A forensic scientist in the Center for Forensic Sciences at RTI International, Katherine Bollinger is a board-certified toxicologist with diplomate status from the American Board of Forensic Toxicology who has participated in and led several research projects funded by the National Institute of Justice. Ms. Bollinger specializes in evaluating new technologies, such as laser diode thermal desorption for use with controlled substances, and she has also identified novel designer-drug metabolites using liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight instrumentation.  

Expertise

  • Forensic toxicology

Publications

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Understanding research methods, limitations, and applications of drug data collected by the National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS-Drug)
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Benzodiazepines reported in NFLIS-Drug, 2015 to 2018
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A census of medicolegal death investigation in the United States
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Development of a quantitative lc-ms-ms assay for codeine, morphine, 6-acetylmorphine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone and oxymorphone in neat oral fluid

Related Capabilities

Practice Area

Toxics
Service

Forensic Sciences

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