Forensic Pathology with Dr. Greg Davis | Part 1 of 3 | September 14, 2021
Forensic Pathology with Dr. Greg Davis | Part 2 of 3 | September 14, 2021
Forensic Pathology with Dr. Greg Davis | Part 3 of 3 | September 14, 2021
After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky, Greg
Davis obtained the MD degree from the University of Tennessee College of
Medicine, whereupon he returned to Kentucky for a clinical internship at the
University of Louisville. After Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency at U of
L, he remained in Louisville for his Forensic Pathology fellowship at the Office of
the Chief Medical Examiner.
He is certified by the American Board of Pathology
in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Forensic Pathology.
After postgraduate medical training, Dr Davis served as a faculty member at
Wake Forest University School of Medicine (formerly Bowman Gray School of
Medicine) from 1991-1996, where he was also county medical examiner (death
investigator) for Forsyth County and a regional forensic pathologist for the State
of North Carolina. In 1996, he returned to Kentucky, where he is now Professor
of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, serving, among other duties, as Director
of the Division of Forensic Consultation Services, Associate Director of the UK
HealthCare Autopsy Service, Advisor to the Residency Training Program, chair
of the Core Competency Committee, and pro bono autopsy and forensic
consultant to the Veterans Administration Medical Center.
From 1998 – 2005, he was Associate Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and
he now serves as pro bono consultant to the Office of the Kentucky State
Medical Examiner.
He is also Professor in the Department of Toxicology and
Cancer Biology of the College of Medicine, Interdisciplinary Fellow of the UK
College of Law, and has served on the Forensic Test Committee of the American
Board of Pathology and as Chair and Advisor to the Forensic Pathology
Committee, Chair of the Technology Assessment Committee, and member of the
Autopsy Committee of the College of American Pathologists, the leading
organization of board-certified pathologists, serving patients, pathologists, and
the public by fostering and advocating excellence in the practice of pathology
and laboratory medicine.
Dr Davis has testified as an expert in forensic medicine,
pathology, and toxicology in 18 states, US Federal Court, and the Republic of
Singapore.
He hosts a weekly radio spot, “Dr Greg Davis on Medicine,” on
WUKY 91.3 FM University of Kentucky Public Radio/NPR,
http://wuky.org/term/dr-greg-davis-medicine.
