The office and position of state medical examiner is established for administrative
purposes within the department of health and human services. Other state agencies
shall cooperate with the state medical examiner in the use of state-owned facilities when
appropriate for the performance of nonadministrative duties of the state medical examiner.
The state medical examiner shall be a physician and surgeon or osteopathic physician and
surgeon, be licensed to practice medicine in the state of Iowa, and be board certified or
eligible to be board certified in anatomic and forensic pathology by the American board
of pathology. The state medical examiner shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure
of the director of health and human services upon the advice of and in consultation with
the director of public safety and the governor. The state medical examiner, in consultation
with the director of health and human services, shall be responsible for developing and
administering the medical examiner’s budget and for employment of medical examiner
staff and assistants. The state medical examiner may be a faculty member of the university
of Iowa college of medicine or the college of law at the university of Iowa, and any of the
examiner’s assistants or staff may be members of the faculty or staff of the university of
Iowa college of medicine or the college of law at the university of Iowa.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, §749A.5; C79, 81, §691.5]
86 Acts, ch 1245, §1602; 99 Acts, ch 208, §6, 14; 2001 Acts, ch 74, §20; 2023 Acts, ch 19,
§1291
Referred to in §124.553, 142C.2, 691.6A
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Notes of Decisions
State of Iowa v. Hillary Lee Tyler, 867 N.W.2d 136 (Iowa 2015).
· cites it 6× “” Iowa Code § 691.5 . Forensic pathologists are physicians who specialize in forensic pathology, meaning they received a Doctor of Medicine or a Doctor of Osteopathy, spent at least four years in a residency program, and then spent another 22 year in a forensic pathology…”
State v. Crisp (Iowa Ct. App. 2017).
· cites it 4× “Iowa Code section 691.5 provides, “The state medical examiner shall be a physician and surgeon or osteopathic physician and surgeon, be licensed to practice medicine in the state of Iowa, and be board certified or eligible to be board certified in anatomic and forensic pathology…”
Schreiber v. Ault, 419 F. Supp. 2d 1089 (S.D. Iowa 2006).
· cites it 3× “See Iowa Code § 691.5 (1997). The trial court held a conference in chambers to evaluate Schreiber’s argument that Dr.”
State of Iowa v. Hillary Lee Tyler (Iowa 2015).
· cites it 3× “” Iowa Code § 691.5 . Forensic pathologists are physicians who specialize in forensic pathology, meaning they received a Doctor of Medicine or a Doctor of Osteopathy, spent at least four years in a residency program, and then spent another 23 year in a forensic pathology…”
Amended September 30, 2015 State of Iowa v. Hillary Lee Tyler (Iowa 2015).
· cites it 3× “” Iowa Code § 691.5 . Forensic pathologists are physicians who specialize in forensic pathology, meaning they received a Doctor of Medicine or a Doctor of Osteopathy, spent at least four years in a residency program, and then spent another 23 year in a forensic pathology…”
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