BOARD CERTIFICATIONS:

American Board of Pathology, Tampa, Florida

Anatomic and Clinical Pathology: November 1981

Forensic Pathology, Special Competency Certificate: May 1984

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Deputy Medical Examiner

Tarrant County Medical Examiner

July 1978 – September 1983

Tarrant – Parker Medical Examiner’s District

October 1983 – September 1985

Deputy Chief Medical Examiner

Tarrant – Parker Medical Examiner’s District

October 1985 – September 1989

Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s District

(Tarrant, Denton, Johnson and Parker Counties)

October 1989 – Present

 

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS:

University of North Texas Health Sciences Center

Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

Fort Worth, Texas:

Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology

September 1981 – August 1984

Assistant Professor of Pathology

September 1984 – August 2001

John Peter Smith Hospital Family Practice Residency Program,

Fort Worth, Texas 

April 1982 – Present

Pathology Staff (Teaching)

March 1990 – August 2000

Fort Worth Police and Fire Training Academy

Fort Worth, Texas

Visiting Lecturer, April 1981 – Present

Baylor University Medical Center,

Dallas, Texas

Supervisor, Pathology Residents (Forensic Electives and Required Forensics)

Consultant, Forensic Pathology

1981 – Present

Baylor College of Dentistry 

Dallas, Texas

Elective Senior Rotation, Forensic Odontology

1982 – Present

Fort Worth Osteopathic Medical Center

Fort Worth, Texas

Intern Rotation, Anatomic and Forensic Pathology

1981 – 1987

Resident Rotation, Anatomic and Forensic Pathology

1981 – 2001

Saint Paul Hospital Pathology Residency Program

Dallas, Texas

Senior Resident Rotation, Forensic Pathology

1982 – 1995 (Hospital program terminated)

Methodist Hospitals of Dallas Pathology Residency Program

Dallas, Texas

Senior Resident Rotation, Forensic Pathology

1983 – 1995 (Hospital program terminated)

Regional Police Academy, Arlington Police Training Center

Arlington, Texas

Visiting Lecturer, 1986 – Present

U.S. Treasury Department, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

Training Lecturer (Explosives Workshop)

1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995

Kentucky Coroners’ Update

Air Crash Investigation – 1989

The Branch Davidian Siege and Aftermath – 1994

University of New Orleans Forensic Sciences Seminar

1998 – 2001

Indiana Coroners’ Annual Meeting – 2001 (Response and Investigation of the Branch Davidian Tragedy)

Tarrant County Medical Examiner – Annual Forensic Science Update

2002 - present

International Forensic Institute, Tarrant County Medical Examiner

December 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012,

Physicians for Human Rights Training

2007 - present

Forensic Pathology Fellowship

Instructor and mentor

2006 - present

 

 

Committees:

American Academy of Forensic Sciences

Program, 1986 – 1993, 1994 – 2001

Medical Device Malfunction, 1987 – 2001

Membership and Credentials, Subcommittee to Liaison and Information, Tissue Banking

Liaison and Information, 1990 – Present

CDC Project, 1990

Human Rights, 1990

Nominating, 2001

Oversight, 2002

Program Director, 1993 Annual Meeting (Fort Worth, Texas)

Editorial Board of The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

(Vincent J.M. DiMaio, Editor-in-Chief),

May 1992 – December 1996

Clarify Affiliate Membership, 1987-88

Subcommittee, 1987 – 1992

State Coordinator May 1992 – Present

Physicians for Human Rights, 2014

Investigation of death of Palestinian teen, June, 2014

Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine 

2004 – present

Tarrant County Society of Pathologists

June 1984 – 1993 (organization terminated 1993)

Secretary-Treasurer, September 1988 – 1993

President 1992

Texas Medical Association

November 1986 – December 1997

June 2002 – present

Tarrant County Medical Society

November 1986 – December 1997, June 2002 – present

Museum of Science and History Liaison Committee 

1992

Texas Society of Pathologists

January 1989 – December 1997

Medical Examiner Council, 1989 – 1997

Alternate Delegate, 1990 – 1993 term

American Medical Association

1989- 1997

American Association for the Advancement of Science

September 1984 – 2002

American Association for Clinical Chemistry

1986 – 1993

American Association of Physical Anthropology

1987 – Present

Paleopathology Association

1988 – 1996

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Marcus, Peter B., Martin, James H., Green, Robert H. and Krouse, Marc

A., “Glycocalyceal Bodies and Microvillous Core Rootlets: Their Value in

Tumor Typing”, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 103,

February 1979.

 

Ritzmann, Steven E. and Krouse, Marc A., “Electrophoresis Assays”,

Chapter 27 in: Clinical Medicine, John A. Spittell, Jr. (ed), Harper and

Row, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1980-1984.

 

Brown, Robert E. and Krouse, Marc A., “Polysorbates and Renal Oxalate

Crystals in the E-Ferol Syndrome”: (letter), Journal of the American

Medical Association, 255:18, May 9, 1986 p2445.

 

Paper Presentations (Peer Reviewed)

Crow, RM, Peerwani, N and Krouse, MA, “A Practical Technique for

Freeing the Mandible in a Viewable Body with Fixed Rigor Mortis”,

presented by Dr. Crow at AAFS 35th Annual Meeting, Odontology Section,

February 1983.

 

Peerwani, Crow and Krouse, “One Body … Three Techniques … Three

Positive Identifications”, presented by Dr. Peerwani at AAFS 36th Annual

Meeting, Odontology Section, February 1984.

Peerwani, Crow, Krouse and Springfield, AS, “Intravenous Sedation

Results in Death in Oral Surgeon’s Office”, presented by Drs. Peerwani

and Springfield at AAFS 36th Annual Meeting, Odontology Section,

February 1984.

 

Crow, Peerwani and Krouse, “A Dislodged Endotracheal Tube Results in

Death of Oral Surgery Patient”, presented by Dr. Crow at AAFS 36th

Annual Meeting, Odontology Section, February 1984.

Krouse and Peerwani, “Vitreous Gasses as an Indicator of Postmortem

Interval”, (poster), at AAFS 40th Annual Meeting, Pathology/Biology

Section, February 1988.

 

“Air Crash Scene Investigation”, at Kentucky Coroners’ Conference,

Louisville, Kentucky, April 1989.

Krouse, Peerwani, Harvey, CM and Putthoff, SL, “Clinical Forensics:

Evolution of a New Area of Public Service in an Urban Medical Examiner

System”, presented by Dr. Krouse at AAFS 42nd Annual Meeting, General

Section, February 1990.

 

Peerwani, Krouse, Harvey, Putthoff, and Bodiford, EA, “Who Helps the

Helper? A Model for Critical Incident Debriefing”, presented by Dr.

Peerwani at AAFS 42nd Annual Meeting, General Section, February 1990.

Harvey, Krouse, Putthoff and Peerwani, “Pheochromocytoma Presenting

Clinically as Acute Respiratory Distress: A Case Report”, presented by

Dr. Harvey at AAFS 42nd Annual Meeting, Pathology/Biology Section,

February 1990.

 

Peerwani, Krouse, Harvey, Putthoff and Moses, DG “Polyarteritis Nodosa

Presenting as Sudden Death: A case Report and Review of Literature”,

presented by Dr. Peerwani at AAFS 42nd Annual Meeting,

Pathology/Biology Section, February 1990.

 

Krouse, Peerwani and Harvey, “A Problematic Cause of Death: Unusual

Septic Death of a Splenectomized Person”, presented by Dr. Krouse at

AAFS 42nd Annual Meeting, Pathology/Biology Section, February 1990.

Krouse, M.A., “A Probable Case of Tubercuolosis in a Northern Sinagua

Burial at Elden Pueblo”, presented as a poster at 50th Pecos Archaeology

Conference, August, 1990, Blanding, Utah and at AAFS 42nd Annual

Meeting, Pathology/Biology Section, February 1991.

 

Krouse, M.A., and Peerwani, N., “Sudden Death due to Interaction of

Phenochromocytoma and Brevital/Depomedrol”, presented as a poster at

AAFS 43rd Annual Meeting, Pathology/Biology Section, February 1991.

 

Krouse, M.A., Peerwani, N., Harvey, C.M., Putthoff, L.L. and Sisler, G.S.,

“Unusual Injury Pattern due to Separation from a Moving Motor Vehicle:

Even Landlocked Texas Surfers Can Die”, presented by Dr. Krouse at

AAFS 43rd Annual Meeting, Pathology/Biology section, February 1991.

 

Gill-King, H., and Krouse M.A., “Traumatic Erbs Palsy in Skeletonized

Human Remains”, presented as a poster at AAFS 44th Annual Meeting,

Physical Anthropology Section, February 1992.

 

Peerwani, N., Krouse, M.A., Crow, R.M., Ubelaker, D.W., Houck, M.M.,

Springfield, A.S., Eisenberg, A.J., and Singer, R.L., “Devilish Doings in the

Heart of Texas – The Branch Davidian Siege” at NAME 27th Annual

Meeting, 1993.

 

Krouse, M.A. and Jentzen, J, “Starvation Child Abuse in Tarrant County,

Texas and Milwaukee County, Wisconsin” at NAME 27th Annual Meeting,

1993.

 

Krouse, M.A. and Ernst, R., “Case Wounding Characteristics versus

Laboratory Studies of Newer Ammunition Types – The Black Talon

Strikes” at NAME 27th Annual Meeting, 1993.

Krouse, M.A., “Fatalities from Explosions in Tarrant County, Texas” at

NAME 27th Annual Meeting, 1993.

 

Peerwani, N., Krouse, M.A., and Crow, R.M., “Firearm Injury Patterns in

the Branch Davidian Raid”, presented by Dr. Krouse at AAFS 46th Annual

Meeting, Multidisciplinary Section, February 1994.

Krouse, et al, “A Case of Unusual Adipocere Formation in a Body with

Prolonged Submersion”, presented by Dr. Krouse at NAME 35th Annual

Meeting, 2001.

 

Krouse, M.A., “Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection – Case

Presentations and a Brief Literature Review”, presented at NAME 37th

Annual Meeting, 2003.

 

Austin, D. and Krouse, M., “Incidence of Hyoid and Laryngeal Fractures in

Hangings”, presented by Dr. Krouse at AAFS 58th Annual Meeting,

Pathology/Biology Section, February 2006.

 

Krouse, M.A. and Becker, J., “Suicide Using an Unusual Improvised

Firearm”, presented by Dr. Krouse at AAFS 61st Annual Meeting, General

Section, February 2009

 

Krouse, M.A., “Sudden Death due to Kawasaki-like Arteritis in a Surgically

Repaired Coronary Artery Fistula”, presented at AAFS 61st Annual

Meeting, Pathology-Biology Section, February 2009

Society and Fraternal Memberships

Pre-Med, Pre-Dent Society, Texas A&M University

September 1970 – December 1972

Tutor Program 1971 – 1972

Phi Beta Pi Theta Kappa Psi Medical Fraternity

September 1973 – Present

Faculty Advisor 1986 – 2001

American Society of Clinical Pathologists

1977 – 1993

American Chemical Society

1983 – 1995

American Academy of Forensic Sciences

Provisional Member, February 1984

Member, February 1988

Fellow, February 1991 - Present

Nominating Committee, Pathology/Biology Section, 1991 –1992

National Association of Medical Examiners

March 1984 - Present

Board of Directors: 1990-1992, 1993-1995

AWARDS:

National Honor Society, L.D. Bell High School

1967 – 1970

Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America

(Sea Explorer Ship 324, Longhorn Council)

February 1970

National Merit Scholar, Texas A&M University

September 1970 – December 1972

American Airlines Administrative Association

Scholarship – 1970

Phi Eta Sigma, Texas A&M University

1971

Dean’s List, Texas A&M University

Fall 1970 – Fall 1972

Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

Best Instructor in Pre-Clinical Sciences, 1985

Class Appreciation Awards

Class of 1987

Class of 1989