Meet Canada’s first aboriginal forensic pathologist – CBC
Sept 25, 2016
Dr. Kona Williams hopes to bridge the gap between her institution and aboriginal communities.
Dr. Kona Williams pulls on her crisp white lab coat and points to the number at the top of her locker: 007. She puts on plastic shoe covers and walks into the open-concept autopsy bay, sunlight streaming in through frosted windows. She is wearing large circular earrings — “Eight dollars at Shoppers Drug Mart,” she laughs. After 14 years of post-secondary education, she can’t lose the student quest for deals. She still buys bruised bananas.
It’s late afternoon at the Forensic Services and Coroner’s Complex near Keele St. and Hwy. 401, and the stainless steel tables are prepped for the next day’s work.Whiteboards have “lung,” “spleen” and “brain” in a place of permanence on the left, and blank spaces where the weights of these organs will be recorded as forensic pathologists look for clues in the cause of death.
