Curriculum Vitae
HOME ADDRESS
739 Middle Way
Louisville, Kentucky 40206
BUSINESS ADDRESS
Commonwealth Medical Legal Services, Inc.
Brownsboro Office Park
6013 Brownsboro Park Blvd., Suite D
Louisville, KY 40207
(502)899-9837 or 899-9838
(502)899-9840 FAX
E-mail: REAPERGRN@AOL.COM
DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH
November 22, 1946
Louisville, Kentucky
MARITAL STATUS
Married – Janell Seeger, M.D.
Children: Ian, Dillon and Jordan
EDUCATION
1964-1968
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
Degree: B.A. – American History
1968-1972
University of Louisville
Degree: M.D.
School of Medicine
RESIDENCY
1972-1976
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
University of Louisville
Affiliated Hospitals
Louisville, Kentucky
FELLOWSHIP
1976-1977
Forensic Pathology
Institute of Forensic Medicine
Toxicology and Criminalistics
Cincinnati, Ohio
CERTIFICATION
1977
American Board of Pathology, Anatomic & Clinical Pathology
1978
American Board of Pathology, Forensic Pathology
LICENSURE
1973
Kentucky # 16801
1976
Ohio # 39388 (Lapsed as of 04/01/2018)
1987
Indiana # 01036519 (Lapsed as of 06/30/03)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1974-1976
Pathology Instructor (Teaching Resident)
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
1977-1978
Instructor
Department of Pathology
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
1978-1983
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
1979-1985
Associate Member
Department of Toxicology & Pharmacology
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
1981-1982
Instructor
National College of District Attorney
Houston, Texas
1983-1991
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
1981-1997
Section Chief, Forensic Pathology
and Director of Forensic Pathology Training
Department of Pathology
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
1997-Aug 1, 2002
Director, Clinical Forensic Medicine
Department of Pathology
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
1991- 2016
Clinical Professor
Section of Forensic Pathology
and Clinical Forensic Medicine
Department of Pathology
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
1996-June 30, 2013
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
NON-ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1974
Fellow, American Cancer Society
1975-1976
Chief Resident
Department of Pathology
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
1976-1977
Deputy Coroner
Hamilton County, Ohio
1977-1997
Chief Medical Examiner
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Retired September 1, 1997
1977-2005
Medical Director of Laboratories
International Clinical Laboratories
Smith Kline Clinical Laboratories
Smith Kline Beecham Clinical Laboratories
Quest Diagnostics
1983-2006
President and Medical Director
Laboratory Physicians, Inc.
2307 Greene Way Circle
Louisville, Kentucky 40220
(502) 491-3484
Sept. 1997-Dec 31, 1997
Consulting Forensic Pathologist
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Louisville, Kentucky
1997-Present
President
Commonwealth Medical Legal Services, Inc.
Brownsboro Office Park
6013 Brownsboro Park Blvd., Suite D
Louisville, Kentucky 40207
(502) 899-9837
1998-2004
Medical Consultant
Attorney General
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Unit
1999-2005
Consultant in Laboratory Medicine
AdminaStar of Kentucky
(Medicare carrier)
9001 Linn Station Road
Louisville, KY 40223
MEMBERSHIPS
1972-1976
House Staff Association
University of Louisville Affiliated Hospitals
President, 1974-75
1974-1975
Board of Governors
Louisville General Hospital
1974-Present
Jefferson County Medical Society
1974-Present
Kentucky Medical Association
Board of Delegates – 1975-79
Committee on Community and Rural Health – 1984-86
1976-2018
American Society of Clinical Pathologists
Fellow – 1980
1976-2018
National Association of Medical Examiner
Board of Directors 1982-1992, 1994-1995
1977-1984
Kentucky Society of Pathologists
President – 1983
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Fellow – 1991
1983-1988
Board of Directors
Kentucky Alliance for Exploited and Missing Children
1983-2018
American Association of Clinical Anatomists
1984-1985
Commission Member, Kentucky State Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention Board
1987-1995 and 1998-1999
Board of Directors
Children First
Louisville, Kentucky
1990-2018
College of American Pathologists – Fellow 1990
1991-2018
Association for Advancement of Automotive Medicine
1996-2003
Jefferson County Task Force to Prevent Domestic Violence
Chairman, Domestic Violence Fatality Review Committee
AWARDS
1977
Outstanding Accomplishment in Medical-Legal Issues, Louisville Bar Association
1987 and 1991
Kentucky Attorney General’s Certificate of Merit
1990
Individual Achievement Award, Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates
1993
Outstanding Victim Advocacy, Kentucky Victim’s Coalition
1993
Protect A Life Award, Office of Kentucky State Fire Marshall
1995
Silver “Telly” Award, Educational Video Foundation
1995
Vision Award, International Association of Forensic Nurses
1996
1996
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Alumni Association, School of Medicine, University of Louisville
1997
“The Wolf Award”, in recognition of outstanding service in the Coroner/Medical Examiner program
Coroner’s Association of Kentucky
1997
Ambassador for the Visually Impaired award presented by the Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation, Inc., the University of Louisville Ophthalmology & Visual Science and University of Louisville Lions Eye Bank
1997
Clinical Forensic Medicine Leadership Award
Presented at the Fourth Annual Postgraduate Clinical Forensic Medicine Conference
Louisville, Kentucky
1998
Outstanding Crime Victim Advocacy
Presented by the Kentucky Victim’s Coalition (KVC)
1998
1998 R. Dietz Wolfe Medical Educator Award
Presented by the Louisville Consortium for Medical Education
2020
University of Louisville
Alumni Fellow
School of Medicine
HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS
1977-1983
Staff Pathologist
Louisville General Hospital
Louisville, Kentucky
1983-2008
Staff Pathologist
University of Louisville Hospital
Louisville, Kentucky
1993-1995
Consultant in Pediatric Pathology
Department of Pathology
Kosair Children’s Hospital
Louisville, Kentucky
1986-1992
Director of Autopsy Service
Department of Pathology
University of Louisville Hospital
Louisville, Kentucky
1988-1995
Consultant in Laboratory Medicine
Department of Pathology
Kosair Children’s Hospital
Louisville, Kentucky
1995-2007
Active Staff
Department of Pathology
Kosair Children’s Hospital
Louisville, Kentucky
2008-2013
Emeritus Staff
Department of Pathology
Kosair Children’s Hospital
Louisville, Kentucky
2008-2009
University of Louisville Hospital
Louisville, Kentucky
HONORS
1992
Alpha Omega Alpha, Honor Medical Society
FIELD OF SPECIFIC INTEREST
Mass Fatality Management, Hospital Associated Disorders, Medical Device Related Morbidity and Mortality, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Occupational Disorders, Clinical Forensic Medicine. Medical Negligence, Causation Determination.
SPEECHES AND INVITED LECTURESHIPS
Too numerous to list
RESEARCH
Living Forensic Pathology Program, Grant No. 5601-N15A – 02/95
Practice Application of Infrared Videography in Victims of Violent Crime, UHSC#117-94, 1994, $200,143<
Infrared Videography Grant #5210-N15A-1/95, 1995, $179,125
PUBLICATIONS
Tobin GR, Schustermann M, Peterson GH, and Nichols GR; “Intramuscular neurovascular anatomy of the latissimus dorsi muscle: The basis for splitting the flap.” Surgical Forum, 31, (1980)
Alberhasky M, Nichols GR; “Fatal Hemorrhage From Minor Trauma Following Massive Salicylate Ingestion” American J of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Vol 5, (1984)
Weems C, Olson Wm, and Nichols GR; “Risk Factors for Death During a Heat Wave”, J of the Kentucky Medical Association, Vol. 83, Number 9, (1985)
Nichols GR, Whitesel JL, ,Hahn W, and Barrows GH; “Evaluation of a Routine Automated Alcohol Dehydrogenase Method”, American J Clinical Pathology, Vol 86, No. 3 (1986)
Beers GJ, Nichols GR, and Willing SJ; “CT Demonstration of Fat Embolism-Associated Hemorrhage in the Anterior Commisure”, American J of Neuroradiology, Vol 9, No 1 (1988)
Smock WS, Fuller PM, Huellcle DF and Nichols GR, “Basilar Skull Fractures Without Cranial Vault Impacts”. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second STAPP Car Crash Conference, Atlanta, Georgia (1988)
Nichols GR, Davis GJ and Lefkowitz JB; “Sudden Death Due to Fibromuscular Dysplasia of the Sinoatrial Nodal Artery”. J of the Kentucky Medical Association, Vol 87 (1989)
Smock WS, Nichols GR, Fuller PM and Weakley-Jones BA; “The Forensic Pathologist and the Determination of Driver vs. Passenger in Motor Vehicle Collisions”. American J of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Vol 10, (1989)
Nichols GR, Davis GJ, and Corey TS; “In the Shadow of The Baron: Sudden Death Due to Munchausen Syndrome:, American J of Emergency Medicine, Vol 8 (1990)
Nichols GR, Corey TS, and Davis GJ; “Case Report: Nonfracture Associated Fatal Fat Embolism in a Case of Child Abuse”, J of Forensic Sciences, Vol 35 (1990)
Farrow JR, Davis GJ, Roy TM, McCloud LC, and Nichols GR; “Fetal Death Due to Nonlethal Maternal Carbon Monoxide Poisoning”, J of Forensic Sciences, Vol 35 (1990)
Nichols GR, Davis GJ, Corrigan CA, and Ransdell JS; “Death Associated with Abuse of a designer Drug”, J of the Kentucky Medical Association, Vol 88 (1990)
Davis GJ, McCloud LC, Nichols GR, “Cerebral Tissue Pulmonary Embolization Due to Head Trauma”, J of Forensic Sciences, Vol 36, (1991)
Corey TS, Nichols GR, Weakley-Jones B., Theuer HH. Unnatural deaths in nursing
home patients. J for Sci 37(1):222-227. Jan 1992
Nichols GR, and Davis GJ; “Body Packing With a Twist: Death of a Salesman”, American J of Forensic Medicine and Pathology Vol 13, (1992)
Nichols GR, Davis J, Parolla AJ; “Dirty Diving: Sudden Death of a Scuba Diver in a Water Treatment Facility”. American J Forensic Med Pathol. 1992
Corey TS, McCloud LC, Nichols GR, and Buchino JJ; “Infant Death Due to Unintentioned Injury; American J of Diseases of Children, Vol 146 (1992)
Smock WS, Nichols GR, and Fuller PM, “Development and Implementation of the First Clinical Forensic Training Program, J of Forensic Sciences, Vol 38 (1993)
Handy TC, Nichols GR, Smock WS. Repeat visitors to a pediatric forensic medicine program. J for Sci 41(5): 841-844. September 1996
Mudd KL, Hunt A, Matherly RC, Goldsmith LJ, Campbell FR, Nichols GR, Rink RD; “Analysis of Pulmonary Fat Embolism in Blunt Force Fatalities”, J of Trauma, Vol. 48, Number 4, (2000)
Beers GJ, Raque GH, Wagner GG, Shields CB, Nichols GR 2nd, Johnson JR, Meyer JE. “MR Imaging in Acute Cervical Spine Trauma”, Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, Vol. 12, Issue 5, pg 755-761, 1988
Bernstein M, Nichols GR, and Blair J; The Use of Black and White Infrared Photography for Recording Blunt Force Injury; Clinical Anatomy, 2012
BOOK CHAPTERS
Nichols GR. Investigation of Church Bus Collision with Fire and Mass Fatalities. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Forensic Aspects of Mass Disaster and Crime Scene Reconstruction. U.S. Government Printing House, 1990.
Handy TC, Nichols GR, and Buchino JJ; A Pediatric Medicine Program in Dimmeck JE, Singer DB (eds): Forensic Aspects in Pathology. Perspect Pediatric Pathology. Basel, Derger, 1995