During the opening event of the 103rd annual conference of the German Society for Legal Medicine (DGRM), held this week in Potsdam, the National Autopsy Network (NATON) was mentioned. DGRM President Prof. Dr. Stefanie Ritz, Director of the Institute of Legal Medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, praised the collaboration between the various disciplines related to autopsies that is being promoted by NATON in her speech.
At the conclusion of the exciting three-day conference themed “Back and forward into the future,” NATON coordinator Prof. Dr. Benjamin Ondruschka from the Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf presented the results from the jointly developed online survey on autopsy practices, which the autopsy network conducted this spring with legal medicine, pathology, and neuropathology institutes. He emphasized the importance of actively informing both relatives and clinical colleagues about the benefits of autopsies.
