Get to know Forensic Pathologist Dr. Karen B. Looman, who serves patients in Cincinnati, Ohio.

An experienced forensic pathologist, Dr. Looman is the Chief Deputy Coroner at Hamilton County Coroner’s Office in Cincinnati, Ohio. Involved in the legal aspect of medicine, her main tasks are determining the cause and manner of death in cases that are not natural – homicides, suicides and accidents. Furthermore, she signs the death certificates of those who don’t have doctors, does autopsy on babies that die under the age of two under sudden or suspicious circumstances, examines human bones that are found, testifies in court about many of her cases, and tries to help families understand why their loved ones have died. With a broad educational background, Dr. Looman earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1998. She then went on to complete her residency at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2006, and her forensic fellowship at the Tidewater Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in 2008.