Barbara C. Wolf, M.D., who serves as the Director of Forensic Medicine for the Medicolegal Investigation Unit of the New York State Police combines the role of doctor, scientist and detective in her job as a Forensic Pathologist. It should be noted that Dr. Wolf is a member of a rare breed. There are only several hundred doctors throughout the United States who work full-time as forensic pathologists --- and very few are women.

Dr. Wolf serves as a forensic pathologist in the Albany County Coroner's Office and is the Chief Medical Examiner for Rensselaer County. She also serves as a forensic pathologist for many other counties in upstate New York investigating homicides, suicides, traffic fatalities and child abuse.

Dr. Wolf has been involved in several high-profile cases among them the exhumation of Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader slain in Jackson, MS in 1963. In 1994 she joined the highly regarded team of experts who evaluated the evidence in the O.J. Simpson case. In 1995 she was involved in the exhumation of the bodies of five children in upstate New York though to have been SIDS. The re-evaluation of these deaths resulted in the conviction of the mother. She also traveled to Croatia and Bosnia to assist in the identification of remains of victims of mass murder.

Dr. Wolf lectures widely across New York as well as at national and international symposia and has taught at Harvard Medical School, the Boston University School of Medicine and Albany Medical College. In addition, Dr. Wolf is a member of many professional societies, including the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the National Association of Medical Examiners, the college of American Pathologists and the U.S./Canadian Academy of Pathology.