NAME Code of Ethics and Conduct

As a means to promote the highest quality of professional and personal conduct of its members, the following constitutes the Code of Ethics and Conduct which is endorsed and recommended to be adhered to by all members of the Association:

A. Every member of the Association shall refrain from exercising professional or personal conduct adverse to the best interests and purposes of the Association or to the medical examiner profession.

B. No member of the Association shall materially misrepresent his or her educational training, experience, area of expertise, certification, membership status within the Association or official title or position in a medicolegal system.

C. Every member of the Association shall refrain from providing any material misrepresentation of data upon which an expert opinion or conclusion is based.

D. Except for the President and Chairperson of the Board of Directors, no member of the Association shall issue public statements which appear to represent the position of the Association without specific authority first obtained from the Board of Directors.

E. All applicants for membership and annual renewal of membership shall affirm by their signatures that they have read, understood, and endorsed the Code of Ethics and Conduct in this Article X.

An ethics complaint may be registered with NAME using the form available HERE.