The associates at Forensic DNA Consultants have more
than 25 years of forensic DNA experience, and have been
recognized for their efforts. Our principle consultant is Dr.
Mitchell Holland (for a copy of Dr. Holland's CV click here).
Dr. Holland holds a bachelor of science degree in Chemistry
from Hobart College in New York. He earned his Ph.D. in
Biochemistry at the University of Maryland and was a
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine studying human genetics.
Dr. Holland is a Fellow in the American Academy of Forensic
Sciences (AAFS), and has been a member of the American
Society of Human Genetics. He has served as an associate
professorial lecturer in the forensic science department at
the George Washington University, and has been an adjunct
faculty member at other colleges and universities. Dr.
Holland is on the editorial board of the Journal of Forensic
Sciences, and has been a member of the advisory board of
the International Journal of Legal Medicine.
Dr. Holland is currently an Associate Professor of
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Pennsylvania State
University in State College, PA, and is the Associate Director
of the Forensic Science Program (PSU Forensics).
Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State, Dr. Holland held the
position of Senior Vice President, Operations and
Laboratory Director of the Bode Technology Group (Bode), a
ChoicePoint® company where he oversaw the laboratory
activities at Bode, as well as the Information Technology, the
applied research, and the (wet lab) product development
groups. In addition to overseeing a laboratory that produced
more than 450,000 convicted offender profiles and
completed the analysis of more than 15,000 forensic cases,
Dr. Holland was responsible for the laboratory that assisted
the NY City medical examiner's office with the identification of
victims from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks.
Prior to working at Bode, Dr. Holland held the position of
Scientific Laboratory Director at the Armed Forces DNA
Identification Laboratory (AFDIL). At AFDIL, Dr. Holland was
responsible for the laboratory that helped to identified the
remains of 1st Lt Michael Blassie (the Vietnam Unknown
Soldier) and Nicholas Romanov (the last Russian Tsar).
While working at AFDIL and Bode, Dr. Holland was involved
in more than 50 laboratory audits to the standards of the FBI,
the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/
Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB), the National
Forensic Science and Technology Center (NFSTC), the New
York State Department of Health, and the College of
American Pathologists (CAP).
Dr. Holland has given more than 100 lectures and/or
presentations on forensic DNA (many at professional
conferences), and has published 36 peer reviewed journal
articles, book chapters, and literary pieces.
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