Purpose: This Fellowship includes intensive and focused background, instruction, and experience designed to prepare dentists for involvement in Forensic Dentistry. The underlying principle is to provide education and practical experience and to afford opportunities to accomplish requirements toward AAFS membership/fellowship and ABFO certification.

Description: The Fellowship offers a full range of instruction and experience in Forensic Odontology. Included topics are radiographic and photographic imaging principles and interpretation, dental identification of human remains, multiple fatality incident management for victim identification, bitemark analysis and interpretation, recognition and management of victims of abuse (child, adult, and elder, physical, sexual, and neglect), forensic autopsy, forensic anthropology, expert witness testimony and principles relating to the legal system. This Fellowship is designed for dentists who want information and practical experience in forensic dentistry that is more comprehensive than is possible during the biannual Southwest Symposium on Forensic Dentistry.

Administration and Faculty:
David R. Senn, DDS, DABFO directs the Fellowship and coordinates the forensic instruction.
Paula C. Brumit, DDS, DABFO (Adjunct Clinical Professor)
Bruce A. Schrader, DDS (Adjunct Clinical Professor)

Partial List of Additional Faculty and Resources
Randall E. Frost, MD, Bexar County Chief Medical Examiner
Kimberley Molina, MD, Bexar County Deputy Chief Medical Examiner
J. Rod McCutcheon, BS, DABFT, Bexar County Forensic Toxicology Laboratory, Chief Toxicologist
Garon Foster, BS, MS, Bexar County Chief Serologist
Harrell Gill-King, PhD, DABFA, Forensic Anthropologist, Denton, TX
Mark Ingraham, MS, Forensic Anthropologist, Denton, TX
Robert E. Barsley, DDS, JD, DABFO, Forensic Odontologist, Attorney-at-Law, New Orleans, LA
Thomas J. David, DDS, DABFO, Forensic Odontologist, Atlanta, GA
The Bexar County Forensic Science Center and the Bexar County Criminal Investigation Laboratory.

Time: 300 hours (must be completed in a 13 month period) Fellows meet for 7-8 four-day weekends in the 13-month period.

Additional Requirement: Fellows must complete an approved study or research project that will be presented orally to the Forensic Odontology Committee at UTHSCSA and be submitted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Tuition: $7350 plus travel, living expenses, supplies, and incidentals.

Credentials: "Certificate of Completion of Fellowship in Forensic Odontology" issued by C.E.R.F. and the University of Texas Health Science Center- San Antonio specifying the number of hours of instruction; Hour-for-hour CE credit. No academic credit is offered for this Fellowship. Upon successful completion of this fellowship a dentist will meet the education requirement for membership in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) and will meet the education requirement for the American Board of Forensic Odontology (ABFO).

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