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Instructors

William D. Haglund, Ph.D.
Sr. Forensic Consultant to the International Forensic Program for Physicians for Human Rights

A forensic anthropologist, Haglund served as Chief Medical Investigator of the King County Medical Examiner's Office, Seattle, for 14 years. In December 1995 he became the United Nations' Senior Forensic Advisor for the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia. For the period June-1998- 2006 he was Director of the International Forensic Program for Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). His work with the United Nations and PHR has included investigation of human rights abuses, crimes against humanity and genocide. He has organized and directed forensic assessments and investigations in numerous countries, including Guatemala, Honduras, Rwanda, Somaliland, Georgia/Abkhazia, the former Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, East Timor, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Natasha Pranger
Forensic Scientist, Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory, Seattle

Pranger has been a forensic scientist with the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory since August 2002. In addition to working on the convicted offender database (CODIS) in the laboratory doing DNA analysis, she is also a primary responder on the Crime Scene Response Team (CSRT). As a member of the Washington State Patrol CSRT, she responds to crime scenes for different agencies across western Washington to conduct crime scene reconstructions, when possible, and to testify in criminal proceedings as an expert witness.

Michael Schwartz, J.D.
Attorney at Law

Schwartz's practice focuses on criminal defense and complex civil litigation cases. He is the former director of the Economic Crimes Unit (ECU) for the Attorney General's Office of the State of Washington, where he coordinated and directed the creation of the ECU. While with the Attorney General's Office, he also served as the deputy director of the Medical Fraud Control Unit. Additionally, Schwartz is a former deputy prosecuting attorney in the Criminal Division of the King County Prosecutor's Office. He has extensive investigative experience and a history of training personnel in criminal procedures and legal/evidentiary issues.

Instructors are subject to change.