Celebrating One Year of the Provincial Forensic Pathology Unit Mobile Team
by Communications and Engagement
(From L-R): Jennifer Wintermans, Vice President, Quality and Corporate Affairs, TBRHSC; Dr. Rhonda Crocker Ellacott, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), TBRHSC, and CEO, Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute; Dr. Liza Boucher, Medical Manager/Forensic Pathologist, PFPU; Georgia Carr, Manager of Laboratory Services, TBRHSC; Maureen Currie, Autopsy Services Coordinator, PFPU; Tenecia Baptiste-Carmichael, A/Executive Officer, OFPS; Charles Engelen, A/Autopsy Services Coordinator, PFPU; Bonita Anders, Sr. Manager, Quality, Information Management and Post Mortem Services, OFPS; Deanna Hicklin, Quality and Safety Compliance Coordinator, Laboratory Services, TBRHSC.The Ontario Forensic Pathology Service (OFPS) and Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) proudly recognize an important milestone — the one-year anniversary of the Provincial Forensic Pathology Unit (PFPU) Mobile Team initiative for medicolegal autopsies from Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario. Through this innovative partnership, we are able to continue to perform high-quality medicolegal autopsies in Thunder Bay when a PFPU-staffed Mobile Team is present one week per month. We have heard that the local service is highly meaningful to families, Indigenous communities, stakeholders, partners and our staff. The interim initiative will remain in place as the OFPS and Office of the Chief Coroner continue to explore a more permanent solution.
