[379] 'Dr. G' Plans April 12 Forensic-Pathology Lecture In MTSU's Murphy Center

‘DR. G’ PLANS APRIL 12 FORENSIC-PATHOLOGY LECTURE IN MTSU’S MURPHY CENTER
Discovery Health Channel Star’s Appearance is Free, Open to Public

FOR RELEASE: March 25, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Forensic Institute for Research and Education at MTSU, 615-494-7713

(MURFREESBORO)—Dr. Jan Garavaglia, focus of The Discovery Health Channel’s “Dr. G: Medical Examiner” show and a renowned forensic pathologist, will visit MTSU on Tuesday, April 12, as the featured 2011 speaker of the William M. Bass Legends in Forensic Science Lectureship.

Sponsored by the university’s Forensic Institute for Research and Education, the lecture series brings respected lecturers in forensic science to MTSU each fall and spring, said Dr. Hugh Berryman, FIRE director.
Garavaglia, more commonly known as “Dr. G” thanks to her show’s popularity, will deliver her free public lecture, “Forensic Pathology: Fact and Fiction,” at 7 p.m. in Murphy Center.

She is the chief medical examiner for the District Nine (Orange-Osceola) Medical Examiner's Office in Florida.

A graduate of the St. Louis University School of Medicine, Garavaglia completed her fellowship in forensic pathology at the Dade County Medical Examiner's Office in Miami, Fla., and obtained certification by the American Board of Pathology in combined anatomic and clinical pathology and by the American Board of Pathology in forensic pathology.

Garavaglia is a member of the National Association of Medical Examiners and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and is the recipient of the Hidalgo Award, presented by the Bexar County Commissioners Court in Texas for "outstanding work assisting agencies and providing forensic science services during a multijurisdictional capital murder investigation."

Before joining the office in Florida, Garavaglia was a medical examiner at the Bexar County Forensic Science Center in San Antonio, Texas, for 10 years. While there, she also served as a clinical assistant professor for the department of pathology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and as a member of their Graduate Faculty Council for the Graduate School of Biomedical Science. She has also worked as a medical examiner in Jacksonville, Florida and the metropolitan Atlanta area.

Garavaglia has made numerous appearances and presentations and has been published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences and The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology. Her show, now in its seventh season, won an International Health and Medical Media award in 2008 for “Best Health Series.”

Among her prominent criminal investigations are the “Morning Glory Funeral Home” case in Jacksonville, Fla., where bodies were improperly handled and buried at a mortuary, and the Caylee Anthony child-homicide case. She’s also the author of How Not to Die, which educates readers to prevent premature—and avoidable—death.

In addition to FIRE, Garavaglia’s campus visit is sponsored by the MTSU Distinguished Lectures Committee; the College of Liberal Arts; the College of Basic and Applied Sciences; MTSU’s sociology and anthropology, biology and criminal-justice departments; and Phillips Bookstore.

For more information on the April 12 lecture, please contact the FIRE offices at 615-494-7713.


Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. MTSU recently unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.

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IN BRIEF: Dr. Jan Garavaglia, focus of The Discovery Health Channel’s “Dr. G: Medical Examiner” show and a renowned forensic pathologist, will visit MTSU on Tuesday, April 12, as the featured 2011 speaker of the William M. Bass Legends in Forensic Science Lectureship. Garavaglia, author of How Not to Die and more commonly known as “Dr. G” thanks to her show’s popularity, will deliver her free public lecture, “Forensic Pathology: Fact and Fiction,” at 7 p.m. in Murphy Center. For more information on the April 12 lecture, please contact the FIRE offices at 615-494-7713.

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