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Jun 22, 2021 • Caitlin Burns
By Katherine Haines '21, '22 Amanda D’Orazio ’15, ’17M and Amanda Mohr ’12M and faculty members Dr. Karen Scott, associate professor and program director of Forensic Science, and Dr. Barry Logan, associate professor of Forensic Science, published “Recommendations for Toxicological Investigation...
May 17, 2021 • Caitlin Burns
Major: Master of Science in Forensic Science Favorite Arcadia memory: There are so many. I use to hold these game nights in the Fall 2019 [as an undergraduate biochemistry student]—had this awesome group of students that came into the honors program. They wanted to play Dungeons &...
Apr 28, 2021 • Caitlin Burns
By Aaron Uscinowicz '22 Nine students in Arcadia’s Masters of Forensic Sciences program presented at the 2021 American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting from Feb. 15 to 19. Presentation topics varied between criminalistics, toxicology, and general forensic science. Presenting...
Mar 30, 2021 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Karen Scott, director of the Forensic Science program, and Forensic Science alumnus Sam Krug ’20M had their advanced review, “A toxicological exploration of the opioid crisis,” published in the August issue of the WIREs Forensic Science journal. In the paper, the two explore the origins of...
May 7, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Karen Scott, director and associate professor of Forensic Science, published an article in the March 2020 issue of the Oxford University Press’ Journal of Analytical Toxicology titled, “An Insight into Gabapentin and Pregabalin in Scottish Prisoners.” The article was based on a study done...
Feb 7, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Karen Scott, associate professor and program director of forensic science, and Dr. Lorna Nisbet, forensic science doctorate student at Arcadia and lecturer of analytical chemistry and forensic science at Anglia Ruskin University, published groundbreaking drug identification research, “The...
Sep 20, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Karen Scott, director of Forensic Science, and doctorate student Lorna Nisbet published a paper in the Oxford Academic Journal of Analytical Toxicology that assesses the impact hair color has on the detection of certain high potency psychoactive drugs. “Application of a Urine and Hair...
Nov 10, 2016 • Jen Retter
The Oxford Journals’ Journal of Analytical Toxicology recently published “Impact of Expanding ELISA Screening in DUID Investigations to Include Carisoprodol/Meprobamate and Zolpidem,” by Forensic Science graduate Aileen Lu ’15. Mentored by Dr. Karen Scott, associate professor of Forensic Science,...
Nov 7, 2016 • Jen Retter
This September, Biology major Stephanie Olson '17 presented a poster on the growth and development of flesh-eating beetles at the 25th International Congress of Entomology in Orlando, Fla. Olson, who will use the poster as part of her Capstone presentation, completed the research alongside Dr....
Jun 30, 2015 • Christopher Sarachilli
Sixteen high school students came to Arcadia on June 23 to practice gathering forensic evidence at Arcadia’s Crime Scene House at 2063 Church Road, as part of the Teva Pharmaceuticals summer internship program at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and in conjunction with Arcadia's...
Prior to taking on the role as Director of Forensic Science at Arcadia University, Dr. Karen Scott held the position of senior lecturer and consultant forensic toxicologist at Forensic Medicine and Science, University of Glasgow. She has over 25 years experience in the fields of forensic and clinical toxicology. She is published in the areas of post-mortem toxicology and hair and alternative matrix testing and is a reviewer for three of the main Forensic Toxicology journals.
Dr. Scott has a Bachelor of Science (honours) degree in Forensic & Analytical Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK, 1994) and a PhD in Forensic Toxicology from the University of Glasgow (UK, 1998)). On completion of her degrees she carried out postdoctoral research in Tokyo, Japan investigating incorporation rates of drugs into hair. She is a Chartered Scientist, a Chartered Chemist and an Authorized Analyst for the purposes of Section 16 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act (UK).
Hair analysis for drugs; drug stability; human performance toxicology, post-mortem toxicology
Hometown
Cinnaminson, NJ
Home Country
Scotland
Languages
English
Forensic Toxicology, Pharmacology, Forensic Science, Forensic Investigations Minor,
University of Glasgow 1998
PhD, Major in Forensic Toxicology
Strathclyde University 1994
BSc (Hons), Major in Forensic and Analytical Chemistry
Co-Author • 2020
Article, Frontiers in Chemistry
Co-Authored with Heather L. Ciallella, Lexus R. Rutter, Lorna A. Nisbet and Karen S. Scott
Co-Author • 2020
Article, Wires Forensic Science
Co-Authored with Samuel A. Krug and Karen S Scott
Co-Author • 2020
Article, Journal of Analytical Toxicology, Oxford Publishing
Co-Authored with Shaza Deeb, Fiona M. Wylie, Hazel J. Torrance and Karen S. Scott
Co-author • 2017
Article, Journal of Analytical Toxicology, Oxford Publishing
Co-Authored with Keith-Dane H. Temporal, Karen S. Scott, Amanda L.A. Mohr, and Barry K. Logan
Co-author • 2019
Article, Journal of Analytical Toxicology, Oxford Publishing
Co-Authored with Lorna A. Nisbet, Fiona M. Wylie, Barry K. Logan, and Karen S. Scott
Co-author • 2014
Article, Forensic Science Reviews, Central Police University Press
Co-Authored with Gurney SMR, Scott KS, Kacinko SL, Presley BC, Logan BK
Co-author • 2016
Article, Forensic Science Reviews, Central Police University Press
Co-Authored with Presley BC, Gurney SMR, Scott KS, Kacinko SL, Logan BK
Co-author • 2017
Article, Journal of Analytical Toxicology, Oxford Publishing
Co-Authored with Barry K. Logan, Amanda L. D’Orazio, Amanda L.A. Mohr, Jennifer F. Limoges, Amy K. Miles, Colleen E. Scarneo, Sarah Kerrigan, Laura J. Liddicoat, Karen S. Scott, and Marilyn A. Huestis
Co-author • 2016
Article, Journal of Analytical Toxicology, Oxford Publishing
Co-Authored with Aileen Lu, Karen S. Scott, Aya Chan-Hosokawa, and Barry K. Logan
My main research interest is the analysis of hair for drugs. I have particular interests in the way in which drugs incorporate into different types of body hair and in cases involving drug facilitated crimes (e.g. sexual assault cases). Current collaborative research includes e-cigarette research using cocaine as a target drug for deposition onto fur.
In additional I am interested in the stability of drugs in different matrices including blood and urine and how this impacts on the interpretation of both human performance and postmortem toxicology casework. Examples of drugs my research group has worked on have included GHB, benzodiazepines, cathinones and fentanyl.