SWGDVI Officers and Board Members

The SWGDVI Board is composed of permanent member agencies/organizations and individual members.  Permanent member agencies/organization are entitled to appoint representatives with subject matter expertise in the broad DVI discipline.  Individual members are selected based on individual qualification, not by agency affiliation. 

Board member appointments and elections shall be managed by a Membership Committee led by the Vice Chair.  Please refer to the SWGDVI Bylaws, Article III for additional information regarding membership.  If you have additional questions regarding membership, please contact the SWGDVI Vice Chair. 
Permanent Member Agencies/Organizations
Department of Justice/Federal Bureau of Investigation
    FBI Laboratory     
        Richard Marx
        Aaron Uhle (Secretary):  secretary@swgdvi.org  
        Timothy Zolandz
    Office for Victim Assistance  
        Kyle C. Scherrer

National Transportation Safety Board 
    Transportation Disaster Assistance Division
        Elias Kontanis (Chair):  chair@swgdvi.org    
        Paul Sledzik  

Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response 
    Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams
        Edward Kilbane 

Department of Defense, Armed Forces Medical Examiner System 
    Laura Regan 
    Mark Wadhams

National Association of Medical Examiners 
    Andrew M. Baker
    Suzanne Utley

International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners
    Frank DePaolo
    Robert H. Shaw

INTERPOL DVI Steering Group
    Helena Ras
    Carlos Palhares

International Commission on Missing Persons
    Thomas J. Parsons

International Committee of the Red Cross
    Morris Tidball-Binz
    Shuala Drawdy **ALTERNATE**
Individual Members
Robert Barsley
Louisiana State University School of Dentistry
New Orleans, LA

Dennis Dirkmaat
Mercyhurst University - Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute
Erie, PA

Eric Emery
National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC

Lyle Konigsberg
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL

Dennis McGowan
University of Tennessee - SAC International 
Knoxville, TN

Yvonne Milewski
Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner 
Hauppauge, NY

Gary W. Reinecke
Boston University
Boston, MA

David Senn
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, TX

Victor Weedn (Vice Chair):  vicechair@swgdvi.org
The George Washington University
Washington, DC

Jason Wiersema
Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences
Houston, TX

Recording Secretary
Natalie Uhl 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL