Contributors

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Contributors*

Gail S. Anderson, MPM, PhD, is a professor in forensic entomology in the School

of Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU), co-director of the Centre for

Forensic Research, and a forensic consultant to the RCMP and municipal police

across Canada; she holds a Burnaby Mountain Endowed Professorship at SFU. She

is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the Canadian Society

of Forensic Science. Dr. Anderson has been analyzing forensic entomology cases

since 1988 and has testif‌ied as an expert witness in court many times. She received

the Simon Fraser University Alumni Association Outstanding Alumni Award for

Academic Achievement in 1995 and a YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Sci-

ence and Technology in 1999, and was also a recipient of Canada’s Top 40 under

40 Award in 1999. Dr. Anderson was listed in Time magazine as one of the top f‌ive

innovators in the world, this century, in the f‌ield of criminal justice and was fea-

tured on the cover. Dr. Anderson was presented with the Derome Award in 2001.

She was listed as one of the 100 most inf‌luential women in British Columbia by

the Vancouver Sun and received a Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence in 2014.

Maggie Bellis, MB, BCh, BAO, FRCP, joined the Provincial Forensic Pathology Unit

in Toronto as a forensic pathologist in 2014, following residency training in forensic

pathology at the University of Toronto. She completed a bachelor of science degree

at Western University and received her medical training at the National University

of Ireland, Cork. After completing residency training at the University of Toronto,

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