Join us November 6, 2021 at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in the Huntsville Airport for an all day CE event.
Dr. Richard Weems is a native of Birmingham, Alabama and received his DMD from the University of Alabama School of Dentistry in 1977. He returned to UAB to earn a Master’s Degree in Dental Radiology in 1984, and has been a full-time dental educator since that time. Currently, he is Associate Professor and Director of the Maxillofacial CBCT Imaging Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry.
Dr. Weems also served as a dental consultant to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences from 1990 until 2013 and currently serves as the Chief Forensic Dentist for the Jefferson County (Alabama) Coroner/Medical Examiner’s Office. He has investigated over 250 cases involving criminal human bite mark analysis and victim identification through dental remains resulting from homicide and accidental death. He is also the Region IV Dental Section Leader of the national mass disaster mortuary team, DMORT, and was deployed to the World Trade Center, as well as, Hurricanes Katrina and Ike to aid in victim identification. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Odontology. He was also recently elected as Section Chair of the Odontology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Dr. Weems has made numerous invited presentations and has published several chapters in textbooks relating to dental radiology, forensic odontology, forensic radiography, and co-edited the recently published, ASFO Manual of Forensic Odontology, 5 th Edition by CRC Press.
Dr. Lewis earned his dental degree from the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Dentistry in 1985. He maintained a general dentistry practice in Madison, Alabama from 1986 – 2017; and, currently is a forensic dental educator and consultant.
Dr. Lewis completed the Fellowship in Forensic Odontology from the Center for Education and Research in Forensics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2001. As a forensic dentist, he assisted in victim identification in New York following the World Trade Center attack; and since 2003, has served as a consultant to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences (ADFS) and volunteer to the Alabama Office of Emergency Preparedness in relation to its mass disaster response group. In 2017, he became the dental consultant to the Knox County Regional Forensic Center in Tennessee and an Assistant Professor and Director of Forensic Dentistry in the Department of General Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, Tennessee where he oversees a Fellowship in Forensic Dentistry and a Master of Science in Forensic Dentistry.
Dr. Lewis is a Fellow of the Odontology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS); and, a Member of the American Society of Forensic Odontology (ASFO) where he has served on its Board of Governors and as President of the organization in 2012. Dr. Lewis became board certified by the American Board of Forensic Odontology (ABFO) in 2008. As a Diplomate of the ABFO, he has served as member and Chair of the Dental Age Assessment Committee, the Certification and Examination Committee, the Bitemark Evidence and Patterned Injury Committee, and ABFO President in 2020. He recently completed a six-year appointed to the Odontology Subcommittee, Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Dr. Lewis has authored several forensic peer reviewed articles and textbook chapters; and, co-edited the textbook, Forensic Dentistry: Principles and Practice.
6 CE Credits will be given for the day.