Professor Roger Byard

Telephone	+61 8 8313 4274
Position	George Richard Marks Professor
Email	roger.byard@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 5384
Building	Medical School North
Floor/Room	3 21
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Pathology

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Biography/ Background

Professor Roger Byard is the Marks Professor of Pathology at the University of Adelaide, and a Senior Specialist Forensic Pathologist at Forensic Science SA in Adelaide, Australia. He qualified in medicine in Australia in 1978 (University of Tasmania MBBS, BMedSci) and became a licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada in 1982 (LMCC). He was a Foundation Member of the Australian College of Legal Medicine and a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (FFFLM), and has a certification in Family Medicine from the Canadian College of Family Physicians (CCFP). He has a specific interest in sudden infant and childhood death and has published or has in press over 450 papers, 40 chapters and several books. He coedited the four volume Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine. (Elsevier/Academic Press, Amsterdam, 2005), wrote Sudden Death in the Young (3rd ed). (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010), and is the Editor-in-Chief of Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology.

Publications

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Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Medicine and medical research
Expertise	forensic pathology, SIDS, child safety, paediatric pathology

Entry last updated: Sunday, 5 Feb 2012

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