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CFSRE Staff’s AAFS Workshops, Presentations, and Posters

Poster

Tuesday

TimePlatform NumberTitleSpeaker
5:00-6:30PM N/A Tracking and Disseminating Data on Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) through NPS Discovery’s Drug Early Warning System Alex Krotulski
Alex Krotulski, PhD

Sara Walton
Sara Walton, MS


Friday


TimePlatform NumberTitleSpeaker
11:30AM-1:00PM Y29 (Toxicology) The Evaluation of Novel Psychoactive Substance Drug Loss From Storage in Serum Separator Tubes Devin Kress
Devin Kress, BS


Workshops

Tuesday
TimePlatform NumberTitleSpeakers
W26 Taming the Wild West of Workflows for Opioids: Emerging and Controversial Drug Threats Reiders Michael
Michael F Rieders,
Session Co-Chair
1:40-2:05PM W26 Taking the Lab into the Field—Challenges and Tradeoffs for the Point of Use Testing Barry Logan
Barry Logan, PhD
4:15-4:45PM W26 Legal Questions Arising from Changes to Forensic Workflows Involving New Technologies MJ Menendez
MJ Menendez, JD

Presentations

Tuesday

TimePlatform NumberTitleSpeaker
1:50-2:15PM N/A Assessment of the Contribution to Drug-Impaired Driving from Emerging and Undertested Drugs Mandi Mohr
Mandi Mohr, MSFS


Thursday


TimePlatform NumberTitleSpeaker
10:00-10:45AM L41 The Continually Expanding World of Designer Benzodiazepines Donna PapsunDonna Papsun, MS
1:00-1:15PM L46

An Unusual Case of Misrepresented Cocaine Powder That Resulted in Fatal and Non-Fatal Intoxications Involving the Novel Synthetic Opioid Etodesnitazene

Alex Krotulski
Alex Krotulski, PhD
1:45-2:00PM L49 Adverse Effects of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals as Toxic Adulterating Agents in Illicit Drug Deaths Barry Logan
Barry Logan, PhD
4:15-4:30PM B85 The Development and Validation of a Quantitative Method for the Analysis of Fentanyl Containing “Dope” Samples Josh DeBordJoshua DeBord, PhD
4:30-5:00PM G13 The Academy Standards Board (ASB) Standard Compliant Toxicology Report Content as a Tool to Support Informed Pre-Charging Communication and Testimony Planning MJ Menendez
MJ Menendez, JD
5:00-5:15PM B88 The Development and Validation of a Method for the Differentiation of Hemp and Marijuana by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) Sarah Shuda
Sarah Shuda, MSFS


Friday

TimePlatform NumberTitleSpeaker
9:30-9:45AM L58 Impaired Driving Drug Trends and Stop Limit Testing Evaluation Grace Cieri
Grace Cieri, MSFT
10:00-10:15AM B157

The Conversion of Cannabidiol to Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-9-THC) During Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) Analysis

Sarah Shuda
Sarah Shuda, MSFS
10:30-10:45AM B159 The Evaluation of Fentanyl and Fentanyl-Related Compounds on United States Paper Currency Matthew HewesMatthew Hewes, MS
11:30-11:45AM L65 Toxicological Surveillance of Clinical Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department After Suspected Opioid Overdoses: Geographical Trends and Impacts on Forensic Toxicology

FSF Emerging Forensic Scientist Award Oral Presentation
Sara Walton
Sara Walton, MS
2:30-2:45PM B142 An investigation of Forensic Applications for Nanoplate-Based Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Mirna Ghemwari
Mirna Ghemrawi, PhD