John D. Butts, MD

Chief Medical Examiner
 
Office: 919-966-2253
E-mail: john.butts@pathology.unc.edu
 
 
Research Interests
 
My research interests include analysis of violent deaths to identify possible interventions and injury control.
 
Selected Publications
 
Herman-Giddens, M.E., Smith, J.B., Mittal, M., Carlson, M., and Butts, J.D. Newborns Killed or Left to Die by a Parent: A Population-Based Study, Journal of the American Medical Assocation, 289: 1425-1429. 2003.
 
Loomis, D., Marshall, S.W., Wolf, S.H., Runyan, C.W., and Butts, J. B. Effectiveness of Safety Measures Recommended for Workplace Homicide, Journal of the American Medical Association, 287: 1011-1017, 2002.
 
Loomis, D.. Wolf, S.H., Runyan, C.W., Marshall, S. W., and Butts, J.B., Homicide on the Job: Workplace and Community Determinants, American Journal of Epidemiology, 154: 410-417, 2001.
 
Cherry, D., Runyan, C.W., and Butts, J.D., A Populaton-Based Study of Unintentional Firearm Fatalities, Injury Prevention, 7 (1): 62-65, 2001.
 
Herman-Giddens, M.E., Brown, G., Verbiest, S., Carlson, P.J., Hooten, E.G., Howell, E., and Butts, J. D. Underascertainment of Child Abuse Mortality in the United States, Journal of the American Medical Association, 282:463-467, 1999.
 
Bell RA, Howard D, Norman M, Butts J, Lengerich EJ. Medical examiner cases associated with previously undiagnosed diabetes mellitus, North Carolina, 1994. Southern Med J 1998; 191(2):151-154.
 
Loomis DP, Richardson DB, Wolf SH, Runyan CW, Butts JD. Fatal occupational injuries in a southern state. Am J Epidemiology 1997; 145(12):1089-1099.
 
Flannagan LM, Butts J and Anderson WH. Fentanyl patches left on dead bodies—potential source of drug for abusers. J of Forensic Sciences 41(2):320-321, 1996.
 
Randall B, Butts J and Halsey JF. Elevated postmortem tryptase in the absence of anaphylaxis. J of Forensic Sciences 40(2):208-211, 1995.