Andrew Baker, MD, FCAP Related Seminars and Products

Chief Medical Examiner

Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office

Rebecca Asch-Kendrick, M.D. Related Seminars and Products

Forensic Pathologist

MMEO

Stacy Holzbauer, DVM, MPH Related Seminars and Products

Dr. Stacy Holzbauer is a graduate from South Dakota State University and Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine. After practicing as a large animal veterinarian, she earned an MPH from the University of Iowa College of Public Health and accepted a 2-year fellowship at the CDC working on creating an appropriate antibiotic use program for veterinarians. From 2006 through 2008, Dr. Holzbauer served as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer at the Minnesota Department of Health. Dr. Holzbauer is currently a Commander in the U.S. Public Health Services and serves as a CDC Career Epidemiology Field Officer assigned to the Minnesota Department of Health. She leads MDH’s Unexplained Death and Critical Illness (UNEX) program, is the PI for the Minnesota arm of the CDC’s Emerging Infections Program Clostridium difficile surveillance and serves as the deputy state public health veterinarian.

Karie Gibson, Unit Chief - FBI/BAU1 Related Seminars and Products

Supervisory Special Agent

Federal Bureau of Investigations

Dr. Karie Gibson has been a Special Agent with the FBI for 16 years and currently serves as the Unit Chief for the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit-1 (BAU-1), Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (BTAC), a national-level, multi-agency, multi-disciplinary Task Force focused on the prevention of terrorism and targeted violence through the application of behaviorally-based operational support, training and research for local, state, federal, and international partners.

BTAC routinely completes threat assessments, threat management strategies, statement analysis, interview and interrogation strategies, prosecutorial strategies, media strategies, and unknown offender profiles. Dr. Gibson was a Supervisory Special Agent/Profiler at BAU-1 for nearly 7 years prior to being promoted to Unit Chief.

Prior to becoming an agent with the FBI, Dr. Gibson was and continues to be a licensed clinical psychologist.  She was an officer in the United States Air Force (USAF) where for four years she worked as a psychologist conducting therapy and psychological assessments for military members and their families.  After the USAF, Dr. Gibson was a Forensic Evaluator for the State of Washington for one year before leaving to join the FBI.  As a Forensic Evaluator, Dr. Gibson completed court ordered evaluations such as competency to stand trial, mental state at time of offense, and civil commitment evaluations. 

Dr. Gibson earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Psychology from the University of Minnesota, Morris in 1997; a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in psychological assessment from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology in 2000; and a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degree in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in forensics from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology in 2002.

Kirk Hughes, RN, NREMT, CSPI Related Seminars and Products

Professional Educator/Poison Specialist

MN Regional Poison Center

Kim K. Fallon, BA, ABMDI Related Seminars and Products

Kim Fallon has been certified by the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators since 2009. She has been a death investigator with the NH Office of Chief Medical Examiner since 1993 and the Chief Forensic Investigator for the office since 2005.   She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from Southern Connecticut State College.   After college, Kim trained as a paramedic in New York City and worked there for over 6 years. She also worked as an Advance Cardiac Life Support Instructor.  After moving to New Hampshire, she was a paramedic in a rural emergency department and responded to 911 calls with the local fire department when a paramedic was needed.  

In 1991, she was trained as an eye procurement technician by the New England Eye Bank and recovered corneas and whole eyes from donors throughout New Hampshire for several years.  She was the Bioterrorism Surveillance Coordinator at the NH Department of Health and Human Services from 2001 until 2005. 

Memberships include: 

• Office of National Drug Control Policy, Emerging Threats Committee 
• National Institute of Justice, Death Investigation Guide Working Group  
• Affiliate Member of National Association of Medical Examiners 
• American Academy of Forensic Sciences 
• NH Opioid Overdose Fatality Review Committee 
• NH Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Review Committee 
• NH Sudden Death in Youth Review Committee 
• NH Maternal Mortality Review Committee  

Anna Tart, MD Related Seminars and Products

Anna Lane Tart is the forensic pathology fellow for the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office. Though originally from Chicago, she spent the last eight years in Little Rock completing her medical training and pathology residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. In her spare time she enjoys hiking with her husband and dogs, running, and baking.

Jonathan Thompson, MD Related Seminars and Products

Medical Examiner

State of Iowa

Dr. Jonathan Thompson began his duties as an Associate State Medical Examiner at the Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner (IOSME) in December Of 2008, and became the Deputy State Medical Examiner in November of 2016.

Dr. Thompson received his B.S. from the University of Iowa in Exercise Science. He received his M.D. from the University of Iowa School of Medicine. His four-year residency training took place at the University of Minnesota Medical Center and his fellowship in forensic pathology was done at the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office. Dr. Thompson is certified by the American Board of Pathology in Forensic Pathology, and Anatomic and Clinical Pathology.

Prior to Iowa, he was Assistant Medical Examiner with the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  He is also an Associate Professor of Pathology with the University of Iowa and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Forensic Pathology with Des Moines University.  

Mary Ann Sens, M.D., Ph.D Related Seminars and Products

Mary Ann Sens was born in a rural community outside Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Ohio, Michigan, and Minnesota. She graduated from Eastern Michigan University and completed a PhD in Physical Inorganic Chemistry at the University of South Carolina. Following post-doctoral studies at USC and Harvard, Dr. Sens matriculated at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, obtaining an MD and then continuing for post-graduate training in Pathology, remaining on MUSC faculty for several years in forensic, general autopsy pathology, and renal, cardiac, and transplant surgical pathology. She came to ND in 2002 as Professor and Chair of Pathology at UND, developing a forensic and autopsy pathology service for the NW corner of MN, part of ND with additional referrals from Coroners in MN and SD.  Her interest in sudden infant deaths stems from her participation in a 12-year, international study of sudden infant death and stillbirths in 12,000 pregnancies in the Northern Plains of USA and Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Sens is the author of a popular book in Forensic Pathology, in addition to over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, multiple book chapters, and on-line learning activities.

Philosophy:  Forensic pathology is the O negative of medicine, encompassing all humans – we see the worst and the best in humans. It is the most inclusive practice in all of medicine; we all die, passing through some mandated death system. However, few people, if any, "select" their home based on the quality of the death investigation. In this system, with minimal selection bias and potentially 100% inclusion, forensic pathology has unparalleled opportunities for determining outcomes and identifying inequities. Public and family health are vital practice components in forensic pathology.

Amy Sweasy, JD Related Seminars and Products

Managing Assistant County Attorney

Hennepin County Attorney's Office

Amy Sweasy is a Managing Attorney in the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, Community Prosecution Division. She has been a prosecutor for over 25 years and has prosecuted all types of serious crimes including homicide and complex sexual assault and child abuse cases. She is a graduate and adjunct faculty member of the University of Minnesota Law School.