The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists

TIAFTTIAFT was founded in London April 21, 1963. The founding meeting elected Dr. E.C.G. Clarke (UK) as President, Dr. Alan S. Curry (UK) as Secretary, Dr. Ian Holden (UK) as Treasurer and Dr. Fred Rieders (USA) as Newsletter Editor. The first newsletter was edited in November 1963 by Rieders, and from the very beginning it bore the name "Bulletin of the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists". It was a 3-page A4 size blue spirit duplicated leaflet which contained four case notes. The analytical methods relied much on TLC, spectrophotometry and spot tests. The first note was by L.W. Bradford (USA) giving advice on how to calibrate UV spectro-photometers with mercury vapour.

Nowadays TIAFT groups over 1400 members from all regions of the world who are actively engaged in analytical toxicology or allied areas with the aims of this association are to promote cooperation and coordination of efforts among members and to encourage research in forensic toxicology.

TIAFT members come from the police force, medical examiners and coroners' laboratories, horseracing and sports doping laboratories, hospitals, departments of legal medicine, pharmacology, pharmacy and toxicology.

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TIAFT Executive Committee for 2011-2013 is:

  • TIAFT President
    Alain G. Verstraete, MD
    Laboratory of clinical Biology-Toxicology, Ghent University Hospital
    De Pintelaan 185 - B-9000 Gent, Belgium
    e-mail: alain.verstraete@ugent.be
     
  • TIAFT President Elect
    Chung, Hee-Sun, Ph.D
    Director General, National Forensic Service,
    331-1 Shinwol-dong, Yangcheon-Ku, Seoul, Korea
    e-mail: hschung7@korea.kr
     
  • TIAFT Past President
    Olaf H. Drummer PhD(med) ARCPA MRACI CChem
    Head (Forensic Scientific Services), Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine
    Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine
    Monash University, 57-83 Kavanagh Street
    Southbank, 3006, AUSTRALIA
    e-mail: olaf@vifm.org
     
  • TIAFT Secretary
    Daniel S. Isenschmid, PhD, DABFT
    NMS Labs
    3701 Welsh Road
    Willow Grove, PA 19090, USA
    e-mail: pointetox@aol.com
     
  • TIAFT Treasurer
    Marc LeBeau, PhD
    Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Laboratory
    2501 Investigation Parkway, Quantico, Virginia 22135, USA
    e-mail: marc.lebeau@ic.fbi.gov
     
  • TIAFT Board Members
    Carmen Jurado, PhD
    National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences
    Chemistry Department
    University of Sevilla, Sevilla (Spain)

    Robert Kronstrand, PhD
    National Board of Forensic Medicine
    Department of Forensic Toxicology
    University of Linkoping, Linkoping (Sweden)
    e-mail: robert.kronstrand@rmv.se

    Univ.-Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans H. Maurer
    Head, Department of Experimental and Clinical Toxicology
    Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
    Saarland University, D-66421 Homburg/Saar (Germany)
    e-mail: hans.maurer@uks.eu