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MH Sorg: Page 1 of 34 MARCELLA HARNISH SORG Curriculum Vitae October - 2018 ADDRESS Margaret Chase Smith Center Policy Center 5784 York Complex, Bldg #4 Voice: (207) 581-2596 University of Maine Fax: (207) 581-1266 Orono ME 04469-5784 E-mail [email protected] Human Osteology & Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Voice: (207) 581-2590 Department of Anthropology 5744 South Stevens Hall University of Maine Orono ME 04469-5744 EDUCATION, BOARD CERTIFICATION, AND LICENSURE 1984 Diplomate American Board of Forensic Anthropology (recertification 2016 - 2018) 1979 Ph.D. Physical Anthropology, Ohio State University 1975 M.A. Anthropology, Ohio State University 1972 B.A. Psychology, Bowling Green State University 1969 R.N. Ohio (current status: inactive) 1969 Diploma Fairview General Hospital School of Nursing HONORS 2017 Presidential Public Service Achievement Award, University of Maine 2014 Appointment to National Institute of Standards, Crime Scene/Death Investigation Scientific Area Committee, as Vice Chair (2014-2016) 2010 T. Dale Stewart Award from the Physical Anthropology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the Section’s highest award for career achievement in physical anthropology. CURRENT RESEARCH Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Taphonomy Forensic taphonomy theory and method: terrestrial and marine environments Forensic search and recovery of human remains Forensic Epidemiology and Public Policy Medicolegal investigation of death, violence, and trauma Drug related mortality and morbidity Public health and safety interface of information systems and public policy CURRENT EMPLOYMENT AND POSITIONS: Research Professor, University of Maine, jointly appointed in the Department of Anthropology, Climate Change Institute, and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center (2016-present) and Director of Rural Drug and Alcohol Research Program, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, University of Maine (2002-present) http://mcspolicycenter.umaine.edu/people/marcella-sorg/ Consulting Forensic Anthropologist, Maine Office of Chief Medical Examiner (1977-present), New Hampshire Office of Chief Medical Examiner (1981-present), Delaware (2009-2015), and Rhode Island (2006-present) with occasional consulting for other states and private clients.

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MARCELLA HARNISH SORG

Curriculum Vitae October - 2018

ADDRESS Margaret Chase Smith Center Policy Center 5784 York Complex, Bldg #4 Voice: (207) 581-2596 University of Maine Fax: (207) 581-1266 Orono ME 04469-5784 E-mail [email protected] Human Osteology & Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Voice: (207) 581-2590 Department of Anthropology 5744 South Stevens Hall University of Maine Orono ME 04469-5744 EDUCATION, BOARD CERTIFICATION, AND LICENSURE 1984 Diplomate American Board of Forensic Anthropology (recertification 2016 - 2018) 1979 Ph.D. Physical Anthropology, Ohio State University 1975 M.A. Anthropology, Ohio State University 1972 B.A. Psychology, Bowling Green State University 1969 R.N. Ohio (current status: inactive) 1969 Diploma Fairview General Hospital School of Nursing HONORS 2017 Presidential Public Service Achievement Award, University of Maine 2014 Appointment to National Institute of Standards, Crime Scene/Death Investigation

Scientific Area Committee, as Vice Chair (2014-2016) 2010 T. Dale Stewart Award from the Physical Anthropology Section of the American Academy

of Forensic Sciences, the Section’s highest award for career achievement in physical anthropology.

CURRENT RESEARCH Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Taphonomy Forensic taphonomy theory and method: terrestrial and marine environments Forensic search and recovery of human remains Forensic Epidemiology and Public Policy Medicolegal investigation of death, violence, and trauma Drug related mortality and morbidity Public health and safety interface of information systems and public policy CURRENT EMPLOYMENT AND POSITIONS: Research Professor, University of Maine, jointly appointed in the Department of Anthropology, Climate Change Institute, and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center (2016-present) and Director of Rural Drug and Alcohol Research Program, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, University of Maine (2002-present) http://mcspolicycenter.umaine.edu/people/marcella-sorg/ Consulting Forensic Anthropologist, Maine Office of Chief Medical Examiner (1977-present), New Hampshire Office of Chief Medical Examiner (1981-present), Delaware (2009-2015), and Rhode Island (2006-present) with occasional consulting for other states and private clients.

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Associate Member, Maine State Evidence Response Team, Maine State Police, Department of Public Safety (1998-present) http://www.maine.gov/dps/msp/special_units/evidence_response.html Sentinel Community Epidemiologist, National Drug Early Warning System, National Institute on Drug Abuse (2015-present), representing the State of Maine http://www.drugabuse.gov/news-events/news-releases/2014/07/nih-system-to-monitor-emerging-drug-trends Cooperating Curator, Hudson Museum Board of Cooperating Curators, University of Maine (2005 -present) Faculty Member, Colby College Forensic Medicine Seminar, Summer Program (1982-present), Waterville, Maine PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT AND POSITIONS Research Associate Professor, University of Maine, jointly appointed in the Department of Anthropology, Climate Change Institute, and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center (2010-2016) Research Associate (1998-2010) and Director of Rural Drug and Alcohol Research Program, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, University of Maine (2002-present) http://mcspolicycenter.umaine.edu/people/marcella-sorg/ Vice-Chair, Crime Scene/Death Investigation Scientific Area Committee, National Institute of Standards, Organization of Scientific Area Committees, Forensic Science Standards Board http://www.nist.gov/forensics/osac/sac-crime.cfm (2014-2016) Faculty Participant and External Case Reviewer/Consultant to Dept. of Defense, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, Central Identification Laboratory via Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (2013-2015) Participant/Member, Community Epidemiology Work Group, National Institute on Drug Abuse (2003-2014), representing the State of Maine, http://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/organization/workgroups-interest-groups-consortia/community-epidemiology-work-group-cewg/members-contact-information Member, State of Maine Substance Abuse Services Commission (2006-2012) (gubernatorial appointment) Part-time Teaching Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Maine (Assistant Professor 1978-1982; Faculty Associate 1987-1988; 1995-2009), (Instructor 1989-1990) Director, Interdisciplinary Training for Health Care for Rural Areas Project, Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy, University of Maine (1999-2002) Project Staff (1997-1999). Vice-President, CFO, and Senior Consultant, Sorg Associates, Orono, Maine: (1988-1996) Vice-President and CFO, Northeast Research Inc., Orono, Maine (Non-Salaried1980-1987; Salaried 1988) Associate Director, Center for the Study of the First Americans, Institute of Quaternary Studies, Univ. of Maine (1983-1987) Canadian-American Studies Outreach Project Coordinator and cooperating Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine (1981-1982)

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Guest Faculty Member, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom, Department of Archaeological Sciences, Forensic Archaeology Course. (2002) Guest Faculty Member, U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Department of Medical Education, Washington DC, Annual Forensic Anthropology Course. (1998) 1969-1973 Nursing Positions Staff and Charge Nurse: Clinical Research Unit, The Ohio State University Hospital, Columbus, Ohio (1972-73). Implementation of inpatient and outpatient research protocols. Staff and Charge Nurse: Bowling Green State University Student Health Center, Bowling Green, Ohio (1970-72). Inpatient and outpatient primary care. Staff Float Nurse: Queens Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii (1970). Inpatient primary care. Charge Nurse and Night Supervisor: Magruder Hospital, Port Clinton, Ohio (1969-1970). Medical-surgical, emergency, and obstetrics inpatient and outpatient care. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: American Board of Forensic Anthropology (Diplomate; Past President; Past Secretary) American Academy of Forensic Sciences (Fellow) National Association of Medical Examiners (Affiliate Member) American Association of Physical Anthropologists (Member) Northeast Forensic Anthropology Association (Co-Founder; group is no longer active) BOOKS and DOCTORAL DISSERTATION Sorg, Marcella H., William D. Haglund, and Kerriann Marden (In prep.) Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains, 2nd Edition. CRC Press. (under contract) Haglund, William D. and Marcella H. Sorg (editors) (2002) Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspectives. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. [507 pp., ISBN 0-8493-1189-6] Rebmann, Andrew, Edward David, and Marcella H. Sorg (2002) Cadaver Dog Handbook: Training and Tactics for the Forensic Recovery of Human Remains. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. [232 pp., ISBN 0-8493-1886-6] Haglund, William D. and Marcella H. Sorg (editors) (1997) Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL., [636 pp., ISBN 0-8493-9434-1] Bonnichsen, Robson and Marcella H. Sorg (editors) (1989) Bone Modification. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Orono, ME. [535 pp., ISBN 0-912933-06-2] Sorg, Marcella H. (1982) Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Human Evolution: Physical Anthropology and the Archaeological Record by F.E. Poirier. Burgess Publishing, Minneapolis, MN. Sorg, Marcella H. (1981) Instructor’s Manual to Accompany In Search of Ourselves, An Introduction to Physical Anthropology, 3rd edition, by F.E. Poirier. Burgess Publishing, Minneapolis, MN,

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Sorg, Marcella H. (1979) Genetic Demography of Deme Formation in a Franco-American Population: 1830-1903. Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio State University, University Microfilms. JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES Sorg, Marcella H. (invited chapter in prep.) Taphonomic Modifications of Tennessee Volunteers in the Mexican-American War, In Hugh Berryman, Ed., Mexican American War Dead. Cao, Yanjia, Kathleen Stewart, Eric Wish, Eleanor Artigiani, and Marcella H. Sorg. Spatial accessibility to substance use disorder treatment and EMS in New Hampshire. Submitted to Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Sorg, Marcella H. (invited chapter in prep.) Differentiating Taphonomic Alterations and Trauma. Special Issue of Forensic Sciences International, Doulas Ubelaker, Ed. Crist, Thomas and Marcella H. Sorg (invited chapter in prep.) Scurvy, Syphilis, and Surgery: The Bioarchaeology of the French Settlement at Saint Croix Island, 1604-1605. In Marie Danforth and Tyler Cargill, Eds., The Bioarchaeology of French Colonization in the New World. Sorg, Marcella H., Marie A. Abate, D. Leann Long, James A. Kaplan, James C. Kraner, Allen R. Mock, Margaret Greenwald, Thomas A. Andrew, Steven Shapiro, Jamie A. Wren (2016) Variability among opioids in apparent co-intoxicant additive effects in opioid-related deaths. Academic Forensic Pathology 6(3):532-542. Sorg, Marcella H. and William D. Haglund (2016) Foreword in E.M.J. Schotsmans, N. Marquez-Grant and S. Forbes (Eds.) Taphonomy of Human Remains: Forensic Analysis of the Dead and Depositional Environment. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. Sorg, Marcella H., Margaret Greenwald, Jamie A. Wren. (2016) Patterns of drug-induced mortality in Maine, 2015 Update. Maine Policy Review 25(1):34-46. Crist, Thomas and Marcella H. Sorg (2016) Autopsy and Colonial Experience with Mass Fatality in New France during the Winter of 1604-1605. In Ken Nystrom, Editor. The Bioarchaeology of Dissection and Autopsy in the United States. New York: Springer Publishing, pp. 25-40. Varghese, Elvy M., Marie A. Abate, Lan Hu, James A. Kaplan, James C. Kraner, D. Leann Long, Marcella H. Sorg, Allen Mock, Margaret Greenwald, Thomas Andrew (2015) Characterization of Diphenhydramine-Related Accidental Overdose Deaths. Academic Forensic Pathology 5(1):105-115. Crist, Thomas and Marcella H. Sorg (2014) Adult scurvy in New France: Samuel de Champlain’s “mal de la terre” at St. Croix Island, 1604. International Journal of Paleopathology (doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2014.04.002) and 5:95-105 in print. Sorg, Marcella H. and William D. Haglund (2013) Forensic Anthropology. In Stuart James, Jon Nordby, and Suzanne Bell, Editors. Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

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Sorg, Marcella H., William D. Haglund, and Jamie A. Wren (2012) Current Research in Forensic Taphonomy. In Dirkmaat, D.C., Editor, A Companion to Forensic Anthropology. Boston: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 477-498. Marden, Kerriann, Marcella H. Sorg, and William D. Haglund (2012) Taphonomy. In Elizabeth A. DiGangi and Megan K. Moore, Editors, Research Methods in Human Skeletal Biology. New York: Academic Press, 241-262. Crist, Thomas, Marcella H. Sorg, Molly Crist and John Benson (2012) The Skeletons at St. Croix Island. In Pendery, Steven, Editor, St. Croix Island, Maine: History, Archaeology, and Interpretation. Occasional Publications in Maine Archaeology, No. 14, pp. 185-222. Brogdon, B.G., Marcella H. Sorg and Kerriann Marden (2010) Fingering a Murderer: A Successful Anthropological and Radiological Collaboration. Journal of Forensic Sciences 55(1):248-50. Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) An Overview of Human Health Issues. In G.L. Jacobson et al. Maine’s Climate Future: An Initial Assessment. Orono, ME: University of Maine, pp. 58-60. http://www.climatechange.umaine.edu/mainesclimatefuture Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Prescription Drug Misuse and Abuse in Maine: Policy Brief for Maine’s PLA Legislative Policy Forum on Health Care. Convened by the Maine Development Foundation and Funded by the Maine health Access Foundation, Augusta, ME (proceedings) Sorg, Marcella H. and William D. Haglund (2008) Forensic Anthropology. In Stuart H. James and Jon J. Nordby (editors), Principles of Forensic Science, 3rd Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, (chapter 7). Haglund, William D. and Marcella H. Sorg (2008) Forensic Taphonomy. In Stuart H. James and Jon J. Nordby (editors), Principles of Forensic Science, 3rd Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, (chapter 8). Haglund, WD and Marcella H. Sorg (2005) Taphonomy. In J. Payne-James (ed.) Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine. Academic Press, New York, NY Sorg, Marcella H. (2005) Forensic Anthropology. In Stuart H. James and Jon J. Nordby (editors). Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques (2nd ed) CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, (chapter 7). Sorg, Marcella H. and Margaret Greenwald (2003) Patterns of Drug-Related Mortality in Maine, 1997-2002 Maine Policy Review 12(1):84-95. http://denali.asap.um.maine.edu/mcs/files/pdf_mpr/SorgGreenwaldV12N1.pdf Haglund, William D. and Marcella H. Sorg (2002) Human Remains in Water Environments. In William D. Haglund and Marcella H. Sorg (Editors), Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspective. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 201-218. Sorg, Marcella H. (2002) Forensic Anthropology. In Stuart H. James and Jon J. Nordby (editors), Principles of Forensic Science. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, (chapter 7).

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Sorg, Marcella H. and William D. Haglund (2002) Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Purpose, Theory, and Process. In William D. Haglund and Marcella H. Sorg (editors), Advancing Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspective. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 3-29. Haglund, William D. and Marcella H. Sorg (1997) Method and Theory in Forensic Taphonomy. In William D. Haglund and Marcella H. Sorg (editors), Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL., pp. 13-26. Sorg, Marcella H., Edward David, and Andrew Rebmann (1998) Cadaver Dogs, Taphonomy, and Postmortem Interval in the Northeast. In Kathleen J. Reichs (editor), Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, pp. 120-144. Sorg, Marcella H., John H. Dearborn, Elizabeth I. Monahan, Henry F. Ryan, Kristin G. Sweeney, and Edward David (1997) Forensic Taphonomy in Marine Contexts. In William D. Haglund and Marcella H. Sorg (editors), Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL., pp. 567-604. Sorg, Marcella H. (1996) Community Formation in Old Town, Maine, 1835-1930: Endogamy and Natal Origins Among the Acadians. In Claire Quintal (editor), Steeples and Smokestacks: A Collection of Essays on the Franco-American Experience in New England, pp. 109-121, Institut Français, Assumption College, Worcester, MA. (New translation of 1985 publication) Sorg, Marcella H., Robert P. Andrews, and M. Yasar Iscan (1989) Radiographic Ageing of the Adult. In M. Yasar Iscan (editor), Age Markers in the Human Skeleton, pp. 169-193. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL. Sorg, Marcella H. (1985) Scavenger Modification of Human Remains. Current Research in the Pleistocene 2:37-38. Luppi, Faye and Marcella H. Sorg (1985) The Rise and Decline of a Hinterland Community: Vanceboro, Maine. Maine Historical Society Quarterly 25(2):88-113. Sorg, Marcella H. (1984) Isonymy and Diabetes Prevalence in the Vinalhaven Island Population. Human Biology, 55(2):305-311. Sorg, Marcella H. and Robson Bonnichsen (1984) Human Skeleton Dating Project. Current Research in the Pleistocene 1:23-26. Sorg, Marcella H. and Beatrice C. Craig (1983) Patterns of Infant Mortality in the Upper St. John Valley French Population: 1791-1838. Human Biology, 55(1):101-113. Sorg, Marcella H. and Beatrice C. Craig (1983) Patterns of Infant Mortality in the Upper St. John Valley French Population: 1791-1838. Human Biology, 55(1):101-113. in E.R. Brennan (editor) Mortality Patterns in Anthropological Populations. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983.]

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Sorg, Marcella H. and Robson Bonnichsen (1982) Taphonomic Research on Rye Patch Reservoir Faunal Remains. Curent Resarci in the Pleistocene 1:51-52. Sorg, Marcella H. (1981) La formation d’une communauté à Old Town, Maine, 1835-1930: Endogamie et origines natales parmi les Acadiens. In Claire Quintal (editor) L’Émigrant Acadien vers les États-Unis: 1842-1950. Québec: Le Conseil de la Vie Française en Amérique. PUBLISHED AND PUBLICLY AVAILABLE REPORTS Sorg, Marcella H. (2018) Expanded Maine Drug Death Report for 2017. Maine Office of Attorney General. Augusta, Maine. http://www.maine.gov/ag/news/article.shtml?id=741243 Sorg, Marcella H. (2017) National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) Maine Sentinel Community Site Drug Use Patterns and Trends, 2017, SCS Highlights. https://ndews.umd.edu/sites/ndews.umd.edu/files/maine-scs-drug-use-patterns-and-trends-2017-final.pdf Sorg, Marcella H., Jamie A. Wren, Kathleen Stewart (2017) Unintentional Fentanyl Overdoses in New Hampshire: An NDEWS HotSpot Report. National Drug Early Warning System https://ndews.umd.edu/sites/ndews.umd.edu/files/ndews-hotspot-unintentional-fentanyl-overdoses-in-new-hampshire-final-09-11-17.pdf Sorg, Marcella H. (2017) Expanded Maine Drug Death Report for 2016. Maine Office of Attorney General. Augusta, Maine. http://www.maine.gov/ag/news/article.shtml?id=741243 Sorg, Marcella H. (2016) National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) Maine Sentinel Community Site Drug Use Patterns and Trends, 2016, SCS Highlights. https://ndews.umd.edu/sites/ndews.umd.edu/files/u1424/maine_scs_drug_use_patterns_and_trends_2016.pdf Sorg, Marcella H. and Jamie A. Wren (2016) Preliminary “HotSpot” Analysis of Heroin and Fentanyl Mortality in New Hampshire, 2010-2015. In NDEWS New Hampshire HotSpot Report: The Increase in Fentanyl Overdoses. Baltimore: NDEWS Coordinating Center, pp. 13-24. https://ndews.umd.edu/sites/ndews.umd.edu/files/u1486/newhampshirehotspotreportphase1-final.pdf Sorg, Marcella H. (2015) National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) Maine Sentinel Community Site Drug Use Patterns and Trends, 2015, SCS Highlights. http://ndews.umd.edu/featuredcontent/1328 Sorg, Marcella H. (2014) Patterns and trends of drug abuse in Maine: 2013 and Early 2014. Community Epidemiology Work Group, National Institute on Drug Abuse. http://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/maine2014.pdf

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2014) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends in Maine –Update: January 2014. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Work Group Meeting Report. http://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/organization/workgroups-interest-groups-consortia/community-epidemiology-work-group-cewg/meeting-reports/highlights-summaries-january-2014/maine Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Patterns and Trends of Drug Abuse in Maine, 2012 and Early 2013. Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Volume II, June 2013. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, pp. 159-171. (http://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/cewgjune2011_vol_ii_508.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends in Maine – Update: January 2013. Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Highlights and Executive Summary. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, pp 76-77. (http://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/cewg_january_2013_vol1_508.pdf) Rogers, Anne L, Marcella H. Sorg and Jamie A. Wren (2013) The Cost of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Maine, 2010. Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Augusta, ME. http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/samhs/osa/pubs/data/2013/Cost2010-final.pdf Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Developing Regional Taphonomic Standards. National Institute of Justice grant 2008-DN-BX-K177. https://nij.gov/publications/digest/Pages/issue14.aspx Sorg, Marcella H. (2012) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends in Maine – Update: January 2012. Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Highlights and Executive Summary. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, pp 45-46. (http://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/cewg_january_2012_tagged_v2.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2012) Patterns and Trends of Drug Abuse in Maine, 2010. Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Volume II, June 2011. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, pp. 163-172. (http://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/cewgjune2011_vol_ii_508.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends in Maine – Update: January 2011. Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Highlights and Executive Summary. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, pp. 79-80. (http://www.nida.nih.gov/pdf/cewg/CEWGJan2011_508.pdf)

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) Patterns and Trends of Drug Abuse in Maine: 2009. Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Volume II, June 2010. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, pp 150-158. (http://www.nida.hig.gov/pdf/cewg/CEWG-June-2010-VolII-508.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends in Maine – Update: January 2010. Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Highlights and Executive Summary. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, pp. 62-64. (http://www.nida.nih.gov/pdf/cewg/CEWGJan2010_508_REV.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Patterns and Trends of Drug Abuse in Maine: 2008. Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Volume II, June 2009. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, pp. 148-155. (http://www.nida.nih.gov/pdf/cewg/CEWGVol2June_web508.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends in Maine – Update: January 2009. Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Highlights and Executive Summary. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, pp. 51-52. (http://www.nida.nih.gov/pdf/cewg/CEWGJan09508Compliant.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Patterns and Trends of Drug Abuse in Maine: 2007. Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Volume II, June 2008. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, pp. 151-159. (http://www.nida.nih.gov/pdf/cewg/CEWGVol2June08WebFINAL.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Drug-Induced Deaths in Maine 1997-2008, with Estimates for 2009. Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, University of Maine, Orono ME. http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/samhs/osa/pubs/data/2011/DrugInducedDeathsReport%2097-08%20Final%202[1].pdf Sorg, Marcella H., Sharon LaBrie, and William Parker (2009) Analysis and Evaluation of Participation by Prescribers and Dispensers in the Maine State Prescription Monitoring Program. Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, University of Maine, Orono ME. http://www.pdmpexcellence.org/content/analysis-and-evaluation-participation-prescribers-and-dispensers-maine-state-prescription--0 Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends in Maine – Update: January 2008. Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Highlights and Executive Summary. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, pp. 42-43. (http://www.nida.nih.gov/pdf/cewg/AdvReport108.pdf)

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Maine Patterns and Trends in Drug Abuse: June 2007. In Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Volume II, June, 2007. National Institute on Drug Abuse. Washington, DC, pp. 141-149. (http://www.nida.nih.gov/pdf/cewg/Vol1_607.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Maine Trends and Drug Abuse Patterns –January 2007. In Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, January, 2007, pp. 141-149. National Institute on Drug Abuse. Washington, DC., p. 78. (http://www.nida.nih.gov/pdf/cewg/Vol1_107.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Methadone Induced Deaths in Northern New England. Methadone-Associated Mortality: A National Assessment. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Conference Proceedings at www.dpt.samhsa.gov/pdf/Methadone_Report_10%2018%2007_Brief%20w%20attch.pdf Sorg, Marcella H. (2005) Prescription Drug Abuse in Maine. In Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse, Volume II, Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, June 2004, pp. 313-317. National Institute on Drug Abuse. Washington, DC. http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/CEWG/vol2_604.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2005) Maine Community Epidemiology Surveillance Network April 2005 Report. Office of Substance Abuse and Bureau of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, State of Maine. http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/samhs/osa/pubs/data/2005/cesn405.pdf Crist, Thomas, Marcella H. Sorg, Robert Larocque, and Molly Crist (2005) Champlain’s Cemetery: Skeletal Analysis of the First Acadians, Saint Croix Island International Historic Site, Calais, ME. Utica College and University of Maine for Acadia Park, U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service. Sorg, Marcella H. and Thomas A. Crist (2005) African Burial Ground, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Report on the Skeletal Remains Recovered in 2003-2004. In Archaeological Excavations at the Portsmouth African Burial Ground (27-RK-384) Chestnut and Court Streets, Portsmouth (Rockingham County), New Hampshire (Kathleen Wheeler, Independent Archaeological Consulting, LLC) Ball, Carolyn and Marcella H. Sorg, with David Giampetruzzi (2004) Strategic Plan 2004-2008 Needs Assessment Results. Maine Department of Public Safety. Sorg, Marcella H., J. Gerry Mugford and Stevan Gressitt (2004) Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group Annual Report – 2003: A White Paper Summarizing the Survey of the 2002 Data and the Proceedings of the First Annual Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group Conference, 2003. www.noemaine.org/benzo/benzo.htm and www.med.mun.ca/med/pages/research/mugford/MBSG2004.pdf. Sorg, Marcella H. and Margaret Greenwald (2002) Maine Drug-Related Mortality Patterns: 1997-2002. Maine Office of Attorney General, Augusta. www.maine.gov/ag/pr/drugreport.pdf

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REFEREED ABSTRACTS IN PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Thakarar K, Rokas K, Lucas FL, Andrews E, DeMatteo C, Mooney D, Powers S, Rosenblatt JA, Valenti A, Sorg MH, Cohen MC. (2016, November) Infectious Endocarditis and Morbidity: Epidemiological Patterns in the Setting of the Opioid Epidemic. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 3(suppl_1:1117. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw172.820. Sorg, Marcella H., Marie A. Abate, D. Leann Long, Lan Hu, James C. Kraner, James A. Kaplan, and Jamie A. Wren (2014) Accidental Opioid-Induced Deaths: Modeling Relationships of Postmortem Opioid Levels to Co-Intoxicant Benzodiazepine and Alcohol Presence and Selected Decedent Characteristics. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 20: 343-344. Sorg, Marcella H. and Kerriann Marden (2013) Developing Frameworks for Regional Taphonomy Research and Practice: A Multi-Regional Symposium. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 19:454-455. Sorg, Marcella H., Jamie A. Wren and William D. Parker (2013) Regional and Micro-Environmental Taphonomic Variation and Decomposition in Northern New England. Proceedings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 19:463. Sorg, Marcella H., William D. Haglund, and Jamie A. Wren (2012) Taphonomic Impacts of Small and Medium-Sized Scavengers in Northern New England. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 18:400. (extended abstract) Brogdon, B.G., Marcella H. Sorg, Jamie M. Elifritz, Richard M. Scanlon, Hal G. Brown, and Jamie A. Wren (2012) Multidisciplinary Combination of Traditional and New Techniques in the Determination of Identity: The Utility of the Sphenoid Sinus Rediscovered. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 18:422. (extended abstract) Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) Scavenging Impacts on the Progression of Decomposition in Northern New England. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 17:384-385. (extended abstract) Marden, Kerriann and Marcella H. Sorg (2011) Potential Impacts of Regional Ecologies on the Estimation of Postmortem Interval: Case Comparisons from Northern New England. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 17:388-389. (extended abstract) Sorg, Marcella H., William D. Haglund et al. (2010) Developing a Regional Forensic Taphonomy: Climatologic and Other Environmental Inputs. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 16:380. (extended abstract) Brogdon, B.G. Marcella H. Sorg, and Kerriann Marden (2009) Fingering a Murderer: A Successful Anthropological and Radiological Collaboration. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 15:336. (extended abstract)

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Sorg, Marcella H. and J. Gerry Mugford (2008) National and International Epidemiology of Prescription Drug Mortalities, with a Focus on Benzodiazepines. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pharmaceuticals in the Home and Environment: Catalysts for Change and Sixth Annual Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group Conference. J. Gerry Mugford, Marcella H. Sorg, James W. Berry, Terrance Callanan, Stevan Gressitt, and Shweta Pai (2008) Urban and Rural Multiple Site Survey of Physician Benzodiazepine Prescribing Patterns. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Pharmaceuticals in the Home and Environment: Catalysts for Change and Sixth Annual Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group Conference. Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Maine Trends and Drug Abuse Patterns: June 2008. In Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Volume I, June 2008, Highlights and Executive Summary (abstract) Sorg, Marcella H. and Leonard J. Paulozzi (2008) Pharmaceutical and illicit drug mortality in the United States: Trends and research issues. Program of the 136th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. ( HYPERLINK "http://apha.confex.com/apha/136am/webprogram/Session25078.html" http://apha.confex.com/apha/136am/webprogram/Session25078.html) Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends in Maine – Update January 2008. In Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, January 2008, Advance Report, pp. 42-43 (abstract) (http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/CEWG/AdvReport_108.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Maine Trends and Drug Abuse Patterns: June 2007. In Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Volume I, June 2007, Highlights and Executive Summary, pp. 64-65 (abstract) (http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/CEWG/vol1_607.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Maine Trends and Drug Abuse Patterns: January 2007. In Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse: Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, January 2007, Highlights and Executive Summary, pp. 78 (abstract) (http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/CEWG/vol1_107.pdf) Sorg, Marcella H. and Leroy Frazier, Jr (2005) National Violent Death Reporting System Update. Annual Meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners, Los Angeles, CA. (abstract) Benson, JM, Marcella H. Sorg, and Lisa B. Hunter (2004) Multidetector Computerized Tomography (MDCT) Analysis of Skeletal Remains of Members of Samuel de Champlain’s 1604 Settlement on Isle de Ste Croix. Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL (abstract). Sorg, Marcella H., Margaret Greenwald and Michael Ferenc (2004) The Role of Methadone in Drug-Induced and Drug-Related Deaths in Maine 1997-2002. Annual Meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners, San Diego, CA (abstract).

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Sorg, Marcella H., Lisa B. Hunter, and John M. Benson (2004) The Use of Computerized Tomography and Radiography in Examining Colonists of Samuel de Champlain’s 1604 Settlement of Isle de Ste. Croix. 37th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Louis, MO (abstract). Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) State Level Data: Maine. Proceedings from Methadone-Associated Mortality: A National Assessment, Arlington, VA. (abstract). Sorg, Marcella H., Edward David, and Henry F. Ryan (1998) Skeleton in the Woods: Doing More with Less. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of The American Academy of Forensic Sciences 4:205. (Extended abstract) Sorg, Marcella H., Edward David, Henry F. Ryan, and Kristin Sweeney (1997) Outdoor Recovery, Taphonomy, and Postmortem Interval in Northern New England. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 3:152. (Extended abstract) Sorg, Marcella H. (1996) Usage of the Forensic Databank at the University of Tennessee Among Forensic Anthropologists. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 2:174-175. (Extended abstract) Reichs, Kathleen J., William C. Rodriguez, and Marcella H. Sorg (1995) Forensic Anthropology at the Federal Level, Within a State/Provincial System, in Private Practice. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences

1:163-164. (Extended abstract) Sorg, Marcella H., John H. Dearborn, Kristin G. Sweeney, Henry F. Ryan, and William C. Rodriguez (1995) Marine Taphonomy of a Case Submerged for 32 Years. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences 1:156-157. (Extended abstract) Sorg, Marcella H., Henry F. Ryan, John H. Dearborn, and Elizabeth I. Monahan (1993) Forensic Taphonomy in Marine Contexts: Estimating Time Since Death. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. (Abstract) Sorg, Marcella H. (1986) Scavenger Modification of Human Remains. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. (Abstract) Mead, Jim I. and Marcella H. Sorg (1983) Constructing Analogues of Bone Modification through the Study of Wolf Behavior. Abstracts of the First International Conference on Bone Modification, pp. 23-25. Sorg, Marcella H., Robert P. Andrews, and Edward David (1982) Timing of Epiphyseal Union of the Medial Clavicle in White Females. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. (Abstract) Sorg, Marcella H. and Beatrice C. Craig (1981) Patterns of Infant Mortality in the Upper St. John River Valley French Population: 1791-1838. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 54(2):280. (Abstract)

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Sorg, Marcella H. (1980) Identifying Spatial and Temporal Deme Boundaries During its Formative Stages. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 52(2):282. (Abstract) Sorg, Marcella H. (1978) Genetic Demography of the Franco-American Community of Old Town, Maine. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 48(3):439. (Abstract) TESTIMONY FOR GOVERNMENT HEARINGS Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) Invited testimony on Maine’s drug abuse problems and the role of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center in monitoring these problems. Maine State Joint Health and Human Services Committee. Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) HP0737, LD 1070, item 1, 124th Maine State Legislature Resolve, Directing the University of Maine at Orono To Conduct a Pilot Project Regarding the Benefits of Medical Marijuana. Testimony before the Maine State Health and Human Services Committee on behalf of the University of Maine, April 15, 2009. Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Proposed Use of the Byrne JAG Program Funding. Testimony before the Maine Justice Assistance Council, March 2, 2009, Augusta, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) Drug-Related Mortality Patterns in Maine. Invited Written Testimony, Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, August 5, Bangor, ME. PUBLICATIONS: OTHER MEDIA Sorg, Marcella H. and Andrew Collar (2011) Regional Taphonomy Project, DVD covering winter scavenging patterns. Digital Spirit Media, Waterville, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (editor) (1984-7) Mammoth Trumpet, A quarterly newspaper reporting research on the prehistoric peopling of the Americas. Orono, ME, Center for the Study of the First Americans. (Vols. 1-4) Gilbert, Jane, Roberta Chester, and Marcella H. Sorg (1983) When Neighbors Were Neighbors: Elders in Rural Maine Since 1880. Maine Humanities Council and Hancock County Cooperative Extension Service. Slide-tape presentation and photograph exhibit with excerpted interviews of third-generation Hancock County residents. Pelletier, Raymond and Marcella H. Sorg (editors) (1982) Notre Vie, Notre Travail/Our Life, Our Work. Maine Humanities Council. (Bilingual filmstrip, audiocassette and captioned photograph exhibit) Maine Public Broadcasting Network (1980) Reflets et Lumière II: Porte Ouverte sur… Maine Council on Humanities and Public Policy. Eight-part television series on Franco-Americans. (Co-producers/editors: Marcella H. Sorg, Raymond Pelletier, Yvon Labbé, Stephan Duplessis, Ludger Duplessis)

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PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS, INVITED LECTURES, INVITED PUBLIC TESTIMONY [Note: Presentations in Forensic Epidemiology, Public Health and Public Safety Policy begin after the Forensic Anthropology/Taphonomy Section.] Presentations in Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Taphonomy Sorg, Marcella H. (2017, December) Regional Issues in Decomposition and Recovery of Remains. New England Division of the International Association for Identification. Portsmouth NH (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2017, August) Patterned Bone Injury. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences. Colby College. Waterville ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. and Margaret Greenwald (2017, August) Margarita Scott Case. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences. Colby College. Waterville ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2017, August) Forensic Anthropology and Taphonomy. New Hampshire Prosecutors Annual Meeting. Portsmouth NH (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2017, June) Anthropology Contributions to Evidence Response Team Investigations. Maine State Police Evidence Response Team Annual Training. Winter Harbor ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2016, August) Time Since Death: Anthropological Perspective. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences. Colby College, Waterville ME (Invited) Pickering, Thomas D, Marcella H. Sorg, and Abbe Chabot (2016, August) Morse-No remorse: An Interesting Case from Maine. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences. Colby College, Waterville ME (Invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2016, March) Decomposition, Insects & Scavengers: A Practical Approach. Maine State Policy Evidence Response Team Training. Maine Criminal Justice Academy, Vassalboro, ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. and Jonah C. O’Roak (2015, December) Cold case homicide: Woodburn Case. Maine State Policy Evidence Response Team Training. Maine Criminal Justice Academy, Vassalboro, ME. (invited) Greenwald, Margaret* and Marcella H. Sorg* (2015) Outdoor scenes: Combining Anthropology and Forensic Pathology. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences. Colby College, August 2015, Waterville ME (invited) O’Roak, Jonah and Marcella H. Sorg (2015) An interesting cold case. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences. Colby College, August, 2015, Waterville, ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. and Jamie A. Wren (2014) Identifying Antemortem Injury and Disease from the Skeleton. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences. Colby College, August, 2014, Waterville, ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2014) Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Nursing. Maine Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners, April, 2014, Augusta, ME (invited)

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Update on Forensic Taphonomy Topics. Joint Maine Search and Rescue Dog and State K-9 Training Session, December, 2013, Maine Criminal Justice Academy, Vassalboro, ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. and Jamie A. Wren (2013) Regional Taphonomy. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences. Colby College, August, 2013, Waterville, ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Northern New England Taphonomic Complex. Central Identification Laboratory, Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command, August 2013, Honolulu, HI (Invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Recognizing Human Skeletal Remains. Maine Search and Rescue Annual Training Conference, May, 2013, Ellsworth, ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Climate Impacts on Decomposition in Forensic Taphonomy: A Pilot Study. 21st Annual Harold W. Borns, Jr. Symposium, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono ME. Sorg, Marcella H. and Kerriann Marden (2013) Developing Frameworks for Regional Forensic Taphonomy Research and Practice: A Multi-Regional Symposium. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Washington, DC. Sorg, Marcella H., Jamie A. Wren, and William D. Parker (2013) Regional and Micro-Environmental Taphonomic Variation and Decomposition in Northern New England. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Washington, DC. Sorg, Marcella H. (2012) Issues in Regional Taphonomy. Boston University Medical School and Forensic Anthropology Graduate Program, Cambridge, MA. (invited lecture) Sorg, Marcella H. (2012) Biological Clocks. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences. Colby College, Waterville, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. and Edward David (2012) Human Remains Outdoors: Search and Recovery Protocol. Annual Training Event for the Maine State Police Evidence Response Team. Winter Harbor, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2012) Outdoor Scenes: Issues in Recovery and Estimating Postmortem Interval. New Hampshire Deputy Medical Examiners Training, Concord NH. Sorg, Marcella H., William D. Haglund, and Jamie A. Wren (2012) Taphonomic Impacts of Small and Medium-Sized Scavengers in Northern New England. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Atlanta GA. Brogdon, Gil, Marcella H. Sorg, Jamie M. Elifritz, Richard M. Scanlon, Hal G. Brown, and Jamie A. Wren (2012) Multidisciplinary Combination of Traditional and New Techniques in the Determination of Identity: The Utility of the Sphenoid Sinus Rediscovered. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Atlanta GA.

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) Scavenging Impacts on the Progression of Decomposition in Northern New England. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Chicago IL. Marden, Kerriann and Marcella H. Sorg (2011) Potential Impacts of Regional Ecologies on the Estimation of Postmortem Interval: Case comparisons from northern New England. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Chicago IL. Sorg, Marcella H. and Scott A. Bryant (2011) Standardized Regional Taphonomy Approach: Improving Evidence Recovery and PMI Interpretation. Annual Meeting of the National Institute of Justice, Arlington VA. Sorg, Marcella H. and Andrew Collar (2011) Scavenger Guild Involvement with Pig Cadavers in the Maine Woods: Taphonomic Analysis. Annual Meeting of the National Institute of Justice, Arlington VA. (video DVD presentation). Sorg, Marcella H. and Jamie A. Wren (2011) Taphonomic Impacts of Scavenging in Northern New England. Annual Meeting of the National Institute of Justice, Arlington VA. (poster) Marden, Kerriann and Marcella H. Sorg (2011) Seasonal Differences in Scavenger Impacts and Postmortem Estimates in Two Maine Cases. Annual Meeting of the National Institute of Justice, Arlington VA. (poster) Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) Decomposition Study: ERT Issues, Assessment, Procedures. Annual Training Event for the Maine State Police Evidence Response Team. Maine Criminal Justice Academy, Vassalboro, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) Developing Biological Profiles for Decomposed and Skeletal Remains. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, Waterville ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Decomposition. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, Waterville ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Bog Brook Bugs and Weather. Maine State Police Evidence Response Team Annual Bog Brook Training Workshop. Bog Brook Training Facility, ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Developing Regional Taphonomy Standards for Forensic Death Investigation. Regional Taphonomy Annual Workshop. University of Maine, Orono ME. Sorg, Marcella H., William Haglund et al. (2010) Developing a Regional Forensic Taphonomy: Climatologic and Environmental Inputs. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Seattle, WA. Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Outdoor Scene Death Investigation in the Northeast. Meeting of the New England Division of the International Association for Identification, Freeport ME (Invited).

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Sorg, Marcella H., Harold Borns et al. (2009) Developing a Regional Forensic Taphonomy: Climatologic and Other Environmental Inputs. Climate Change Institute Annual Borns Symposium, Orono ME Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Fire, Fragmentation and Bone. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, Waterville ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Developing a Regional Forensic Taphonomy: Climatologic and Environmental Inputs. Grantees Meeting, National Institute of Justice. Department of Justice, Bethesda MD. Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Maine Taphonomy Workshop Overview. Interdisciplinary Team Workshop on Developing Regional Taphonomic Standards for the Northeast. Maine Criminal Justice Academy, Vassalboro, ME. Brogdon, B.G. Marcella H. Sorg, and Kerriann Marden (2009) Fingering a Murderer: A Successful Anthropological and Radiological Collaboration. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Denver, CO. Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Approaches to the Outdoor Scene. Maine State Police Evidence Response Team Training, Police Academy, Vassalboro, ME Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Identification of Burned, Fragmented or Decomposed Remains. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2006) The Skeletons of St. Croix: Biological and Medical Aspects of the Skeletons from the 1604 Settlement of Isle de Sainte-Croix. Penobscot Senior College, Bangor, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. 2006) Patterned Bone Injury. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2005) Physical Anthropology, Critters and Other Artifacts. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Benson, JM*, Marcella H. Sorg, and Lisa B. Hunter (2004) Multidetector Computerized Tomography (MDCT) Analysis of Skeletal Remains of Members of Samuel de Champlain’s 1604 Settlement on Isle de Ste Croix. Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL. Crist, Thomas A. and Marcella H. Sorg (2004) We Opened Several of Them to Determine the Cause of Their Illness: Samuel de Champlain and the New World’s First Adult Autopsy, L’Isle Sainte-Croix, 1604-1605. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Dallas, TX. Sorg, Marcella H., Thomas Crist, John Benson, Robert Laroque, Lisa B. Hunter. (2004) Biological and Medical Aspects of the Skeletons from the 1604 Settlement of Isle de Ste. Croix. Heritage Lecture, Calais, ME.

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Sorg, Marcella H., Lisa B. Hunter, and John M. Benson (2004) The Use of Computerized Tomography and Radiography in Examining Colonists of Samuel de Champlain’s 1604 Settlement of Isle de Ste. Croix. 37th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Louis, MO. Sorg, Marcella H. (2004) Forensic Anthropology. Invited presentation, Introduction to Forensic Sciences, Orono, Maine. Sorg, Marcella H. (2004) Interpreting Postmortem Change. Invited presentation, International Association of Identification, New England Division. Portland, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2004) Interpreting Postmortem Change: Forensic Taphonomy Perspective. Invited presentation, Ancient DNA Internship Program, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. Sorg, Marcella H. (2004) Bodies in Water – Long Interval. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) Ante- v. Postmortem Taphonomy. 19th Annual Northeast Forensic Anthropology Association Meeting, Utica, NY. Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) Ante- v. Postmortem Taphonomy. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) Interpreting Postmortem Change. Southern Forensic Institute, First Annual Blues and Clues Workshop, New Orleans, LA. Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) Skeleton in the Woods: Doing More with Less. Penobscot Valley Senior College. Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) Forensic Investigation of Crew of Samuel Champlain, St. Croix Island. National Park Service Press Conference, Calais, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2002) Human Remains: Taphonomic Perspectives on Terrestrial and Marine Exposure. Invited Presentation, Department of Biological Sciences Seminar Series, University of Maine. Sorg, Marcela H. (2002) Marine Taphonomy in the Gulf of Maine. 18th Annual Northeast Forensic Anthropology Association Meeting, Orono, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2002) Advancing Forensic Taphonomy. 4th Annual Forensic Mini-Conference, California State University, Chico, CA. Sorg, Marcella H. (2002) Medicolegal Death Investigation and Forensic Taphonomy. 4th Annual Forensic Mini-Conference, California State University, Chico, CA.

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2002) Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Taphonomy. 4th Annual Forensic Mini-Conference, California State University, Chico, CA. Sorg, Marcella H. (2001) Interpreting Skeletal Remains in Special Microenvironments. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2001) Stress and Disease Markers in the Infant Skeleton. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. and Edward David (2001) Forensic Science and the Recovery of Human Remains. College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2000) Forensic Anthropology: Advances 1980-2000. New England Seminar in the Forensic Sciences. Colby College, Waterville, ME. Sorg, Marcella H., Edward David, and Henry F. Ryan (1998) Skeleton in the Woods: Doing More with Less. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Sorg, Marcella H., Edward David, Henry F. Ryan, and Kristin Sweeney (1997) Outdoor Recovery, Taphonomy, and Post Mortem Interval in Northern New England. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Sorg, Marcella H. (1996) Usage of the Forensic Databank at the University of Tennessee among Forensic Anthropologists. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Sorg, Marcella H., John H. Dearborn, Kristin G. Sweeney, Henry F. Ryan, and William C. Rodriguez (1995) Marine Taphonomy of a Case Submerged for 32 Years. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Sorg, Marcella H., Kathleen J. Reichs, and William C. Rodriquez (1995) Forensic Anthropology at the Federal Level, Within a State/Provincial System, in Private Practice. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Sorg, Marcella H.*, Henry F. Ryan, John H. Dearborn, and Elizabeth I. Monahan (1993) Forensic Taphonomy in Marine Contexts: Estimating Time Since Death. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. Sorg, Marcella H. (1983) Infant Mortality among Clients of Martha Moore Ballard in Hallowell. From Revolution to Statehood: 1783-1820, a Conference Funded by the Maine Humanities Council. Sorg, Marcella H.*, Robert P. Andrews, and Edward David (1983) Timing of Epiphyseal Union of the Medial Clavicle in White Females. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

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Presentations in Forensic Epidemiology, Public Health and Public Safety Policy Sorg, Marcella H. (2017, September) Drug Death Patterns in Maine During the First Six Months of 2017. Biannual Meeting of the State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup, Augusta ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2017, September) Maine Heroin and Fentanyl Indicators, 2017 2nd Quarter Update. Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Heroin Coordination Group, Federal Interagency Implementation Webinar presentation. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2017, July) Update on Overdose -Related Projects. Opioid Data Subcommittee of the State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup, Augusta ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2017, May) Maine Heroin and Fentanyl Indicators, 2017 1st Quarter Update. Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Heroin Coordination Group, Federal Interagency Implementation Webinar presentation. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2017, May) Maine Heroin and Fentanyl Indicators. Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Heroin Coordination Group. Webinar presentation. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2017, May) Update on Overdose Projects. State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup. Opioid Subcommittee Augusta, ME (invited) Jamie A. Wren, Marcella H. Sorg, Margaret Greenwald (2017, April) MV-VDRS Overview and Preliminary Data. Vermont MV-VDRS Advisory Group Meeting. Greenwald, Margaret, Marcella H. Sorg, Jamie A. Wren (2017, February) MV-VDRS Overview and Preliminary Data. Maine Chiefs of Police Annual Meeting, Portland, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2017, January) Overview of New Hampshire HotSpot Mortality Project. National Drug Early Warning System Scientific Advisory Group webinar.(invited) Thakarar K, Rokas K, Lucas FL, Andrews E, DeMatteo C, Mooney D, Powers S, Rosenblatt JA, Valenti A, Sorg MH, Cohen MC. (2016, November) Infectious Endocarditis and Morbidity: Epidemiological Patterns in the Setting of the Opioid Epidemic. Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse National Conference, Washington DC. Sorg, Marcella H. (2016, November) Update on Overdose Projects. State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup. Opioid Subcommittee Augusta, ME (invited) Thakarar K, Rokas K, Lucas FL, Andrews E, DeMatteo C, Mooney D, Powers S, Rosenblatt JA, Valenti A, Sorg MH, Cohen MC. (2016, October) Infectious Endocarditis and Morbidity: Epidemiological Patterns in the Setting of the Opioid Epidemic. Infectious Disease Society of American National Conference, New Orleans, LA.

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Sorg, Marcella H (2016, September) Heroin, Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Trends in Maine. National Drug Early Warning System Meeting of Sentinel Community Epidemiologists, Webinar. Sorg, Marcella H. (2016, August) Maine’s Fatal Overdose Data. State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup, Augusta, ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. and Jamie A. Wren (2016, May) Maine-Vermont Violent Death Reporting System: First Data Year. Vermont Suicide Data Working Group, Burlington VT (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. and Margaret Greenwald (2016, May) Maine-Vermont Violent Death Reporting System: A Two-State Partnership. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, NVDRS Grantees Reverse Site Visit, San Antonio TX (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2016, May) The Human Cost of Opioid Addiction in Maine. Statewide Opioid Collaborative, Hallowell ME (invited) Thakarar, Kinna*, Dristina Rokas, Lee Lucas, Elizabeth Andrews, Christina DeMatteo, Deirdre Mooney, Spencer Powers, Rosenblatt, August Valenti, Marcella H. Sorg, Mylan Cohen. (2016, October) Infectious Endocarditis and Morbidity: Epidemiological Patterns in the Setting of the Opioid Epidemic. Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America, Boston MA Sorg, Marcella H. (2015, November) Preliminary Analysis of Law Enforcement-Related Indicators of Heroin and Opioid Abuse and Trafficking. Governor’s Anti-Heroin and Opiate Committee, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Portland ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2015, September) Substance Abuse in Maine. Hanley Physician Leadership Academy, Brunswick, ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H.* and Margaret Greenwald* (2015, August) Tracking Drug Deaths in the Medical Examiner Setting. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, August, 2015, Waterville ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2015, August) Drug Deaths, Particularly Heroin and Fentanyl. Maine Governor’s Drug Summit. August 2015; Augusta ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2015, July) Drug Abuse and Overdose: Focus on Portland and Cumberland County. Portland Public Health Department Drug Abuse Task Force, Portland City Hall, Portland ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H.* Marie A. Abate, D. Leann Long, James A. Kaplan, James C. Kraner, Allen R. Mock, Margaret Greenwald, Thomas A. Andrew, Steven Shapiro, Jamie A. Wren (2014) Postmortem Opioid Levels, Co-Intoxicant Presence, and Decedent Characteristic in Single Opioid Deaths in West Virginia and Northern New England. Annual Meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners, September, 2014, Portland, OR. Abate, Marie A*., Marcella H. Sorg, D. Leann Long, James A. Kaplan, James C. Kraner, Allen R. Mock, Margaret Greenwald, Thomas A. Andrew, Steven Shapiro, Elvy Varghese. (2014) Characterization of Diphenhydramine-Related Overdose Deaths. Annual Meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners, September, 2014, Portland, OR.

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2014) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends: Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, June, 2014, Scottsdale, AZ (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2014) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends: Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, January, 2014, webinar (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2014) Prescription Drug Abuse and Mortality in Maine. School of Pharmacy. Hasson University, Bangor, ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H.,* Marie A. Abate, D. Leann Long, Lan Hu, James C. Kraner, James A. Kaplan, and Jamie A. Wren (2014) Accidental Opioid-Induced Deaths: Modeling Relationships of Postmortem Opioid Levels to Co-Intoxicant Benzodiazepine and Alcohol Presence and Selected Decedent Characteristics. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, February, 2014, Seattle, WA. Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Economic Cost of Alcohol and Drug Abuse 2010: Final Report. Kennebec And Somerset County Overdose Prevention Task Force. July 2013 Maine General Hospital, Augusta, ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Drug Abuse Report from Maine National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, June 2013, St. Louis, MO. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Economic Cost of Alcohol and Drug Abuse 2010: Final Report. Maine Community Epidemiology Surveillance Network, May, 2013, Augusta, ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Drug Abuse Report from Maine. Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Abuse, Meeting of the National Network. May, 2013, Toronto, Ontario. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Using Mortality Data. Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Abuse, Meeting of the National Network. May, 2013, Toronto, Ontario. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Maine’s Medical Examiner System. Dirigo Pines, April, 2013, Orono, ME. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Drug Abuse Indicators Update. Kennebec and Somerset County Overdose Prevention Task Force. March, 2013, Augusta, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2013) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends: Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, January, 2013, Albuquerque, NM (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2012) National Association of Medical Examiners and NVDRS. National Violent Death Reporting System Reverse Site Visit, Atlanta, GA. (invited)

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2012) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends: Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, June, 2012, Palm Springs, CA (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2012) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends: Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, January, 2012, San Antonio TX (invited). Sorg, Marcella H*. and Jamie A. Wren* (2012) Economic Cost of Alcohol and Drug Abuse 2010: Preliminary Data. Meeting of the Maine Community Epidemiology Surveillance Network, Augusta ME (invited). Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in Maine. Attorney General’s Prescription Drug Abuse Summit, 2011: Mapping a Course of Action, Northport ME (invited). Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends: Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, June, 2011, Seattle, WA (invited). Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) Maine Drug Statistics Report. Kennebec & Somerset Counties Overdose Prevention Task Force Meeting, Augusta ME (invited). Sorg, Marcella H.* and Steven Clark* (2011) Use of Electronic Database to Capture Medical Examiner/Coroner Data. Reverse Site Visit, National Violent Death Reporting System, Division of Violence Prevention, The Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta GA (invited). Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) The NamUs System: A New Tool for Maine to Link Missing Person Information with Unidentified Remains. Chiefs Meeting, Department of Public Safety, Augusta ME (invited). Sorg, Marcella H. (2011) Drug Abuse Patterns and Trends: Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, January, 2011, Phoenix, AZ (invited). Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Telemedicine Practitioner Survey 2007: How Have Things Changed? Federation of State Medical Boards License Portability and Telemedicine Meeting. Santa Fe NM (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) National Association of Medical Examiners and the National Violent Death Reporting System. Centers for Disease Control, Division of Violence Prevention, NVDRS Reverse Site Visit, Atlanta GA (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Prescription Drug Diversion Data in Maine. Maine Pharmacy Association. Freeport ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Drug-Induced Deaths in Kennebec and Somerset Counties. Overdose Prevention Team Meeting, Augusta ME (invited)

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Overdose Update Through 2009. Overdose Prevention Steering Committee, Kennebec, Penobscot, Somerset, and Piscataquis Counties. Augusta, ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, June, 2010, Boston MA (invited). Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, January, 2010, San Diego, CA (invited). Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Update on Maine’s Drug Abuse Indicators. Meeting of the Maine Substance Abuse Services Commission (invited). Sorg, Marcella H. (2010) Maine Substance Abuse Indicators with and Update on Drug-Induced Deaths in Kennebec and Somerset Counties. Meeting of the Overdose Prevention Team for Kennebec and Somerset Counties (invited). Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) The Role of State Medical Examiner Data in the Prescription Drug Problem: Affecting Policy. State Strategies in Addressing Prescription Drug Mortality. Centers for Disease Control, Nation Center for Injury Prevention and Control (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Evaluation of the Maine State Prescription Monitoring Program: FY 205-2008. Prescription Drug Task Force of the Office of U. S. Attorney. Portland ME (invited). Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Participation by Prescribers and Dispensers in the Maine State Prescription Monitoring Program: FY 2005-2008: Final Report. Maine Prescription Monitoring Program Advisory Board, Augusta, ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H.* and J. Gerry Mugford* (2009) Changing Epidemiological Patterns in the Misuse and Abuse of Pharmaceuticals. International Symposium on Pharmaceuticals in the Home and Environment and Seventh Annual Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group Conference, Northport ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Report on Drug Abuse in Maine, March 2009. Portland Overdose Prevention Task Force. Portland, ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Effects of Expediting Physician Licensure: Evaluating Outcomes. Federation of State Medical Boards, License Portability Project. (West Group, Omaha NB; Northeast Group, Boston MA) Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Youth Statistics in Maine Drug Abuse: Preliminary Survey. Substance Abuse Services Commission, Augusta ME (invited)

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Participation by Prescribers and Dispensers in the Maine State Prescription Monitoring Program: FY 2005-2008: Preliminary Findings. Maine Prescription Monitoring Program Advisory Board, Augusta, ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Recent Methadone Trends in Maine. Methadone Associated Overdose Mortality Assessment Meeting. Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Diversion Control, Arlington, VA (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, June 2009, Chicago, IL (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, January 2009, Bethesda, MD (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2009) The Role of Medical Examiner and Coroner Systems in Opiate/Opioid Poisoning Deaths. National Poison Work Group. U.S. HRSA, Crystal City MD (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. and Leonard J. Paulozzi (2008) Pharmaceutical and Illicit Drug Mortality in the United States: Trends and Research Issues. American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Pharmaceutical Drug Mortality. Clinical Epidemiology Seminar Series, Memorial University, Newfoundland, CA. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Street Drug Training: Data on Maine Deaths due to Drug Overdose. Kennebec County Overdose Prevention Task Force, Waterville, ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Drug Addiction: Theirs and Ours. Penobscot Valley Senior College, Bangor, ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Epidemiology of Drug Abuse. New England Seminar in Forensic Sciences, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, June 2008, Bethesda, MD (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2008) Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, January 2008, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup, June 2007, Philadelphia, PA (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Report from Maine. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup. January 2007, San Antonio TX (invited)

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Using Mortality Data. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup. January 2007, San Antonio TX (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) CESN Drug Indicators Summary for March 2007. Maine Community Epidemiology Surveillance Network, Augusta ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) “Location, location, location”: Applying GIS for Drug Abuse Surveillance. Community Epidemiology Work Group Evaluation Workshop, Washington, DC. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Rural Drug Abuse Surveillance: Issues for Discussion. Community Epidemiology Work Group Evaluation Workshop, Washington, DC. (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Maine’s Substance Abuse Indicators 2007, Invited presentation, Substance Abuse Services Commission, Augusta ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Report from Maine. National Institute of Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup. January 2007, Philadelphia PA (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Using Mortality Data. National Institute of Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup. January 2007, Philadelphia PA (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Methadone Induced Deaths in Northern New England, Methadone-Associated Mortality: A National Assessment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Drug Abuse Mortality in Cumberland County Update. Portland Overdose Prevention Task Force. Portland ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. and J. Gerry Mugford (2007) Epidemiology of Benzodiazepine Prescribing and Use, 5th Annual Benzodiazepine Study Group Conference, Portland ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Morbidity and Mortality Related to Pharmaceuticals. Task Force on Prescribing Issues and Patient Diversion of Drugs. Maine U. S. Attorney’s Office, Portland ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Substance Abuse Profile for Maine and Penobscot County. Providers Conference. Acadia Hospital, Bangor ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Substance Abuse Profile for Washington County. Washington County Drug Abuse Task Force, Machias ME (invited)

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2007) Community Epidemiology Work Group Report and Drug Mortality Report to the State Epidemiology Workgroup, Office of Substance Abuse, Augusta ME (invited) Sorg, Marcella H. (2006) Drug Related Mortality: Maine & Kennebec County. Invited presentation, Kennebec County Opiate Overdose Meeting, Waterville, ME Sorg, Marcella H. (2006) Drug-Related Mortality in Maine. Invited presentation, Maine Injury Prevention Program, Injury Prevention and Control Project, Augusta, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2006) Update of Maine Mortality Data. Invited presentation, Substance Abuse Services Commission, Augusta, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. and Parker, W. (2006) Analysis of Drug Abuse/Misuse Patterns in Rural Areas Using a Geographic Information Systems Approach. National Institute of Drug Abuse/Association of American Geographers, Symposium on Geography and Drug Addiction. Chicago, IL. Hayes, Marie and Sorg, Marcella H. (2006) Drug Affected Babies: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis. 12th Annual Child Welfare Conference, Bangor, ME Mugford, J. Gerry and Marcella H. Sorg (2006) Perspectives on Benzodiazepine Prevalence. Fourth Annual Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group Conference, Bangor ME. Mugford, J. Gerry and Marcella H. Sorg (2005) Perspectives on Benzodiazepine Prevalence. Third Annual Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group Conference, Bangor ME Mugford, J. Gerry and Marcella H. Sorg (2004) Perspectives on Benzodiazepine Use and Abuse. Second Annual Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group Conference. Bangor, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2005) Report from Maine. National Institute of Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgoup. January 2005. Sorg, Marcella H. (2005) Invited public testimony at “Regarding the Impact of the New Edward J. Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program on Maine’s Drug Enforcement Agency” Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. March 2005. Sorg, Marcella H. (2004) Prescription Drug Morbidity and Mortality in Maine. Invited presentation, Board of Licensure in Medicine, State of Maine. Sorg, Marcella H. (2004) The Rapid Response Program: Issues in Rural Service Delivery, Partnerships, and Evaluation. Bureau of Justice Assistance Project Development and Implementation Training.

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2004) Maine Community Epidemiology Surveillance Network. National Institute of Drug Abuse, Community Epidemiology Workgroup. Report from Maine CESN, June 2004. Sorg, Marcella H. (2004) Forensic Nursing: An Emerging Role for the 21st Century. Invited presentation, Omicron Xi Chapter-at-Large, Bangor, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2004) Maine Rural Substance Abuse Partnership. University of Maine at Machias. Sorg, Marcella H., Margaret Greenwald and Michael Ferenc (2004) The Role of Methadone in Drug-Induced and Drug-Related Deaths in Maine 1997-2002. Annual Meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners, Nashville, TN. Heimer, Robert, Mark Kinzly, Anthony Givens, Marcella H. Sorg, Margaret Greenwald (2003) Fatal Opiate Overdoses in Connecticut and Maine. American Public Health Association Session: Epidemic of Drug Overdose: Its Determinants and Remedies, San Francisco, CA. Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) National Violent Death Reporting System Evaluation Issues Related to Medical Examiners' Offices. National Violent Death Reporting System Pilot Sites Training Conference, the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA. Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) Drug-Related Mortality Patterns in Maine. Invited Testimony, Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, August 5, Bangor, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) Investigating Poisonings and Analysis of Mortality Patterns: Public Health Perspectives in Forensic Toxicology and Pharmacoepidemiology. Invited presentation, Introduction to Forensic Sciences, Orono, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) Drug Abuse in Washington County: Issues and Strategies. Washington County Twin Summit Conference on Drug Abuse, Calais and Machias, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2003) Benzodiazepine Toxicology in Maine Drug-Related Deaths. Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group Meeting, Bangor, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. and Margaret Greenwald (2003) Methadone-Associated Deaths in Maine, 1997-2002. Methadone Associated Mortality: A National Assessment Workshop, Arlington, VA. Sorg, Marcella H., Stevan Gressitt, and Lisa B. Hunter (2003) Conference Overview and Mission. First Annual Maine Benzodiazepine Study Group Conference: Information for Action. Bangor, ME. Bicknell, Elizabeth and Marcella H. Sorg (2002) A Rural Model of Community-Based Interdisciplinary Service Learning. Association of Community Health Nursing Educators, St. Louis, MO. Heimer, Robert, Mark L. Kinzly, Anthony Givens, and Marcella H. Sorg (2002) Opiate Overdose Deaths in Connecticut and Maine. Fourth National Harm Reduction Conference. Seattle, WA.

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Sorg, Marcella H. (2002) Rapid Response Program in Maine: An Assessment of Need. Workshop on Children's Trauma: The Effects of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Attorney General's Conference on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Augusta, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2002) Opiate Deaths in Maine:1997-2002. Invited presentation, Meeting of Opiate Task Force, Maine Office of Substance Abuse and Maine Center for Public Health, Manchester, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2002) Medicolegal Issues in Nursing. Invited Presentation, School of Nursing Seminar. University of Maine, Orono, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. and Margaret Greenwald (2002) Drug-Related Deaths in Maine. Attorney General's Press Conference on Drug Deaths, Augusta, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2002) Methadone-Related Deaths in Maine. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Practices Meeting, SAMHSA, Rockville, MD. Sorg, Marcella H. (2002) Preliminary Report on Drug Related Deaths. Maine Justice Assistance Council, Manchester, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. (2001) A Brief Survey of Forensic Nursing. Invited presentation, UM School of Nursing, Partnership Appreciation Day. Sorg, Marcella H. (2001) Maine Children Exposed to Traumatic Events: A Preliminary Needs Assessment. Maine Rapid Response Program Sponsors Symposium, Bar Harbor, ME. Sorg, Marcella H. and Joann Kovacich (2001) Grantee Case Report. Quentin N. Burdick Program for Rural Interdisciplinary Training Meeting Dallas, TX. Sorg, Marcella H. and Arvind Patel (2001) Technology and the Future of Health Care. Governor's Conference on Aging, Augusta, ME. Cook, Cristanna, Marcella H. Sorg, and Joann Kovacich (2000) Easing Evaluation Data Gathering for Interdisciplinary Training Using an Innovative Graphical User Interface: Discussion and Demonstration. Interdisciplinary Health Care Team Conference, Las Vegas, NV. Flecky, Kathleen and Marcella H. Sorg (2000) Empowering Students and Clients: Lessons Learned from Occupational Therapy Students for Enhancing Infant Mental Health Services. Interdisciplinary Health Care Team Conference, Las Vegas, NV. Ordway, Janet E. and Marcella H. Sorg (2000) Building the Local Mental Health Care Workforce: Challenges of an Academic-Community Partnership. Partnerships for Health in the New Millennium: Launching Healthy People 2010, Washington, D.C.

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Sorg, Marcella H. and Joann Kovacich (2000) Managing Diversity in Academic-Community Partnerships. Interdisciplinary Health Care Team Conference, Las Vegas, NV. Ordway, Janet E. and Marcella H. Sorg* A Rural Academic-Community Partnership Model: (1999) Building Local Workforce Capacity for Children’s Mental Health. Interdisciplinary Health Care Team Conference, Louisville, KY. Sorg, Marcella H. and Joann Kovacich (1999) Levels of Partnership Integration: Costs and Benefits. A Cross-Program Conference for Allied Health, Chiropractic, Geriatric Education Centers, and Interdisciplinary Rural Training Programs, Las Vegas, NV. Sorg, Marcella H. and Joann Kovacich (1999) Building Academic-Community Partnerships for Maine’s Health Care Workforce. A Cross-Program Conference for Allied Health, Chiropractic, Geriatric Education Centers, and Interdisciplinary Rural Training Programs, Las Vegas, NV. Cook, Cristanna, Joann Kovacich, and Marcella H. Sorg (1998) Adapting Evaluation Techniques for Interdisciplinary Health Care Programs: The ITHCRA Experience. Interdisciplinary Health Care Team Conference, Louisville, KY. Sorg, Marcella H. and Dean Cleghorn (1998) Health Care Consortia as Learning Organizations. Annual Meeting of the Maine Rural Health Association. Sorg, Marcella H. Joann Kovacich, and Shirley Weaver (1998) Academic-Community-Government Partnership Building: Developing a Common Language. Leadership in Collaborative Practice: A Cross-Program Conference for Allied Health, Chiropractic, Geriatric Education Centers, and Interdisciplinary Rural Training Programs, Las Vegas, NV. Sorg, Marcella H.* and Beatrice C. Craig (1981) Patterns of Infant Mortality in the Upper St. John River Valley French Population: 1791-1838. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Physical Anthropology. Sorg, Marcella H. (1980) Identifying Spatial and Temporal Deme Boundaries During its Formative Stages. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Physical Anthropology. COURSES TAUGHT: Department of Anthropology, University of Maine Human Osteology Introduction to Forensic Anthropology Zooarchaeology Prehistory and Human Evolution Introduction to Biological/Physical Anthropology Human Evolution Zooarchaeology Medical Anthropology Nutritional Anthropology Forensic Anthropology Cultural Ecology

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Faunal Analysis (co-taught) Franco-American and French-Canadian Ethnography French-Canadian and Franco-American Demography School of Nursing, University of Maine Issues in the Forensic Investigation of Death and Injury (co-taught with Chief Medical Examiner of Maine) Health Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice Sociocultural Issues in Health and Health Care (co-taught with Nursing faculty) Medicolegal Issues and Forensic Nursing Practice (half-day course) United States Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Forensic Anthropology (week-long course, team-taught) University of Bradford (United Kingdom) Forensic Anthropology (week-long course, team-taught) Liberal Studies Master’s Program, University of Maine Biological Perspectives on Human Behavior The Ohio State University Introduction to Physical Anthropology GRADUATE COMMITTEES 2016 Mary E. Jude Ph.D., Interdisciplinary, University of Maine Thinking beyond an evidence-based model to enhance Wabanaki health: Story, resilience and change 2011 AmberSky Heller M.S., Climate Change Institute, University of Maine Histological species differentiation in calcined bone 2009 Ursula Pritham Ph.D., Interdisciplinary in Nursing and Education, University of Maine Pharmacologic treatment of opioid addiction in pregnancy: Methadone versus buprenorphine and subsequent neonatal abstinence syndrome 2007 Anu King Dudley Ph.D., History, University of Maine What was in the doctor’s bag?: A material culture study of the performance of medicine in antebellum New England 2004 Dianne Swandal M.S.N, School of Nursing, University of Maine Embracing a culture of patient safety: A model for safe care 2004 Michael L. Rizzo M.S.N., School of Nursing, University of Maine The prescribing knowledge, attitudes, and practices among nurse practitioners in Maine toward benzodiazepines

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1983 Beatrice C. Craig PhD, History, University of Maine Family, kinship and community formation on the Canadian American border: Madawaska 1785-1842 RESEARCH GRANTS & CONTRACTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE Current 2016-2019 (PI/PD) Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS). Maine Office of

Chief Medical Examiner, Office of Attorney General, funding from the Centers for Disease Control. Cooperative Agreement between University of Maine and Maine Office of Attorney General.

2017-2019 (PI/PD Drug Death Monitoring 2017-2019. Maine Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Office of Attorney General, Cooperative Agreement between University of Maine and Maine Office of Attorney General.

2014-2019 (PI/PD) Maine-Vermont Violent Death Reporting System (MVVDRS). Maine Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Office of Attorney General, funding from the Centers for Disease Control. Cooperative Agreement between University of Maine and Maine Office of Attorney General.

Completed 2016-2017 (PI/PD) Drug Death Monitoring 2009-2017. Maine Office of Chief Medical Examiner,

Office of Attorney General, Cooperative Agreement between University of Maine and Maine Office of Attorney General.

2016-2017 (PI/PD) HotSpot Analysis of New Hampshire Fentanyl Deaths. Funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse through the National Drug Early Warning System, University of Maryland.

2014- 2016 (PI/PD) Program Evaluation of Physician License Portability II, Year 3. Federation of State Medical Boards, funding from US Department of Health & Human Services, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth.

2012-2015 (PI/PD Opioid Deaths in West Virginia and Northern New England. Funding from Centers for Disease Control through West Virginia Injury Center. Epidemiology and toxicology of opioid co-intoxication deaths comparing four rural states.

2011- 2013 (PI/PD) Program Evaluation of Physician License Portability II, Year 3. Federation of State Medical Boards, funding from US Department of Health & Human Services, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth.

2009- 2013 (PI/PD) Drug Death Monitoring & Prescriber Notification. Maine Department of Attorney General. Epidemiological analysis of drug-induced and drug-related deaths.

2009-2015 (PI/PD) Drug Death Monitoring 2009-2015. Maine Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Office of Attorney General, Cooperative Agreement.

2008-2009 (PI/PD) Drug-Related Overdose, Death, and Poisoning Associated with Drug Diversion, Misuse and Abuse in the State of Maine, 2002-2008. U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of U.S. Attorney in Maine. Analysis of geographic patterns linking drug-related deaths and drug interdiction.

2008-2009 (PI/PD) Analysis and Evaluation of Participation by Prescribers and Dispensers in the Maine State Prescription Monitoring Program. U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of U.S. Attorney in Maine. Survey of all dispensing licensee types to analyze barriers to utilization of on-line access to prescription monitoring program information about patients. Assessment of geographic and demographic patterns associated with prescription volume and above-threshold use of controlled substances.

2008-2011 (PI/PD) Contract. Analysis of Toxicological Findings in Motor Vehicle Fatalities and Suicides. Maine Office of Substance Abuse. Analysis of toxicological tests being done for an 18-month cohort of motor vehicle fatality drivers as well as all suicide types using medical examiner data. Demographic and toxicological patterns of drug and alcohol use/abuse.

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2008-2013 (PI/PD) Cooperative Agreement. Developing and Validating Regional Taphonomic Standards. National Institute of Justice, Department of Justice. Forensic anthropology research on death investigation methodology.

2008- 2010 (PI/PD) Program Evaluation of Physician License Portability II, Year 3. Federation of State Medical Boards, funding from US Department of Health & Human Services, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth.

2006-2007 (PI/PD) Contract to provide substance abuse GIS and ethnographic research. SAMHSA Grant to Office of Substance Abuse. Contract with Univ. Maine (subcontract from Univ. Maine CCIDS to Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center), Assessment and GIS mapping of county organizations doing substance abuse prevention.

2005-2007 (PI/PD) Rural Substance Abuse Partnership, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Dept. of Justice. Grant to Univ. Maine. Improved the research base to understand the geography of rural substance abuse applying GIS to federal UCR and TEDS data from 17 states. Also provided support for community-academic partnership in Maine. Emphasis on drug deaths, arrests and substance abuse treatment.

2005-2006 (PI/PD) Substance Abuse Needs Assessment for a Therapeutic Community in Maine. Maine Health Access Foundation Grant to the Maine Lighthouse Corporation. Contract with University of Maine (Co-PI Ann Acheson) Research to assess statewide need for a therapeutic community and make recommendations.

2004-2007 (PI/PD) Rural Substance Abuse Partnership, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Dept. of Justice. Grant to Univ. Maine. Improved the research base to understand the geography of rural substance abuse applying GIS to federal UCR and TEDS data from 17 states. Also provided support for community-academic partnership in Maine. Emphasis on drug deaths, arrests and substance abuse treatment.

2004-2005 (PI/PD) Technical Assistance to the Office of Substance Abuse. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Contract with Univ. Maine to develop prototype research process for monitoring multiple indicators of substance abuse statewide, which became the basis for the Maine Community Epidemiology Surveillance Network data collection.

2003-2007 (P.I./Project Coordinator) National Violent Death Reporting System. Centers for Disease Control, Division of Injury Prevention. Grant to National Association of Medical Examiners. Contract with Univ. Maine.

2003-2005 (Evaluator) Program Evaluation of Rapid Response. Grants from Maine Justice Assistance Council and from OJJDP, U.S. Dept. of Justice. Grant to Catholic Charities of Maine. Contract with Univ. Maine

2003-2013 (PI/PD) Contract. NVDRS Liaison representing the National Association of Medical Examiners.

2002-2003 (PI/PD) Drug-Related Mortality Patterns in Maine. Maine Justice Assistance Council, funding from Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice, Grant to Dept. of Attorney General. Contract with University of Maine. Epidemiological analysis of drug-induced and drug-related deaths, 1997-2002, using medical examiner data.

2000-2002. (P.I.) U.S. Public Health Service, Dept. Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions, Interdisciplinary Training for Health Care for Rural Areas (with Joann Kovacich, Co-Principal Investigator). Grant to the University of Maine.

1997-1998 (P.I.) U.S. Public Health Service, Dept. Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions, Maine Consortium of Partnerships: Academic-Community Partnership Implementation Proposal, (with Joann Kovacich, Co-Principal Investigator). Grant to the University of Maine.

1997 (Technical Consultant) Penobscot Valley Health Association Foundation, Mental Illness Prevention in Infancy (for Penquis CAP and Partners for Underutilized Systems of Health, in cooperation with the Maine Consortium of Partnerships). Grant to Penquis CAP of Bangor, Maine.