Updated: 5:46 PM PDT April 12, 2021
SPOKANE, Wash. Spokane County announced the hiring of a new Chief Medical Examiner on Monday.
Dr. Venna D. Singh will be filling one of the two medical examiner positions that are being vacated by Dr. Sally Aiken and Dr. John Howard when they retire.
According to a press release from Spokane County Spokesperson Jared Webley, Singh was most recently the medical examiner in Anoka County, Minnesota. Prior to that, she was a medical examiner in New Mexico and Arizona for several years.
Singh is a Doctor of Medicine and has a Master’s in Public Health from Oregon Health and Science University, according to Webley. She also completed residency training at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and fellowship training at the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator.