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NOTICE: A meeting of the Postmortem Examiners Commission will be held Friday, February 4 at 11:30 a.m. at the OCME, 900 W. Baltimore St 21223. For more information, call 410-333-3225.
To attend the meeting remotely, go to https:// meet.google.com/dvh-mozm-cae or call 901-866-5918‬ PIN: ‪219 981 144‬#. The agenda to the meeting is here. A portion of the meeting may be closed to the public.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) is the statewide agency designated by law to investigate deaths that are sudden and unexpected, result from injury, occur under unexplained or suspicious circumstances, or when a person is not attended by a physician.
Along with the medicolegal responsibility to determine cause and manner of death, OCME serves a critical public health role by identifying injury trends and emerging infectious diseases that may pose risks to Marylanders.