DR. JUDY MELINEK

Judy Melinek, M.D. is an associate clinical professor at UCSF Medical Center and a forensic pathologist at the Alameda County Coroner’s Office. She received training at Harvard, UCLA and the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and the latter work is the subject of her bestselling memoir, Working Stiff, written with T.J. Mitchell. She has been consulted as a forensic expert in high-profile legal cases, as well as for TV’s  E.R. and Mythbusters. She has a special interest in the use of forensic science in wrongful conviction cases. She will follow her talk with a book-signing.