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Mary E. Schmidt Case, MD — diagnostic and therapeutic services (anatomic pathology), diagnostic and therapeutic services (neuropathology), diagnostic and therapeutic services (forensic pathology)

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Chief medical examiner in four Missouri counties and professor of pathology at St. Louis University School of Medicine, Dr. Mary E. Case (b. 1943) is a forensic expert on crimes against children. Combining her subspecialties in anatomy, neuropathology, and forensic pathology, Dr. Case is an expert on shaken baby syndrome—brain and body injuries resulting from an abuser’s violent shaking of a child—and is frequently called upon to give her analysis of the evidence in criminal cases regarding the deaths of children.

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