Deputy State Medical Examiner – Eugene

Agency: Oregon State Police

Location: Eugene, Oregon

Initial Posting Date: 09/11/2026 |
Final date to receive applications: 03/10/2027

Salary Range: $25,477 - $28,089

Monthly Additional Annual Salary: $305,724 - $337,068 (7.5% differential added to base pay with board certification) (4% Cost of Living adjustment – January 1, 2027)

Position Type: Employee – Full-Time, Permanent

The State Medical Examiner’s Office is the sole provider of forensic pathology services throughout Oregon. Our team closely collaborates with the county medical examiners and medical legal death investigators employed by each county’s death investigation program, providing technical supervision of all medicolegal death investigations. Deputy State Medical Examiners are stationed in the Portland metro area (Clackamas), Eugene, and Central Point, Oregon.

Forensic pathologists at the State Medical Examiner’s Clackamas location currently perform all medical legal autopsies for Northwestern, Eastern, and Central Oregon; however, recent years have seen significant expansion of our program. This growth includes development of a state-of-the-art State Medical Examiner facility in Eugene that is currently underway. The estimated date of completion for this facility is early 2029. This position will be the first one to provide services at the new facility when it is completed.

In the interim, the pathologist that fills this position will perform forensic autopsies at Peace Health Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend in Springfield, Oregon. Office space will be provided in a nearby OSP facility. Our forensic pathologists are supported by a wonderful staff of well-trained autopsy technicians and administrative specialists. Our team also includes a full-time forensic anthropologist who oversees Oregon’s Unidentified Human Remains program and provides a variety of consultant services on cases of skeletal remains.

Toxicology testing is performed on-site by an ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) accredited laboratory. Our office’s work includes a teaching program providing regular lectures on legal medicine and death investigation to many groups, including students from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and Western University School of Osteopathic Medicine, law students, pathology residents, medical legal death investigators, police officers, and healthcare professionals.

Forensic pathology fellows are encouraged to apply for this position. Interested fellows will start employment in our main facility in Clackamas. The fellow will first spend time working collaboratively with our program's senior forensic pathologists as they learn how Oregon's system functions and gain the necessary skills to practice independently. Upon demonstration of those skills, the fellow will transition to their permanent assignment.

We anticipate that this will encompass the first year of employment but may be shorter depending on the candidate's progress and level of comfort. We offer paid licensure renewals, CME, professional memberships, and annual conference attendance, as well as generous relocation expense reimbursement.

• Perform autopsies and provide expert medical consultation in appropriate cases.
• Share autopsy responsibilities with the State Medical Examiner and other Deputy State Medical Examiners, rotating weekend, night, holiday, and vacation coverage.
• Write autopsy reports, and other reports as appropriate, relating to death investigations.
• Provide training, as requested, to law enforcement agencies, county medical examiners, district attorneys, and medicolegal death investigators.
• You must be able to provide credible sworn testimony in a criminal or civil proceeding arising from the performance…