Jan C. Garavaglia, M.D.
Host of DR. G: MEDICAL EXAMINER

Jan C. Garavaglia, M.D. is the Chief Medical Examiner for the District Nine (Orange-Osceola) Medical Examiner’s Office in Florida. In addition, Dr. Garavaglia is the host and subject of Discovery Health’s hit series DR. G: MEDICAL EXAMINER, which first premiered in 2004, and takes viewers on an investigative journey as Dr. Garavaglia examines the cases coming through her morgue.

Prior to joining the office in Florida, Dr. Garavaglia was a Medical Examiner at the Bexar County Forensic Science Center in San Antonio, Texas, for ten years. She also served at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio as the Clinical Assistant Professor for the Department of Pathology and as a member of the Graduate Faculty Council for the Graduate School of Biomedical Science.

A graduate of the St. Louis University School of Medicine, Dr. Garavaglia completed her Fellowship in Forensic Pathology at the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office in Miami, Fla., and obtained certification by the American Board of Pathology in Combined Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, and by the American Board of Pathology in Forensic Pathology.

Dr. Garavaglia is a member of the National Association of Medical Examiners and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and is the recipient of the Hidalgo award, presented by the Bexar County Commissioners Court in Texas for “outstanding work assisting agencies and providing forensic science services during a multi-jurisdictional capital murder investigation.” She also received a Sheriff’s Citation from the Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary “in recognition of outstanding service to the Sheriff’s Office and the citizens of Orange County.”

Dr. Garavaglia was recently invited by the U.S. Department of Justice to speak at the National Press Club regarding the issue of identifying unidentified human remains. Prior to that, she was invited to be part of a National Institute of Justice sponsored focus group on helping develop solutions for the problem of unidentified human remains. Additionally, Dr. Garavaglia has given numerous presentations and lectures at various institutions, and has been published in media such as the Journal of Forensic Sciences and The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology.

Dr. Garavaglia lives in Orlando, Fla., with her husband and two sons, ages 13 and 18.

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