B.A.Sc., Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind., 1967.
M.D., University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill., 1971.

Residency/Fellowship: Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, N.Y. (anatomic pathology), 1972-1973; University of Texas Health Science, Dallas, Texas (anatomic pathology), 1973-1974; Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences, Dallas, Texas (forensic pathology), 1974-1976.

Certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology/Forensic Pathology.

Navy Regional Medical Center, Camp Lejeune, N.C., staff pathologist, 1976-1978; East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, N.C., Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology, 1977-1978; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, Assistant Professor of Pathology, 1978-1980; Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office, Cleveland, Ohio, associate pathologist/deputy coroner, 1978-1980; University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, Assistant Professor of Pathology, 1980-1984; Associate Professor, 1984-1986; Hamilton County Coroner’s Office, Cincinnati, Ohio, deputy coroner, 1980-1986; State of New Mexico, Santa Fe, N.M., assistant chief medical investigator, 1987-1991; medical investigator, 1987-2021; chief medical investigator, 1991-2014; University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, N.M., Associate Professor of Pathology, 1987-1991; Professor, 1991-2021.

Appointed to the staff of Mayo Clinic, 2021; Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2024-present.