The 2025 MAME Annual Conference will be held Friday, October 3rd, and Saturday, October 4th, at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Registration is open and the preliminary agenda is available below!
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Our featured speaker is Michael Staley, Ph.D., the suicide prevention research coordinator at the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner. Dr. Staley conducts near-real-time surveillance of suicide mortality, conducts equivocal death investigations, and suicide mortality research. He also oversees other epidemiological work, including unintentional drug overdose surveillance. Dr. Staley is currently working on the Utah Youth Suicide Research Project, a major study on teens who died by suicide in Utah, is part of the Utah Suicide Mortality Research Study (USMRS), and a board member of the National Association of Retrospective Fatality Analysts. Dr. Staley holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Utah Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine and earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of New Hampshire.
This conference is designed for medical examiners, deputy medical examiners, and additional medical examiner personnel including medicolegal death investigators, forensic scientists, administrators, and other professionals working within or affiliated with a county.
Book your room now at our conference rate with code: MAME10325. To book online, choose Book Now and change Promo code to Group code and enter the code above. You can also call Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort at (877) 232-4532 (option #1 for Reservations). Please be sure to refer to our organization when booking to ensure you receive the discounted group rate. This discounted room rate is only available until September 19, 2025 so please book soon!
If you're unable to secure a room at Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, there are several other local options, including the Holiday Inn & Suites, the Hampton Inn, Soaring Eagle Waterpark & Hotel, and The Retreat at Soaring Eagle.
Preliminary Agenda:
Friday, October 3rd, 2025
2025 Cold Weather Fatality Management Full-Scale Exercise: What We Learned
Jessica Gould, BSc & Michelle Fox, D-ABMDI; MDHHS & UMH Sparrow Forensic Pathology
Intersection of Forensic Pathology & Psychiatry
Haley Getzen, MD, MPH; Center for Forensic Psychiatry
Navigating the Nuances: When Blurring Jurisdictional Lines Compromise the Integrity of Death Certificates, Permits and Investigations
Michelle Fox, D-ABMDI & Brigit Pendred; UMH Sparrow Forensic Pathology & MDHHS
Facial Recognition and the Unidentified
TJ Wrinkle; Michigan State Police
From Removal to Refrigeration: Navigating Michigan's New Standards
Jared Rozycki, Michigan Funeral Directors Association
Beyond the Mind: Linking Psychiatric Disorders to Pulmonary Thromboembolism
Omar Rayes, MD; Wayne County MEO
Highway Suicides
Amanda Bukovick, UMH Sparrow Forensic Pathology
A Unique Investigation and Recovery in a Michigan Bog
Josephine Cowles; Michigan State University
Spatial Analysis of Suspected Fatal Overdose Locations
Jason Goldstick, PhD; University of Michigan
Neuromyelitis Optica in a 70-Year-Old Female: A Discussion of Autopsy Findings and Considerations for Forensic Pathologists
Casey Schukow, DO; Corewell Health Beaumont (Hendrix Travel Awardee)
Keynote Presentation
Michael Staley, PhD; Utah OME
Saturday, October 4th, 2025
Death Registration Updates
Jeff Duncan, PhD; MDHHS
Look for Drugs! A Guide for MEIs
Jenn Kibby, D-ABMDI; WMed MEO
ABMDI Overview
Bethany Smith, MPA, D-ABMDI; ABMDI
After a Suicide: Investigative, Cultural and Emotional Impacts on Families
Haley Scott, MA, LLMSW; Wayne Co MEO (Hendrix Travel Awardee)
MACPRA, NAGPRA and Medicolegal Offices
William Johnson, Chairman; Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance/Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan
What we Missed, What we Must Do: Preventing Domestic Violence Fatalities Through System Review
Karissa Pelletier, PhD; Wayne State University
Review of Suicide in the Pediatric Population
Elizabeth Cline, MD, PhD; Michigan Medicine
Tracing the Legacy of SIDS/SUID: Historical Insights and Modern Implications for Adjudication and Prevention
Savannah Lusk, PhD; Baylor College of Medicine
Infant Death Field Investigations
Ashleigh Butler, D-ABMDI; WMed MEO
A Rare Case of Suicide by Powder-Actuated Nail Gun
Vasudevan Mahalingham, DO, MS; Wayne Co MEO
Manner of Death Trends in Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office
Teresa Nguyen, MD; Wayne Co MEO
Optimizing Public Health Funding: The Role of ME Offices in Opioid Settlement Disbursements
Amanda Wallace, D-ABMDI & Lisa Kaspriak, UMH Sparrow Forensic Pathology & MMMEG
Classifying Manner of Death in Pediatric Firearm Fatalities: Suicide vs. Accident
Lindsay Dean, BS; Wayne Co MEO
Take advantage of the membership rate for the annual conference: Join MAME!
Please direct any questions to us at: mame@michiganme.org!
