IALM Bulletin Vol. IV, Number 2 2017 2nd Quadrimester

Greetings from the IALM President

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Welcome to the new Number of the IALM Bulletin, which will outline the presentation of the 24th Con-gress of the International Academy of Legal Medi-cine, to be held in Fukuoka from the 5th to the 8th of June, 2018, as well as the other recent Scientific Ac-tivities in which the Academy has been involved.

I take this opportunity to wish all of you the best success in all of your personal and professional en-deavours for this new academic period.

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PresidiumPresident Santo Davide Ferrara (Italy) Past President Duarte Nuno Vieira (Portugal) Vice-Presidents Angel Carracedo (Spain) Patrice Mangin (Switzerland) Secretary David Wells (Australia) Secretary Assistant Treasurer Tony Fracasso (Switzerland) International Relations Denis Cusack (Ireland) IJLM Representative Thomas Bajanowski (Germany) EALM Representative Bertrand Ludes (France) FASE Representative Cristina Cattaneo (Italy) Auditor Thomas Dewis (UK)

Scientific CommitteePhilip Beh (Hong Kong) Rossana Cecchi (Italy) Stephen Cordner (Australia) Henrik Druid (Sweden) Silke Grabherr (Switzerland) Hans P. Hougen (Denmark) Takaki Ishikawa (Japan) Eva Keller (Hungary) Aurelio Luna (Spain) Michael Pollanen (Canada) Markus Rothschild (Germany) Andreas Schmeling (Germany) Morris Tidball-Binz (Argentina) Douglas Ubelaker (USA) Peter Vanezis (UK) Guido Viel (Italy)

Editorial CommitteeGiovanni Cecchetto (Italy) Thomas Dewis (UK) Guido Pelletti (Italy)

Santo Davide Ferrara

IALM President

IALM Bulletin Vol. IV, Number 2 2017 2nd Quadrimester

Only 8 months separate us from the next IALM Congress, the main Scientific event of our Acad-emy, to be held for the first time in Japan, in the city of Fukuoka, in June 2018.

This prestigious academic event, supported by the Ja-

panese Society of Legal Medicine, is organized by Prof. Noria-ki Ikeda and Prof. Shin-ichi Kubo.

The title of the Congress is “From Asia to the World”, deriving its guiding ethos from the phenomenon of cultural exchange between Oriental and West-ern countries and future prospects for better research, innovation and training.

The venue of the Congress, the Fukuoka International Congress Center, is one of the most prominent in Japan, and has already been used as the location for a number important congress-es in the f i e ld o f B io -Medicolegal sciences, includ-ing the International Sympo-sium on Advances in Legal Medicine (ISALM-2014).

We hope that you will be able join us to participate in this distinguished event, which will be a key occasion for all those involved in the field of Legal Medicine!

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Countdown

to the 24th Congress of the

International Academy of Legal Medicine

Japan, 5th - 8th June 2018

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All of the relevant information pertaining to the scientific programme, registration to the Con-gress, submission of Abstracts, hospitality and the related social programme, will be published in the next issues of the IALM bulletin or will be found on the Congressional Website at the following address

www.ialm2018.org

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Important Dates Call for Papers

From October 2017 to January 15th 2018

Registration

Early

September 1st 2017 - February 15th 2018

Late

February 16th 2018 - May 31st 2018

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The numerous events of international importance which have taken place in recent years have confirmed the trend of the rapid evolution of science, in its vari-ous connotations and in all its many forms, typical of the ‘postmodern society of risk”, and the influence ex-erted by it upon the bio-medicolegal disciplines.

With the hope of fostering a collegial exchange of ideas and actions in this particular historical period, crucial for the identity and compactness of the bio-medicolegal sciences, the IALM President, in an editorial entitled P5 Medicine and Justice: the future is now, recently published in the International Journal of Legal Medicine (Ferrara,

S.D. Int J Legal Med, 2017, 131: 897), proposed some considerations for the at-tention of the readership.

These considerations, or-ganized in a logical order in 9 different points, present the evolution of the bio-medicolegal sciences, from the origin of historical uni-tarian knowledge to the

current black holes of general knowledge that will govern the direction of future research and will benefit from the biomedical sciences, in particular from the platforms of the future, constituted by imaging, -omics and bio-analytical sci-ences.

Finally, the steps necessary to attain truth, and thus reality, are outlined, which inevitably entail an effort of collaboration, in the realization of a IALM Mas-ter Plan concerning Evidence and Accuracy, so as to be able to definitively declare to the justice system the real capacity of the bio-medicolegal sciences to furnish truth and proof.

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IALM Youth Section

The Group of Referents of the Academy’s Youth Section is pleased to announce that a large number of requests have been re-ceived by the deadline set for the 31st of May, 2017, for sending a participation re-quest in one of the three Interdisciplinary Projects of the Youth Section.

There are currently 65 participants from countries spanning four continents, as outlined in the chart.In the next months, the Youth Section participants will be divided into 3 Work-ing Sub -Groups based on the Project of interest specified at the time of appli-cation for member-

ship of the Youth Section. The YS Referents will then send new opera-tional indications via mail in order to proceed to the development of the projects themselves.

Moreover, a brief summary of the projects will be added to the YS web page. Therefore, please continue to follow the updates of the Youth Sec-tion on the dedicated page of the IALM website (http://www.ialm.info/ialm_youth_section/).

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Upcoming Scientific Events

1st International Caparica Conference in Traslational Forensics

November 20-23, 2017 - Caparica, Portugal

AAFS 70th Annual Scientific Meeting

February 19-24, 2018 - Seattle, WA, USA

7th ISFRI Annual Meeting

May 10-12, 2018 - Melbourne, Australia

24th Congress International Academy of Legal Medicine

June, 5-8, 2018 - Fukuoka, Japan

56th TIAFT - SOHT Annual Meeting

August 26-30, 2018 - Ghent, Belgium

19th International Conference on Forensic Pathology

December 14-15, 2017 - Barcelona, Spain

55th TIAFT - SOHT Annual Meeting

January 6-12, 2018 - Boca Raton, FL, USA

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