ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT  

Department of Forensic Sciences

The Department of Forensic Sciences functions within the Medical School of University of Crete since 1988.  

It provides a routine  postmortem investigation service for the eastern half of Crete and official consultations upon requirement in the rest of Greece.  It is referal laboratory for all toxicological  analyses in postmortem and clinical samples of the entire Crete and in selective cases of the continental Greece.  

The Department possesses histology, toxicology, radiology and DNA analysis facilities. 

It includes the Laboratories of Forensic Pathology and Toxicology and soon the new Units of Forensic Anthropology-Archeology and Forensic Genetics.

It provides undergraduate teaching in Forensic Pathology, Medical Ethics, Toxicology and Hyperbaric-Underwater Medicine (selective). 

It participates in graduate teaching and supervises the research of graduate students.

The Department also enjoys close links with the Police Headquarters in Crete and Athens organizing educational seminars for Police Officers and offers teaching for the local School of Police Officers.

Since 1998 it offers postgraduate training for the members of the Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Tirana, Albania.

There are scientific affiliations with:

• Medical Examiner Office of Philadelphia

• Medical Examiner Office of Detroit

• Medical Examiner Office of New York (state)

• Department of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, University of Chieti, Italy

• Toxicology Center of Antverpen, Belgium

• Toxicology Center of Gaineville, University of Florida, Shands University Hospital

• University of Mendelejev, Moscow, Russia

• Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow, Russia

• Servizio Polizia Scientifico, Rome, Italy