Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

Overview

Board of Medicolegal Investigations

• The Director of the State Bureau of Investigation
• The State Commissioner of Health
• The Dean of the College of Medicine of the University of Oklahoma
• The President or Dean of the Oklahoma State University - Center for Health Sciences
• The President of the Oklahoma Bar Association
• The President of the Oklahoma Osteopathic Association
• The President of the Oklahoma State Medical Association
• A funeral director appointed by the Oklahoma State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors

  Administration

Powers and duties

• Violent deaths, whether apparently homicidal, suicidal or accidental including deaths due to thermal, chemical, electrical or radiational injury and deaths due to criminal abortions, whether self-induced or not.
• Deaths under suspicious, unusual or unnatural means.
• Deaths related to disease which might constitute a threat to public health.
• Deaths unattended by a licensed physician for fatal or potentially fatal illness.
• Deaths of persons after unexplained coma.
• Deaths that are medically unexpected and that occur during a therapeutic procedure.
• Deaths of any inmate occurring in any place of penal incarceration.
• Deaths of persons whose bodies are to be cremated, buried at sea, transported out of state or otherwise made ultimately unavailable for pathological study.

  Finance and staff