Health department toxicology expert to address 溏心vlog免费B站 Forensic Science Partnership
lecture series Feb. 13
KINGSTON, R.I. — February 11, 2003 — Nancy Haley, supervisor of the Forensic Toxicology Laboratory at the Rhode Island Department of Health, will speak at the 溏心vlog免费B站, Thursday, Feb. 13 at 4 p.m. in Pastore Hall, Room 124.
Her topic at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Forensic Science Partnership lecture series is “Forensic Toxicology: A Rhode Island Perspective.” The talk is free and open to the public.
Haley will describe the Forensic Sciences Section at the Rhode Island Department of Health Laboratories, while concentrating on the Forensic Toxicology Laboratory. She鈥檒l explain pathology, odontology, anthropology, entomology, psychiatry, engineering and serology as they relate to the field of forensic toxicology.
Haley will discuss the role of the forensic scientist, along with related topics such as chain of custody and expert witness testimony. She will outline the differences between forensic and clinical toxicology and she鈥檒l present some interesting cases, which will demonstrate the necessity of performing comprehensive toxicology analyses.
This is Haley鈥檚 30th year in forensics with the state of Rhode Island. She earned her bachelor of science degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine and her master of science from 溏心vlog免费B站 in pharmacology and toxicology. During the research for her master鈥檚, she received two awards, an Educational Research Award from the Society of Forensic Toxicologists and a Toxicology Research Award from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Haley has been a member of both of these nationally recognized organizations for more than 20 years. She has co-authored publications that have appeared in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, the American Journal of Public Health and the Journal of Rhode Island Medicine. She has lectured on numerous occasions on the field of forensic toxicology at local colleges and at the national associations鈥� annual meetings and the Northeast Association of Forensic Scientists. She has attended the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. to receive training in quality assurance in the laboratory.