Michael M. Baden, MD

Michael M. Baden, MD, is a physician, former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City and former Chief Forensic Pathologist for the New York State Police and has held professorial teaching appointments at Albert Einstein Medical School, Albany Medical College, New York University Medical School, New York Law School, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He was chairman of the Forensic Pathology Panel of the United States Congress Select Committee on Assassinations. Dr. Baden has been consulted as an expert in the investigations of the deaths of many government officials, celebrities, and other high-profile individuals, in many countries around the world. Dr. Baden was the host of HBO's Autopsy series for twelve years, has written two nonfiction books on forensic science: Unnatural Death, Confessions of a Medical Examiner and Dead Reckoning, the New Science of Catching Killers, and is co-author, with his wife, attorney Linda Kenney Baden, of two forensic thrillers, Remains Silent and Skeleton Justice. He is the forensic science contributor for FOX National News and is a reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine.