Death Investigation Committee
The Death Investigation Committee provides guidance and advice on behalf of the College on matters relating to non-forensic post mortems - i.e. hospital and coroner post-mortems that are not special (post mortems on non-suspicious deaths).
Chair: Dr David Bailey
Committee Members
- Ms Anne Marie Aherne - Deputy Head of the Chief Coroner's Office
- Dr Nigel Cooper - Chair, Forensic Pathology SAC
- Professor Tim Dawson - Neuropathology representative
- Professor Sebastian Lucas - Emeritus Professor of Pathology at KCL School of Medicine
- Dr Stephen Morley - Chair, Toxicology SAC
- Mr James Newman - Medico-Legal Committee, Coroner's Society
- Dr Liina Palm - RCPath Prenatal, Perinatal and Paediatric Pathology SAC Representative
- Mr James Parker - Head of the Chief Coroner's Office
- Mr John Pitchers - Association of Anatomical Pathology Technologists Representative
- Professor Kim Suvarna - Lead Examiner for the Certificate in Higher Autopsy Training (CHAT) exam
- Dr Ben Swift - Series Editor for RCPath Autopsy Guideline Scenarios
- Professor Fiona Wilcox - Senior Coroner, London Inner West
- Dr Patrick Yong - Chair, Immunology SAC
- Dr Frances Cranfield - Medical Examiner committee representative - Royal College of General Practitioners
- Ms Diane Gaston - RCPath Head of Communications
- Dr Alan Farnworth - Forensic Pathology Trainee Representative
- Dr Kelly Sherlock - Head of Regulation for the Post Mortem and Public Display sectors
- Prof Atholl Johnston - Toxicology