Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine
The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine is an institution focussed on forensic medicine, serving the community and the courts. The institute's statutory responsibilities are to provide independent forensic medical and scientific expertise to the justice system, tissue for transplantation, and to both teach and undertake research that will benefit the community.
| A/Prof Jennifer Schumann is Head of the Drug Intelligence Unit at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and lecturer in Monash University’s Department of Forensic Medicine. Dr Schumann's research examines the harms associated with drugs in the community to inform Australian public health policy and practice, with a particular focus on addiction, misuse and overdose of pharmaceutical and illicit substances. She utilises her experience in Forensic Toxicology and Public Health research to draw information from numerous different clinical and post-mortem data sources, providing translational research pertinent to current Australian trends in drug use. |
| A/Prof Dimitri Gerostamoulos is Head of Forensic Science & Chief Toxicologist at the VIFM. He is a Toxicologist, Pharmacologist and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. A/Prof Gerostamoulos has given evidence in more than 130 judicial cases in the field of forensic toxicology and pharmacology and has provided opinions on numerous other cases around Australia relating to the pharmacology of drugs, effects of drugs in drivers, and analytical and toxicological issues concerning drugs in hair, blood, urine and other matrices. His expertise includes alcohol-fuelled violence and synthetic drugs. A/Prof Gerostamoulos currently collaborates with MARC researchers on projects such as |