Michael D. Freeman

Michael D. Freeman

Forensic Epidemiologist

Phone: (503) 586-0127

Forensic Trauma Consultants
1234 SW 18th Ave, Ste 102
Portland, Oregon 97205

Education

  • University of Oregon, B.S., 1983
  • Western States Chiropractic College, D.C., 1987
  • Oregon State University, Public Health and Epidemiology, Ph.D., 1997

Academic Positions

  • Oregon Health Sciences University, Clinical Associate Professor (1997 to present)
  • Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Adjunct Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine and Epidemiology (2005 to present)
  • Western States Chiropractic College, Adjunct Faculty (2002 to present)

Dr. Michael Freeman is a Forensic and Medical Epidemiologist specializing in the application of probability and epidemiologic data to forensic venues. He serves as Clinical Professor of Epidemiology at Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Freeman is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine and Epidemiology at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Dr. Freeman has more than 100 published scientific papers, books, and book chapters on forensic applications of epidemiology, crash-related injuries and death, general and specific causation, and a variety of other areas of interest. He has a number of publications on the identification of logical fallacy and junk science in expert testimony for the legal profession.

He has served in US, Canadian, European and Australian courts as an expert in a variety of fields including injury and death litigation, product liability, toxic tort litigation, tobacco litigation, medical negligence, as well as both prosecution and defense expert in a number of homicide cases.