Principal
Forensic Healthcare Consulting, LLC
A forensic nurse examiner since 1995, Dr. Markowitz regularly serves as faculty, and as an
expert consultant for the Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps for the US Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. She has consulted for a variety of agencies and
institutions, including Peace Corps, Michigan State University, the US Army Medical Command
and the National Institute of Justice. She recently served as lead writer and researcher for the
new National Protocol for Intimate Partner Violence Medical Forensic Exams, published by the
U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Past national activities
include working with OVW to develop a national protocol and training standards for Sexual
Assault Medical-Forensic Examinations (for which she is currently serving as editor of the 3rd
edition); with the U.S. Department of Defense to revise the military’s Sexual Assault Evidence
Collection kit and corresponding documentation forms; with the US Army Surgeon General to
write the curriculum for training Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examiners in Military
Treatment Facilities; and as an Advisory Board member for the National Sexual Violence
Resource Center. In 2012 Dr. Markowitz served as President of the International Association of
Forensic Nurses. She was a sitting member of the Defense Advisory Committee on
Investigation, Prosecution, and Defense of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces until it was
suspended in January 2021 and was reappointed when it was reconstituted in January 2022. In
2021 Dr. Markowitz was appointed to be a member of the federal Organization of Scientific
Area Committees for Forensic Sciences’ subcommittee on forensic nursing, charged with
identifying and developing forensic science standards for the profession.
