Panel Presentation: Disaster Victim Identification

Chair

Mark Desire

Assistant Director, New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner

Mark Desire is an Assistant Director with the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner. He works in the Department of Forensic Biology, New York City’s DNA crime lab and the largest of its kind in North America. During his 24 years of employment, he has investigated thousands of criminal and missing persons cases. He is the manager of the World Trade Center DNA Identification Team, a unit dedicated to advancing the science and helping return loved ones to their families.

Nir Adam Sharon

DNA Analyst, Israeli National Center of Forensic Medicine

Nir Adam Sharon is a DNA Analyst in the Israeli National Center of Forensic Medicine since 2016, where he processes, files reports and has occasionally testified in hundreds of forensic criminal cases as well as human identification cases, including several mass casualty events.