Science and Research
Science and research, together with clinical practice, expert service, and education, constitute one of four fundamental pillars of our department's work activities. Every year team members publish tens of publications and most of them in peer-reviewed journals with the impact factor. They also cooperate in several national and international scientific projects and participate in preparing professional book publications.
Scientific and research activities of the department are mainly focused on the following areas:
1. Environmental deaths due to temperature extremes.
2. Wound ballistics.
3. Phenomenology of suicidal behavior.
4. Postmortem diagnosis of strangling deaths and drowning.
5. Sudden cardiovascular death.
6. Medicolegal aspects of sudden infant death syndrome.
7. Application of advanced photographic, optical, and imaging methods in medicolegal practice.
8. Forensic anthropology and osteology.
9. Specifics of language communication in forensic medicine.
At national level, our department chiefly cooperates with the academic-scientific and clinical departments of the Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové and University Hospital Hradec Králové as well as with Hradec Králové Emergency Medical Services. The department also develops extramural cooperation with allied forensic departments in the Czech Republic, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno, Institute of Criminology in Prague, and other partners. The most important national partners of our department include:
1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, St. Anne's Faculty Hospital Brno.
2. Department of Forensic Medicine and Medical Law, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University, University Hospital Olomouc.
3. Department of Forensic Medicine, Second Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Na Bulovce Praha.
4. Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, University Hospital Ostrava.
5. Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň, University Hospital Plzeň.
6. Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno.
7. Institute of Criminalistics, Prague, Czech Republic.
8. Department of Rescuing, Diagnostic Fields, and Public Health, Faculty of Health Care Studies, University of West Bohemia.
9. Department of Health Care Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Tomas Bata University in Zlín.
The department has established numerous international contacts with forensic institutes in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Russia, India, and other countries. The subject of international cooperation is the sharing of expert and diagnostic experience and the preparation of joint projects and professional publications. The most important international partners of our department include:
1. Department of Forensic Medicine and Medical Expertises, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava (MUDr. Martin Janík, Ph.D., doc. MUDr. Lubomír Straka, Ph.D.).
2. Katedra i Zakład Medycyny Sądowej, Uniwersytet Medyczny w Lublinie (dr. hab. n. med. Grzegorz Teresiński).
3. Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg (Prof. Dr. med. Michael Bohnert).
4. Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (Prof. Dr. med. Michael Klintschar).
5. Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg Institut für Rechts- und Verkehrsmedizin (Prof. Dr. med. Kathrin Yen).
6. Institut für Rechtsmedizin Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Prof. Dr. med. Michael Tsokos).
7. Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute für Menschenrechte, Wien (Mag.a Agnes Taibl).
8. Specialità medico-chirurgiche, scienze radiologiche e sanità pubblica, Università degli Studi di Brescia (Prof. Dr. Andrea Verzeletti).
9. Le Centre universitaire romand de médecine légale, Genève, Suisse (PD Dr. Cristian Palmiere).