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Michael Thali

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Michael J Thali, MD, EMBA, full Professor at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and Honorary Skou Professor at Aarhus University, as well as former Professor of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Bern (Switzerland), is a co-founder of the Virtopsy® Project and active advocator of virtual autopsy (www.virtopsy.com). He was a resident in radiology at the Institute of Radiology at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and completed a fellowship at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington DC (USA). He is editor of the textbook on virtual autopsy The Virtopsy® Approach (2009) and the latest edition of Brogdon’s Forensic Radiology (2010). He has co-authored over 500 papers on forensic radiology and virtual autopsy. Michael Thali is the past-chairman of the ISFRI (www.isfri.org) Founder Board and Editor in Chief of the JOFRI (www.jofri.com). See Wikipedia entry.

Contact

University of Zurich
Institute of Forensic Medicine Zurich
CH-8057 Zurich
Switzerland

Email of course director: michael.thali@virtopsy.com
Email of course administration: virtopsy@irm.uzh.ch

+41 44 635 5611

Current Virtopsy® team

Forensic Medicine and Imaging

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Visitors, Research Students and Research Fellows

  • Shelby Scott (research student, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) (publications)
  • Thera McAvoy (research student, Cranfield University, UK) ~ (publications)
  • India Laborde (research student, Cranfield University, UK) ~ (publications)
  • Katherine Edwards (research student, Cranfield University, UK) (publications)
  • Bed Edgell (research student, Cranfield University, UK) (publications)
  • Colleen Kelly (research student, Cranfield University, UK) ~ (publications)
  • Giannina Giugni (Masters student, University of Zurich) ~ (publications)
  • Eddie Surer (Masters student, University of Zurich) (publications)
  • Marina Elliott (research student, Simon Fraser University, Canada) (publications)
  • Saiful Nizam Abdul Rashid (publications)

Former Members

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