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Our winner, Robert Cooper and
his wife Edie.
his wife Edie.
HARLEY DAVIDSON FATBOY RAFFLE
Our Harley Davidson "Fatboy" raffle, coordinated by Karen Cooper (FMROC), turned out to be a very successful event for your
association. After purchasing the Harley your association realized about $13,000.00. The drawing was held at the Ft. Myers
Harley Davidson dealership on August 4th 2007. Our winner was Robert Cooper of Ft. Lauderdale. We had an enthusiastic
gathering as we continued to sell tickets to people browsing the dealership right up to the time of the drawing. Thanks to all our
members who traveled so far to be at the drawing.
Thanks to everyone, members and non-members, who bought and sold tickets for this special event. We cannot name
everyone and will probably forget some and we apologize for this. But, we would be remiss if we didn't publicly acknowledge
those special individuals who were a big part of the success for this endeavor: Karen Cooper, Frank Davis, David Coffman, Tim
Mell, Harry Balke, Chere Reynolds, Elaine Rodriguez, Fauzia Ashfaque, and Babu Thomas.
Our Harley Davidson "Fatboy" raffle, coordinated by Karen Cooper (FMROC), turned out to be a very successful event for your
association. After purchasing the Harley your association realized about $13,000.00. The drawing was held at the Ft. Myers
Harley Davidson dealership on August 4th 2007. Our winner was Robert Cooper of Ft. Lauderdale. We had an enthusiastic
gathering as we continued to sell tickets to people browsing the dealership right up to the time of the drawing. Thanks to all our
members who traveled so far to be at the drawing.
Thanks to everyone, members and non-members, who bought and sold tickets for this special event. We cannot name
everyone and will probably forget some and we apologize for this. But, we would be remiss if we didn't publicly acknowledge
those special individuals who were a big part of the success for this endeavor: Karen Cooper, Frank Davis, David Coffman, Tim
Mell, Harry Balke, Chere Reynolds, Elaine Rodriguez, Fauzia Ashfaque, and Babu Thomas.
FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS
This year the 34th Annual FAME (Florida Association of Medical Examiners) conference was held in St. Petersburg, Fl. District 13 Medical Examiners
Office, University of Florida’s College of Medicine, William R. Maples Center of Forensic Medicine in Corolation with the Florida Medical Examiners
Commission and Florida Department of Law Enforcement jointly sponsored the conference.
The welcome and conference announcements were made by Dr. Sam P Gulino, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Hillsborough County, and FAME 2007
Program chair. The opening remarks were made by Dr. Michael Bell Chief Medical Examiner, Palm Beach County, FAME President and Dr. Vern I.
Adams, Chief Medical Examiner, Hillsborough County, FAME secretary. The emphasis of the conference was on the Medical Examiners issues in
Disaster Response Planning,
Michael Jacobs, Operations and Logistics Manager for the Florida Department of Health, Office of Emergency Operations, discussed the Role of
Emergency support function in a disaster.
FEMORS had a Disaster Portable Morgue Unit, (DPMU), set up which was amazing. It was fully equipped. FEMORS commander, Larry R. Bedroe,
gave a workshop on how it will work in a disaster situation.
Dr. William A. Bower, from CDC gave a lecture on infection control during a Bioterrorism event. Postal terrorism for 2001, Washington DC, Anthrax
Cases, was discussed by Dr. Jacqueline A Lee. Eloy Nunez, PhD, discussed the planning and response to critical incidents, and the lessons learned
from Super Bowl LXI.
Nuclear and Radiological incidents and the Medical Examiner was discussed by Dr. John J. Lanza, CHD Director at the Florida Department of Health,
Escambia County Health Department.
There was a very educational workshop on Chemical terrorism threats and case studies by Jack Pittman Director, Public Health Preparedness and
Response.
Life Link of Florida sponsored a beautiful evening out and dinner at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa; Mark Strong gave a very nice speech on the
importance of the tissue donation.
This year Fauzia Ashfaque, Toxicologist II, from Broward County Medical Examiners office set up a booth for the Florida Association of Forensic
Professionals (FAOFP) in the exhibition room along with other vendors and sponsors. We had a beautiful basket for raffle, which was won by Dr. Marie
Herman, Chief Medical Examiner of Volusia County . The booth was a success as Fauzia got to talk to a lot of people from different counties, and was
very surprised that a lot of people were not very familiar with our cause, or how important it is for us to still to pay our dues for membership so we can
continue our mission to get the retro bill approved and to keep Ron Book, our lobbyist, as a watch dog at the Florida Capital in Tallahassee
This year the 34th Annual FAME (Florida Association of Medical Examiners) conference was held in St. Petersburg, Fl. District 13 Medical Examiners
Office, University of Florida’s College of Medicine, William R. Maples Center of Forensic Medicine in Corolation with the Florida Medical Examiners
Commission and Florida Department of Law Enforcement jointly sponsored the conference.
The welcome and conference announcements were made by Dr. Sam P Gulino, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Hillsborough County, and FAME 2007
Program chair. The opening remarks were made by Dr. Michael Bell Chief Medical Examiner, Palm Beach County, FAME President and Dr. Vern I.
Adams, Chief Medical Examiner, Hillsborough County, FAME secretary. The emphasis of the conference was on the Medical Examiners issues in
Disaster Response Planning,
Michael Jacobs, Operations and Logistics Manager for the Florida Department of Health, Office of Emergency Operations, discussed the Role of
Emergency support function in a disaster.
FEMORS had a Disaster Portable Morgue Unit, (DPMU), set up which was amazing. It was fully equipped. FEMORS commander, Larry R. Bedroe,
gave a workshop on how it will work in a disaster situation.
Dr. William A. Bower, from CDC gave a lecture on infection control during a Bioterrorism event. Postal terrorism for 2001, Washington DC, Anthrax
Cases, was discussed by Dr. Jacqueline A Lee. Eloy Nunez, PhD, discussed the planning and response to critical incidents, and the lessons learned
from Super Bowl LXI.
Nuclear and Radiological incidents and the Medical Examiner was discussed by Dr. John J. Lanza, CHD Director at the Florida Department of Health,
Escambia County Health Department.
There was a very educational workshop on Chemical terrorism threats and case studies by Jack Pittman Director, Public Health Preparedness and
Response.
Life Link of Florida sponsored a beautiful evening out and dinner at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa; Mark Strong gave a very nice speech on the
importance of the tissue donation.
This year Fauzia Ashfaque, Toxicologist II, from Broward County Medical Examiners office set up a booth for the Florida Association of Forensic
Professionals (FAOFP) in the exhibition room along with other vendors and sponsors. We had a beautiful basket for raffle, which was won by Dr. Marie
Herman, Chief Medical Examiner of Volusia County . The booth was a success as Fauzia got to talk to a lot of people from different counties, and was
very surprised that a lot of people were not very familiar with our cause, or how important it is for us to still to pay our dues for membership so we can
continue our mission to get the retro bill approved and to keep Ron Book, our lobbyist, as a watch dog at the Florida Capital in Tallahassee
FLORIDA DIVISION of the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION for IDENTIFICATION
48th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Your association set up a booth at the FDIAI conference held in Weston, FL., this past October. The booth was staffed by Brian Reynolds, your
association treasurer. It was our pleasure and privilege to meet so many of our members face to face. Besides providing information about the
association and upcoming legislative efforts, we raffled three donated gift baskets, sold FAOFP logo shirts, homemade Rub/Seasoning, and the
Pinellas County S.O. “Cooks Sharing Ideas” cookbook. We made over $ 800.00 for the association.
Ron Book, our lobbyist, gave a very enthusiastic presentation about our legislative efforts and the future of our association. CD’s of Mr. Books talk
are available from your team leaders. If one is not available, please contact us. We encourage everyone to listen to his talk.
The winners of the gift baskets were; King Brown, Daneale Gomer, and Christina Martinez. Congratulations to all.
We thank the FDIAI, their officers, and staff for their support and allowing us to be a part of their event. Overall we had a very successful time at the
convention and we thank everyone who supported our efforts there. Hopefully we'll see everyone again at next years conference.
48th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Your association set up a booth at the FDIAI conference held in Weston, FL., this past October. The booth was staffed by Brian Reynolds, your
association treasurer. It was our pleasure and privilege to meet so many of our members face to face. Besides providing information about the
association and upcoming legislative efforts, we raffled three donated gift baskets, sold FAOFP logo shirts, homemade Rub/Seasoning, and the
Pinellas County S.O. “Cooks Sharing Ideas” cookbook. We made over $ 800.00 for the association.
Ron Book, our lobbyist, gave a very enthusiastic presentation about our legislative efforts and the future of our association. CD’s of Mr. Books talk
are available from your team leaders. If one is not available, please contact us. We encourage everyone to listen to his talk.
The winners of the gift baskets were; King Brown, Daneale Gomer, and Christina Martinez. Congratulations to all.
We thank the FDIAI, their officers, and staff for their support and allowing us to be a part of their event. Overall we had a very successful time at the
convention and we thank everyone who supported our efforts there. Hopefully we'll see everyone again at next years conference.
Fauzia Ashfaque from Broward County Medical Examiners
Office Presenting the Gift basket to Dr. Marie Herman,
Chief Medical Examiner of Volusia County
Office Presenting the Gift basket to Dr. Marie Herman,
Chief Medical Examiner of Volusia County
Gift basket winner Christina Martinez
Chere Reynolds and basket winner King Brown