Prof. Byard obtained his BMedSci in 1975 and his MB,BS in 1978 from the University of Tasmania. He undertook his internship and residency at the Royal Hobart Hospital from 1979 to 1980, worked as a Flying Doctor in N.E. Arnhem Land, Australia in 1981, and obtained a second medical qualification in Canada (LMCC) in 1982 while working at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He qualified in general practice in Canada in 1982 (CCFP). From 1984 to 1988, Prof. Byard was a Resident in Pathology at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and was a Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto before being appointed as a Senior Consultant Histopathologist at the Adelaide Children's Hospital/Women's and Children's Hospital (Adelaide). While in this position, he was awarded his MD on 'sudden natural death in infancy and early childhood.' He subsequently joined Forensic Science SA (Adelaide) in 1995 as a Visiting Consultant Pathologist where he studied for his MMedSci(Paediatr) on 'accidental childhood death in South Australia from 1963-1996.' He is a fellow of the College of American Pathologists, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Royal College of Pathologists (UK) and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. In 2005 he became a foundation fellow of the royal College of Physicians Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. He currently holds the additional positions of Chief Forensic Pathologist at Forensic Science SA and Consultant Paediatric Forensic Pathologist with the Child Protection Unit at the Women's and Children's Hospital. Prof. Byard�s research interests are in the areas of paediatric forensic pathology, SIDS, and sudden infant and childhood death. He has written a text on Sudden Death in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed, 2004) and coedited Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - Problems Progress and Possibilities (Arnold, 2001) and the Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine Vols 1-4 (Elsevier 2005). He is the Australasian editor for the journal Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology. He began his involvement in teaching at the University of Hobart in 1979 and has been involved in teaching in the Department of Pathology at the University of Adelaide since 1991. He became a member of the Pathology Discipline in 2006.

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