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Laurel J. Farrell
Laurel Farrell retired in 2007 after 30 years of service with the State of Colorado. Laurel worked for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for over twenty-one years serving in a variety of capacities in the toxicology and breath alcohol programs. For the last half of her employment she served as the staff authority in the toxicology laboratory. Laurel then transferred to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and was an Agent-in-Charge for the Denver Laboratory when she retired. In this capacity she had supervisory responsibility for a number of the forensic disciplines performed in the laboratory.
As an active member of the Society of Forensic Toxicologists, Laurel served for seven years as an officer/director serving as President in 2002. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and in 2008 received the Toxicology Section Ray Abernathy Award for Outstanding Forensic Toxicology Practitioner. Laurel served as Chair of the Joint SOFT/AAFS Drugs and Driving Committee from 2000-2002 and as a member on this committee from 1995 to the present. Active with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Drug Evaluation and Classification Program (DECP) since 1988, Laurel served as the toxicology representative on the DEC and SFST Technical Advisory Panel from 2005 - 2007. Laurel is currently on the Executive Board for the National Safety Council's Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs and also serves on the Drugs: Technology, Pharmacology and Toxicology Subcommittee for this organization. Laurel was recognized by the National Safety Council with the presentation of the 2009 Robert F. Borkenstein Award for her career long-service to the alcohol, drugs, and transportation safety field.
Currently Laurel is a Staff Inspector with the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB), an independent contractor for the National Laboratory Certification Program and serves as a consultant with RTI International.
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