RICHARD BYRON COLLINS CONSULTANT FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE RICHARD BYRON COLLINS CONSULTANT FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST

2 2 PERSONAL DETAILS NAME: RICHARD BYRON COLLINS ADDRESS: PO BOX 3072, GEELONG WEST, VIC DATE OF BIRTH: OCTOBER 31, 1944 PLACE OF BIRTH: CITIZENSHIP: SECONDARY EDUCATION: MELBOURNE AUSTRALIAN THE GEELONG COLLEGE, GEELONG UNIVERSITY TRAINING AND DEGREES 1969 Bachelor of Medical Science (Hons) Monash University 1970 Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Monash University 1979 Fellow, The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (Special Forensic) PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS Junior Resident Medical Officer The Geelong Hospital Anatomical Pathology Registrar Department of Pathology The Geelong Hospital Assistant Pathologist Department of Pathology The Geelong Hospital Consultant Pathologist Clinical Diagnostic Pathology

3 Visiting Associate, Anatomical Pathology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital Pathologist, Analytical Reference Laboratories PRESENT APPOINTMENT Resigned from the Geelong Hospital March 1985, in order to establish a Private Consultancy practice in Forensic Pathology. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Demonstrator (Dental) Department of Pathology, Lecturer (Part-time) (Forensic Medicine) Department of Pathology, Lecturer (Part-time) (Forensic Medicine) Department of Pathology & Immunology, Monash University Lecturer-in-Charge (Acting) Third Year Pathology Faculty of Dental Science Associate, Department of Community Health, Clinical Teacher (Forensic Medicine), Department of Pathology & Immunology, Monash University Lecturer (Part-time) Department of Pathology,

4 Lecturer (Part-time) in Pathology, Faculty of Dental Science, Senior Lecturer (Temporary) (Part-time) Department of Community Medicine, Melbourne Lecturer (Part-time), Department Community Medicine, RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 4 Whilst employed in the Department of Pathology at the Geelong Hospital, actively involved in a number of the research projects undertaken by Professor Vernon Plueckhahn, especially in the areas of: The Effects of Hexachlorophene on Neonates The Epidemiology of Alcohol in the Community with particular reference to its Causative Effects in Drowning and PUBLISHED WORKS The Documentation of Post-mortem Biochemistry in various body fluids including alcohol levels in Vitreous Humor, Bile, Blood and Urine V.D. PLUECKHAHN, R.B. COLLINS & B.A. BALLARD Various Pathological and Toxicological Aspects of 142 Deaths by Drowning. Geelong 1959 to 1974 in Proceedings of the Fourth Australian National Symposium on The Forensic Sciences, Perth, February, pp V.D. PLUECKHAHN, & R.B. COLLINS Hexachlorophene Emulsions and Antiseptic Skin Care of Newborn Infants Current Therapeutics; 17: 41-42

5 V.D. PLUECKHAHN, R.B. COLLINS & J. BANKS Hexachlorophene Emulsions and Antiseptic Skin Care of Newborn Infants. Med. J. Aust; 2: R. B. COLLINS, V.D. PLUECKHAHN & B. BALLARD The Use of Vitreous Humor in Forensic Post-mortem Examination in Proceedings of the Fifth Australian National Symposium on Forensic Sciences, Melbourne, February pp V.D. PLUECKHAHN, B.A. BALLARD, J.M. BANKS, R.B. COLLINS & P.T. FLETT Hexachlorophene Preparations in Infant Antiseptic Skin Care: Benefits, Risks and the Future. Med J. Aust; 2: / ASSISTANCE IN THE PRODUCTION BY V.D. PLUECKHAHN OF: 1982 Lectures on Forensic Medicine and Pathology. Editions one to five, University of Melbourne Printing Services. and 1983 Ethics, Legal Medicine and Forensic Pathology. First Edition, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne R.B. COLLINS Death by Drowning? in Proceedings of National Water Safety Conference, Adelaide R.B. COLLINS An Overview of Death by Drowning. in Proceedings of Water Safety Symposium, N.S.W. Department of Leisure, Sport and Tourism. SELECTED INVITED LECTURES 1986 Fifth Victorian Legal Convention, Geelong Continuing Education, Legal Aid Commission of Victoria. 1990/1 Blood Dynamics Course, State Forensic Science Laboratories, Victoria.

6 st Annual Meeting, Australian Institute of Medical Laboratory Scientists, Victorian Branch Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Post-Graduate Course; Post-mortem Toxicology Human Genetics Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch. 1992/3 Arson/Bomb Explosives Course, State Forensic Science Laboratories, Victoria 1992 Bar Readers Course; Expert Evidence/Interpretation of Wounds Public Defenders, NSW; Overview of Forensic Pathology RCPA, Forensic Pathology Program Presenter at Pathology Update Vernon Plueckhahn Oration, The Geelong Hospital. SELECTED CONSULTANCIES IN FORENSIC PATHOLOGY Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Coronial Inquiry into Police Shootings, Victoria. Police Shootings Gundy/Brennan, N.S.W. Inquiry by Mr. Justice Loveday into Conviction of Alexander McLeod Lindsay, N.S.W Coronial Inquiry, NSW into Thredbo landslide POSTGRADUATE MEMBERSHIP/STUDY Member, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. 1995, study with Dr. Carol Berkowitz, Adjunct Professor of Paediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine USA, child abuse and sexual assault. 1996, study with Dr. Charles Hirsch, Chief Medical Examiner, New York, USA, autopsies, sexual assault and bloodstain patterns. 1997, study with Professor David Graham, Department of Neuropathology, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, mechanisms of head injury and child abuse.

7 7 Attendance at Forensic Pathology Course, Pathology Update RCPA, Institute on the Physical Significance of Bloodstain Evidence, Corning, USA, Attendance at Forensic Pathology Course, Pathology Update RCPA, Attendance at Forensic Pathology Course, Pathology Update RCPA, Attendance at Forensic Pathology Course, Pathology Update RCPA, Attendance at Forensic Pathology Course, Pathology Update RCPA, Attendance at Forensic Interim Meeting, RCPA Attendance at Forensic Pathology Course, Pathology Update RCPA, 2012.