The Office of the Medical Examiner is a regional office that serves the residents of Gloucester, Camden and Salem Counties. The office is legally responsible for determining cause and manner of death for those individuals that fall within our jurisdiction, both geographically and within statuary requirements in the following instances:

1.     All cases of apparent homicidal deaths

2.     All deaths occurring under suspicious, traumatic or unusual circumstances 

3.     All deaths from causes which might constitute a threat to public health

4.     All deaths of inmates of jail

5.     All infants and children suspected of having been abused or neglected and children suspected of having died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Complete and thorough Medico-legal death investigation utilizing the combined and coordinated resources of scene investigation, autopsy and forensic laboratories are conducted.

Robert  M. Damminger
Freeholder Director

Jim Jefferson
Freeholder Liaison

Tamarisk Jones
Director
Department of Health & Human Services

Michelle Baylor
Deputy  Director
Department of Health & Human Services

Gerald Feigin, MD
Medical Examiner

The Medical Examiner's office is located at:

Gloucester County Offices @ East Holly
204 East Holly Ave.
Sewell, NJ 08080
(856) 218-4190
meoffice@co.gloucester.nj.us