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LEICESTER FORENSIC MEDICINE TEAM AT PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Posted on 22/08/08

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A delegation from the University of Leicester is attending an international conference on forensic medicine.

Professor Guy Rutty, Dr Liz Turk and Dr Eleanor Graham from the East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit will be representing the University at the 7th International Symposium on Advances in Legal Medicine which is being held in Osaka, Japan, 1-5th September 2008.

Professor Rutty is co-chairing the main seminar on mass fatalities and giving an invited talk "The UK approach to a fatal CBRN incident". Prof Rutty has also been invited to give the closing talk for the conference entitled "Future visions of legal/forensic medicine involving global co-operation".

Professor Rutty is Head of the University of Leicester Forensic Pathology Unit, and is a principal pathology advisor to the Home Office Mass fatalities programme and Regional Resilience team. Last year he was appointed as Chair of the Forensic Science advisory group of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP). The group includes some of the most distinguished names in international forensic science and victim identification and to gain this appointment is a significant achievement for Professor Rutty.

The ICMP are the leaders in large number, difficult sample DNA identification as well as search and recovery of victims of disasters/ conflicts. It was this commission who were able to arrange the identification of the missing following the Bosnian and Kosovo war, as well as some of those reported missing following the Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.

He has worked with fourteen English police forces. He has assisted the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with war crime investigations in Bosnia, and has worked with the International Commission on Missing Persons in the Former Yugoslavia (ICMP).

He also provides a forensic pathology service to the Falkland Islands which includes British Antarctica. His biography has been published in the 2005 Cambridge Blue Book.

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