Dr. Selina Leow
Deputy Chairperson (Elect), INTERPOL DVI
Forensic Odontology Sub-Working Group
Dr. Selina Leow
Dr Selina Leow has been a part of the NSW Forensic
Odontology Team in Australia for many years which is now based in the new
state-of-the-art Forensic Medicine and Coroners Court Complex in western Sydney
– the largest Forensic medicine facility in Australia. She attends the NSW
mortuary weekly and is involved in all aspects of the dental identification
process and odontological assessments and estimations. She is a published
author. As part of the NSW Forensic Education Team, she provides organizational
support for co-ordination of the NSW Forensic Odontology and Anthropology short
course annually in Sydney. She is the Forensic Odontology Co-ordinator for the
National DNA Program for Missing and Unidentified Persons overseen by the
Australian Federal Police. She has been tasked with ensuring that all Dental
information (AM and PM) has been collected, recorded and uploaded to Australia’s
National and Missing Persons Victim System (NMPVS). She is one of the most experienced
forensic odontology practitioners familiar with the software system (also known
as DVISys or PlassData). She leads training programs and manuals to ensure
that Australian Forensic Odontologists are upskilled. She is the NSW
Forensic Odontology registrar with the Royal College of Pathologists Australia and the State of NSW representative (Forensic Odontology) to the National
Institute of Forensic Science that provides advice to the Australian and New
Zealand Policing Advisory Agency. She is the Vice-President of the Australian
Society of Forensic Odontology Inc. (AuSFO) and has membership and participates
in many societies and organisations including the Association of Forensic
Odontology for Human Rights (AFOHR), American Society of Forensic Odontology
(ASFO), British Association of Forensic Odontology (BAFO) and International
Organisation of Forensic Odonto-Stomatology (IOFOS). Most recently, She is the Deputy Chairperson (Elect), INTERPOL DVI Forensic Odontology Sub-Working
group and regularly attends the INTERPOL DVI meetings each year as an
Australian delegate.