Education
MD, Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo, 1989
Biography
Francisco J Diaz, MD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology.
Research
Dr. Diaz is a co-editor-of & contributing-author-to Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of death, 5th Edition. He is the author of numerous peer reviewed publications on a variety of topics related to forensic and anatomic pathology, in addition to countless presentations and speaking engagements.
Teaching
- Forensic Pathology
- Anatomic Pathology
- Autopsy Pathology
Publications
- The Impact of Skin Color on the Recognition of Blunt Force Injuries Santiago, Christian J ; Weedn, Victor W ; Diaz, Francisco J The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology, 2022,Vol.43 (3),p.220-224.
- Loss of nuclear basophilic staining as a postmortem interval marker. Alabbasi, Samah F. MBBS, MFS; Viramontes, Ariel C. MD; Diaz, Francisco J. MD, Weedn, Victor W. MD, JD. American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, published ahead of print. December 2021.
- Autopsies in suspected SARS-CoV-2. Journal of Legal Medicine, Spain. May 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reml.2020.05.002 Rafael Bañon Gonzalez, Silvia Carnicero Caceres, Ma Paz Suarez-Mier, Francisco J. Diaz.
- Comparison of the causes of death and wounding patterns in urban firearm-related violence and civilian public mass shooting events. Maghami S, Hendrix C, Matecki M, Mahendran K, Amdur R, Mitchell R, Diaz F, Estroff J, Smith ER, Shapiro G, Sarani B.J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 Feb;88(2):310-313. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002470.
- An 8-year retrospective study on suicides in Washington, DC. Cuchara, B and Diaz FJ. The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, March 2020- Volume 41, issue 1. P 18-26.
- Nonrheumatoid Fibrinous Pericarditis: A Medical Examiner Algorithm for the Diagnosis of Viral Myocarditis and Use of Molecular Diagnostic Techniques. Gupta, J., Furman, J., Kesha, J., Diaz, F, & Schmidt, CJ. The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, 40 (1):77-80, March 2019.
- Cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis deaths in Wayne County, Michigan. A 20-year retrospective study. Milad Webb, Kyle Conway, Martin Ishikawa and Francisco Diaz. Acad Forensic Pathol. September, 2018.
- National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) position paper: Recommendations for the definition, investigation, postmortem examination and reporting of deaths in custody. Mitchell, R. Diaz, F. Goldfogel, G. Fajardo, M. Fiore, S. Henson, T. Jorden, M. Kelly, S. Luzi, S. Quinn, M. Wolf, D. Acad Forensic Pathol. 2017 7(4): 604-618