Dr badens biography

1934–
AMERICAN
FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST

Michael Baden, a longtime medical examiner for New York City, has helped publicize the work of forensic pathologists through his books and television appearances.

Baden has focused particularly on the need for physicians trained in pathology to conduct autopsies and the importance of developing national standards for investigating unnatural deaths. He has served as an expert witness in several high-profile cases, including the examination of the remains of Tsar Nicholas of Russia, the death of comedian John Belushi, and the re-autopsy of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

Baden was born in the Bronx section of New York City to Jewish immigrants from Russian Poland.

A troubled juvenile, he was sent away at the age of six to live at the Hawthorne Reform School in Westchester County, New York. His housemother worked at the Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital and she impressed the boy by telling him that Bellevue was a place wer