Vilma Pinchi, President

Vilma Pinchi is an Associate Professor of Legal Medicine in the  Department of Anatomy , Histology and Legal Medicine, University of  Firenze. She completed her dental studies at University of Perugia cum  laude  in 1993, her  PhD in Medical Forensic Sciences cum laude  in  1999 at University of Brescia and Master in Bioethics in  Clinical  Daily Activity at University of Firenze in 2009.Since 1993 she  has  worked as private practitioner and is  regularly appointed  as expert  witness in criminal and civil  Courts both in cases involving body  identification, age ascertainment and dental professional liability. 
She is the Secretary of Pro.O.F. (Forensic Odontology Project) and the course organizer of the annual post-graduate Master in Forensic Odontology at University of Firenze . She is co-author of  forensic odontology  and legal medicine textbooks, has written several  scientific articles and lectures  nationally and internationally. 

Hrvoje Brkic, Vice President 

Hrvoje Brkić was born on August 12th 1963 in Zagreb. In 1988 he graduated from the School of Dental Medicine University of Zagreb. Ever since December 1998 he has been working at the Department of Dental Anthropology. He has been teaching dental morphology and courses in forensic dentistry in the graduate and post graduate studies.

Francesco Pradella, Secretary

Private dental practitioner and forensic odontologist since 1985. He took a MD degree at the University of Padua in 1981, a DDS degree at the University of Verona in 1984 and a MSc degree in forensic odontology at the University of Florence in 2008.
He has been involved in damage evaluation cases and in forensic odontology cases since 1985 as a consultant for insurance companies, private or public institutions. He regularly acts as expert consultant in criminal and civil court cases involving the different fields of forensic odontology. He has attended many courses and delivered papers and oral presentations related to forensic odontology in Italy and abroad, and has published scientific articles in national journals. Member of many scientific societies and among them SIMLA (Italian Society of Legal Medicine) and Pro.O.F (Forensic Odontology Project).

francesco.pradella@gmail.com

 Patrick Thevissen, Treasurer, Editor JFOS  

Patrick Thevissen finished his dental studies in 1980 at the Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium and started a private dental practice in 1981. In 2005 he obtained his  master's degree (Msc) in forensic odontology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Since 2007 he has worked in the Department of Forensic Odontology at the School of Dentistry, Oral Pathology and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and teaches forensic odontology to international post graduate students. In 2009 he started his Phd thesis at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on the research topic: Non-destructive forensic odontological age estimations revisited. 

denthepa@telenet.be

Stefano Garatti, Webmaster

He is a private dental practitioner in Monza (Italy). He is also the Clinical Supervisor of Department of Dentistry at the “A.O. of Desio and Vimercate” near Milan.
He took a DDS degree at the University of Milan in 1986 and a MSc degree in forensic odontology at the University of Florence in 2008.
He cooperate with Special Care Dentistry at the hospital of Carate Brianza, near Milan, and he is the chief of Special Care Orthodontics  in the same hospital.
Forensic Odontologist since 1997, he has been involved in damage evaluation and in forensic odontology cases as a consultant for insurance companies, private or public institutions.  He regularly acts as expert consultant in civil court cases involving the forensic odontology concern, especially dental professional liability.
He is co-author of  Forensic Odontology  and Special Care Dentistry  textbooks, has written several  scientific articles and lectures  nationally and internationally.
Since 2006 member of the board and webmaster of Pro.O.F (Forensic Odontology Project).

s.garatti@studiogaratti.it

Ruediger Lessig, Newsletter editor 

He is director of the Institute of of Legal Medicine of the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenbergof and Memberof the Senate of the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg. He is president of the German Society of Forensic Odontostomatology.

He graduated in Stomatology in Volgograd/Russia in 1981 and in medicine at the University of Leipzig/Germany in 1983, Specialist of legal medicine at the Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Leipzig in 1987.

He wrote  more than 100 publications of scientific work in forensic medicine, forensic genetics and forensic odonto-stomatology, and book chapters in international Journals.

Member of several scientific organizations - ISFG (Intarnational Society of Forensic Genetics), German Society of Legal Medicine, German Society of Stomatology, German Association of Forensic Odonto-Stomatology.

ruediger.lessig@medizin.uni-halle.de

John Rosie, Assistant Editor of JFOS

He is employed by Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board as Assistant Clinical Director, North Wales Community Dental Service. He qualified as a dentist at the University of Liverpool in 1970 (BDS) and obtained an MSc in Forensic Dentistry from the University of Cardiff in 2000 under the tutelage of Professor David Whittaker. He is Secretary of the Committee of the British Association for Forensic Odontology (BAFO) and is a member of UK Disaster Victim Identification team (UKDVI), he is also a past President and current Secretary of the Liverpool Odontological Society.

He  has experience dealing with bite mark analysis and identification of the deceased by reference to the dentition. Since 1998 he has been involved as an expert witness in many cases involving both bite marks and issues of identification; He was a member of the UKDVI team deployed to Thailand following the tsunami in December 2004.

Accredited Forensic Dentist on the database of the UK police Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). He lecture on Forensic Odontology to post-Graduate Societies and Academic Institutions.

john_rosie@lineone.net

Election Committee

Dr. Sang Seob Lee - Korean Committee of Forensic Odontology/Dental Jurisprudence (South Korea)

Dr. John Rosie - British Association of Forensic Odontology (United Kingdom)

Dr. Giulia Vitale - Forensic Odontology Project (Italy)