JPAC · Joint Pathology and Administrative Center
NAAG’s corporate headquarters and San Diego forensic facility, at 6335 Ferris Square, Suite C.
NAAG Forensic / Institution
Institution
Formally organized. Accountable by design.
NAAG began in 2015 as the National Autopsy Assay Group. Today it operates as NAAG Forensic PC: a California professional medical corporation, owned and operated by forensic pathologists, and a contractor to the U.S. Department of Defense and to law enforcement, with forensic facilities in San Diego and Fresno and an office in Florida.
What we are
An institution, not an intermediary.
NAAG is not
- An expert-witness referral service.We do not broker experts, rent out names or match lawyers with outside doctors. Our physicians examine, document and testify on their own work.
- A pathology staffing agency.We do not place locum pathologists in other offices. Agencies contract with NAAG, and NAAG is accountable for the result.
- A loose network of consultants.NAAG is one organization, with one standard of practice, one reporting system and one chain of accountability.
NAAG is
- A formally organized medical institution.NAAG Forensic PC is a California professional medical corporation, owned and operated by forensic pathologists, operating continuously since 2015.
- A Department of Defense and law-enforcement contractor.For more than ten years NAAG has served the U.S. Department of Defense and California law enforcement. Sheriff-coroners contract with NAAG to perform medicolegal examinations under Government Code § 27491.
- A forensic pathology laboratory service.Our own facilities, physicians, scientists, technicians and investigators, and our own secure reporting system, built in-house.
Facilities
Our own laboratories.
San Diego
Fresno
RPC · Regional Pathology Center
NAAG’s Central California forensic facility, serving the counties of the Central Valley and beyond.
Seven days
Examinations every day of the week
Examinations at our Fresno and San Diego facilities seven days a week, or at a client county’s facility by arrangement.
Florida
An East Coast presence
NAAG maintains an office in Florida in addition to its California operations.
Standards
Standards you can audit.
Review
Formal peer review
Peer review is built into NAAG’s death investigation service and its reporting system.
Security
CJIS-compliant, secure reporting
CJIS compliance and secure evidence handling. Reports are prepared and delivered through NAAG’s own secure online reporting system, built and maintained by NAAG’s in-house programmers.
Retention
Evidence kept for the long run
Slides and blocks are retained indefinitely; wet tissue for five years, and indefinitely in criminal cases.
Custody
Chain of custody
Specimens are logged from arrival. Original blocks are not released; recuts and unstained slides are prepared for parties with legal standing.
Independence
The same answer for everyone
With the coroner’s permission, NAAG meets with prosecutors, law enforcement and defense counsel alike. Our findings do not change with the party asking.
Scrutiny
Written for the courtroom
Every report is written to withstand cross-examination, appellate review and public scrutiny.
Global standing
Local to California. Known worldwide.
NAAG’s physicians have testified in courts across the United States, in U.S. federal and military courts, in Canada and in overseas civilian and military courts. They have written and edited standard references in the specialty, among them Forensic Pathology: Principles and Practice and Medicolegal Neuropathology: A Color Atlas.
Medical examiner and coroner offices across the country send their most demanding specimens to NAAG’s neuropathology and anthropology services. Families bring loved ones to California from overseas for private examination. And NAAG teaches: through Forensic Educator, through seminars for the counties it serves, and through medical-school faculty appointments.
Family of services
One institution, several front doors.
NAAG Sheriff-Coroner Autopsy Service
Contract forensic pathology, AB 1108 and specimen services for California sheriff-coroners and medical examiner offices.
Private autopsy for families
Independent, physician-performed private autopsies for families in California and from around the world.
Forensic Educator
NAAG’s teaching programs for prosecutors, defense counsel, law enforcement and forensic pathologists.
Contact
Start with a conversation.
Tell us who you are and, in general terms, what you need. The right member of our team will respond.
Phone1-800-985-5346
Emailconsult@naagforensic.com
Office6335 Ferris Square, Suite C
San Diego, CA 92121
San Diego, CA 92121
Please don't email case records or images. The case request form collects what we need to open your matter; we'll arrange secure transfer of records after that.