UKL-HD - Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
Germany
Carrying out research and teaching science in all fields of legal medicine as an indispensable part of medical education, the institute provides the services of forensic pathology, DNA testing, technological biomechanics and accident research with respect to road traffic and aviation as well as forensic and clinical toxicology and related ones. The institute promotes, provides and assists in the graduate and postgraduate instruction and other training of persons in the above fields, also including members of the legal state authorities and the police.
According to a unique emphasis, the institute combines forensic-toxicological research and expertise on both, driving skills and driving attitude and their impairment by the use or abuse of medical or illegal drugs. The institute’s expertise is requested advising public authorities and administrative bodies with respect to medico legal, toxicological and traffic medicine issues. Besides their work in the boards and study groups of the relevant scientific societies, German society of traffic medicine (in German: DGVM) Society of Toxicological and Forensic Chemistry (in German: GTFCh) and German Society of Legal Medicine (in German: DRGM), researchers of the institute co-operate in the following committees and fields.
- German governmental "commission on threshold values for drugs and driving": two advising memberships including chair
- International proficiency testing in forensic toxicology as offered by the GTFCh: Acting scientific management and organisation
- German research foundation (DFG): Giving expert opinion concerning research applications in the above fields
- TMS-expert commission defining the appraisement diagnosis criteria of driving aptitude testing: Advising with regard to an appropriate organisation and application of checking for abstinence by toxicological tests (alcohol, legal and illegal psychoactive drugs): Two advising memberships
- German accreditation sector committee "forensic medicine, toxicology and biology" of the German Accreditation Body for Chemistry (DACH): Two advising memberships