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Item Crime Scene Investigation: TV versus Reality(2013-08-01) ; Warren, Joseph; Budowle, Bruce; Eisenberg, Arthur J.; Pullin, Mike; Milligan, JessieJoseph Warren, Bruce Budowle and Arthur J. Eisenberg speak about crime scene investigation and forensic science as portrayed in popular television. They discuss how the shows distort and overstate the ways in which forensic scientists help solve crimes and identify victims, and they describe potential impacts on jurors' expectations. They also appreciate how these shows drive curiosity and bring better grant funding and more students to forensic science.Item Disciplining Physicians: Factors that Influence Severity of Punishment by a State Board: An Investigation fo the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, 1989-1998(2001-05-01) Gustowski, Sharon; Sharon ClarkPhysician conduct and competence is increasingly debated in today’s health care environment, an environment that is influenced by managed care, medical malpractice, and a more informed consumer population demanding a higher quality of medical care. Revocation of physician licenses has increased, and it has been noted that physicians older than 40 years received more disciplinary actions that their younger counterparts. Studies of disciplined physicians have been done in California, Rhode Island, Ohio, and New York. Additional studies have also been done investigating inappropriate prescribing practices and sex-related offenses committed by physicians. None of these studies identified risk factors that influenced the severity of punishment given by a state board. Additionally, data concerning osteopathic physicians was scant and not included. An important issue regarding physician conduct and competence is the comparability between osteopathic (DO) and allopathic (MD) physicians. Moreover, it is also important to know which, if any, factors influence the decision for a severe punishment (such as revocation or suspension of a license). In Texas, both DOs and MDs are licensed to practice medicine and, when warranted, disciplined by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners (TSBME). The TSBME is the agency authorized to license and discipline physicians and other health care professionals as mandated by the Medical Practice Act. The current TSBME is composed of 9 MDs, 3 Dos, and 3 public representatives and all members are appointed by the governor for 6-year terms. Data obtained from the TSBME shows for each year from 1989 to 1998, Dos were more likely to be disciplined than MDs (figure 1). Whether or not this represents a truly great risk for Dos to be disciplined by the TSBME is unknown. Therefore, it is important to know whether the same standard of care is applied to Dos and MDs and given a compromise of that standard, whether Dos and MDs are treated equally and fairly. The purpose of this study is to determine which factors, including the type of degree a physician holds, influenced the severity of punishment given to physicians by the TSBME from 1989-1998.Item DNA-Prokids: Forensic Genetics and Human Trafficking(2013-08-01) Eisenberg, Arthur J.DNA - ProKids is a program jointly run by the Universidad de Granada (UGR) and the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC). The Goal of DNA - Prokids is to return trafficked individuals, specifically young people and children to their families in their home countries. The FBI estimates that there are more than 100,000 children and teens in the United States that are being trafficked in the sex trade. Since Texas is a portal into the U.S. for Central and South America, the state government has been proactive in trying to address the problem. Part of the solution is the partnership between UNTHSC and UGR to work on DNA-Prokids. DNA-Prokids is an international humanitarian effort to help identify missing children and if possible to reunite abducted and homeless children with their parents, and to provide law enforcement agencies a scientific methodology to help deter the human trafficking of children. The organization also works with law enforcement to ensure that the children are returned to their families or placed in safe environments. Since this video, 697 parent-child associations have been made, with the vast majority of those children being returned to their families. Out of those 697, approximately 12 children have not been able to return home due to crime, violence, and drugs in their biological families. DNA-Prokids has also detected and avoided 221 illegal adoptions, where the woman presenting the baby to be adopted was not the child's biological mother. The success of the program deters human trafficking and can prevent child abuse and slave labor by increasing coordination between efforts like DNA-Prokids and authorities.Item Dr. Arthur Eisenberg(2013-08-01) Eisenberg, Arthur J.; Milligan, JessieItem Dr. John Planz(2013-08-01)John V. Planz holds a B.S degree in Biology and Zoology (double major) from the State University of New York (Oswego, NY), a M.S. degree in behavioral ecology from Shippensburg University (Shippensburg, PA) and a Ph.D. in molecular evolutionary genetics and population genetics from the University of North Texas (Denton, TX). Dr. Planz studied as a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Section of Mammals (Pittsburgh, PA) in mammalian phylogenetic systematics. Dr. Planz entered the forensics field in 1993 at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas, TX. He later served as the Director of Identity Testing at GeneScreen, Inc. in Dallas, TX and Biosynthesis, Inc. in Lewisville TX adding mitochondrial DNA typing and SNP development to the testing performed by those laboratories. Dr. Planz joined the faculty of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth in January 2000 were he serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics and is the Associate Director of the UNT Center for Human Identification.Item Dr. Joseph Warren(2013-08-02)Item How do you get a job in Forensic Science?(2013-08-01)Item Other Applications of Forensic Genetics(2013-08-01)Item Teamwork(2013-08-01)