Forensic Pathologist
Dr. Reema Khan is a Forensic Pathologist in Maywood, IL
with special training and skill in traditional medicine, forensic sciences, DNA technology, forensic serology, toxicology, trace evidence, and wound ballistics.
As a Forensic Pathologist, Reema Khan, MD performs
research on the circumstances leading up to a death, and examines cadavers to determine the deceased's identity, as well as the time, causes, and manner of death. Forensic Pathology is
a pathology subspecialty that examines cadavers that have died unexpectedly or violently. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Forensic Pathologists include death by both natural causes (disease) and unnatural causes (injury, suicide, or homicide).
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Forensic Pathologists
include reviewing law-enforcement information regarding a death, obtaining the deceased medical histories, collecting evidence through imaging tests and tissue samples during an autopsy, determining the manner and cause of death, preparing official autopsy reports, providing these reports to public and health and safety agencies, and testifying about these findings in court.
A forensic pathologist is expert in investigating and evaluating cases of sudden, unexpected, suspicious and violent death as well as other specific classes of death defined by law. The forensic pathologist serves the public as coroner or medical examiner, or by performing medicolegal autopsies for such officials.
Forensic Pathologists in Maywood, IL
Anatomic & Clinical Pathologist
Dr. Reema Khan is an Anatomic & Clinical Pathologist in Maywood, IL
with special training and skill in determining the origin, type, and severity of a disease.
As an Anatomic & Clinical Pathologist, Reema Khan, MD performs
laboratory tests to detect and treat the causes of illnesses. Anatomic Clinical Pathology is
the study of disease in bodily fluid, tissues, and organs. Significant diseases and conditions treated by
Anatomic & Clinical Pathologists include diabetes and cancer.
Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Anatomic & Clinical Pathologists
include diagnostic tests on blood, urine, sputum, feces, spinal fluid, pleural fluid, and belly fluid, as well as biopsy and autopsy.
A pathologist deals with the causes and nature of disease and contributes to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment through knowledge gained by the laboratory application of the biologic, chemical and physical sciences. A pathologist uses information gathered from the microscopic examination of tissue specimens, cells and body fluids, and from clinical laboratory tests on body fluids and secretions for the diagnosis, exclusion and monitoring of disease.
Anatomic Clinical Pathologists in Maywood, IL
General Acute Care Hospital
An acute general hospital is an institution whose primary function is to provide inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and non-surgical, to a wide population group. The hospital treats patients in an acute phase of illness or injury, characterized by a single episode or a fairly short duration, from which the patient returns to his or her normal or previous level of activity.
General Acute Care Hospitals in Maywood, IL
