New York City Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson, the first woman to hold the position in its 100-year history, has stepped down from her role.
400tmax/iStock(NEW YORK) Dr. Barbara Sampson, the first woman to lead the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in its 100-year history, announced her departure Monday for a job in the private sector. Sampson has been with the agency 23 years, nine as chief, and steered it through the grueling onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. "We were so overwhelmed with the number of fatalities here in the city that we needed every OCME employee to be part of our COVID response," Sampson recalled in an interview with ABC News. Prior to the pandemic, Sampson oversaw the autopsies of Eric Garner, Joan Rivers and Jeffrey Epstein, each of which generated a degree of public controversy "Keep with the truth and what is based in science and in medicine you can't go too far astray," she said of her guiding philosophy. Sampson has championed new technology for DNA analysis and for opioids detection so autopsies can more quickly inform public health officials and law enfor
(NEW YORK) Dr. Barbara Sampson, the first woman to lead the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in its 100-year history, announced her departu