Ph.D., A.B.P.P. is a forensic neuropsychologist who has specialized experience applying diverse knowledge to cases involving forensic neuroscience and human behavior. He is Board-Certified in Forensic Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology; a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology; and a Fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in London; and a Fellow and Past President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

He is a member of the Clinical Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Examples of his expertise in criminal cases include brain damage and crimes of violence, mass murderers and serial killers, violent sexual predators, and capital habeas corpus appeals litigation. He is particularly experienced with dozens of cases involving determinations of Intellectual Disability and the death penalty pursuant to Atkins v. Virginia, having been the prosecution's expert in that landmark case. His experience in civil litigation includes damages determinations in mass torts, lawsuits arising from clergy abuse, corporate civil and products liability, employment law, and elder law cases involving testamentary capacity and undue influence.

Carl R. McClary is a senior forensic document examiner and technical lead with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives forensic science laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a member of the Questioned Documents consensus body of the Academy Standards Board (ASB) and former chair of the E30.02 Questioned Documents subcommittee of the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM). Some of his recent research focus has been on document examiner aptitude in determining stroke velocity rates in handwriting, opinion terminology standardization, and forensic science training development and standardization. He is the current treasurer of the American Academy of...