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The Department of Forensic Medicine operates as a department within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. Its primary function is to advance the discipline of forensic medicine and its associated disciplines both in terms of its training and development of future practitioners and to increase the evidence basis for the discipline through research.
It operates in close association with the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Southbank campus.
Vision
To enhance teaching and research outputs in the department and strengthen the evidence basis of forensic medicine and science, and related disciplines
Mission
- To strengthen and increase the awareness and functions of the Department of Forensic Medicine nationally and internationally;
- To further develop and strengthen teaching;
- To increase the capacity to conduct and supervise research; and
- To increase research outputs with an emphasis on prevention and public health.
Achievements
Since its inception 21 years ago the Institute, together with the Department of Forensic Medicine, has produced many significant research findings that have contributed to death and injury prevention and public health. It has also developed a significant post-graduate teaching output with the post-graduate courses in forensic medicine producing 62 graduates over 10 years. There have been almost 50 Bachelor of Science (honours) and Bachelor of Medical Science graduates, and almost 20 post-graduate degrees by research including doctors of philosophy (PhD), many of whom have stayed to work with us at the Institute. There have been over 500 publications in this time covering a variety of themes related to forensic medicine.
Staff
Research
Professor Olaf H. Drummer
Head of Department
Professor Stephen M Cordner
Chair in Forensic Medicine
Ms Vicki McAuliffe
Department Manager
Ms Lucia MacFarlane
Administrative Officer – HR & Finance
Ms Ceril Pereira
Personal Assistant & Publications Officer
Mrs Debbie Hellings
Administrator – Postgraduate Programs
Ms Kerry Johannes
Librarian
Teaching
Master of Forensic Medicine
Assoc Prof David Wells
Director Postgraduate Programs
Course Coordinator – Master of Forensic Medicine
Unit Coordinator – Injury Interpretation
Clinical Assoc Prof David Ranson
Unit Coordinator – Medical Evidence
Dr Anne Smith
Unit Coordinator– Non Accidental Injury in Childhood
Dr Dawn Elder
Unit Coordinator - Child and Adolescent Sexual Assualt
Emeritus Professor Louis Waller
Unit Coordinator – Medical Evidence to Ethics, Madicine and the Law
Mrs Anna Davey
Unit Coordinator – Elements of Forensic Science
Dr Morris Odell
Unit Coordinator – Traffic Medicine
Professor Michael Levy
Unit Coordinator – Custodial Medicine
Dr Vanita Parekh
Unit Coordinator – Adult Sexual Assault
Professor Olaf H. Drummer
Unit Coordinator – Elements of Forensic Toxicology
Medical Law Programs
Clinical Assoc Prof David Ranson
Convener –Medical Law Programs
Ms Natalie Oakley
Administrator – Medical Law Programs
