Upcoming and Recent Presentations

• Coroners of Pennsylvania: A Field Guide, Special Event, Main Line School Night, October 8, 2025, “the fascinating history and little-known powers of coroners…”
• Death, Drugs, and Toxins: A Primer for Writers, Killer Nashville International Writers Conference, August 23, 2025, with fellow physician and writer Jen Evans
• Autopsies: Facts and Fictions, DelVal Chapter, Sisters in Crime, April 19, 2025

Essays

• Guilty Verdict, February 2025, Months to Years
• Second Chances, September 2024, The Rumpus
• Falls: A Leading Cause of Accidental Death, Summer 2024, Chester County Medicine
• The Ghost Room, July 2024, Killer Nashville Magazine
• Teeth: Creative nonfiction piece, August 2022 issue, The Sun Magazine (Readers Write)

Reports

• Coroner/Medical Examiner Services in Pennsylvania: A multi-year study using qualitative and quantitative surveys and public information. Conducted under a grant from the Center for Rural PA. Full study here. PDF executive summary here.
• Letter from the Coroner – 2021 Annual Report: The letters I wrote for the department’s annual report were a personal reflection on both highlights and disappointments of the year, never more so than during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. My last letter is provided here as a PDF. Full reports for this and previous years are available on the Chester County Coroner’s Office website.