New director hopes to have procedures in place to re-open program next month.
Dr. Peter Lawrence was chosen to rebuild the program after university officials fired Christopher Brown on Sept. 23 for allegedly selling body parts for personal profit. Brown is also believed to have mishandled a number of the donated cadavers, failing to return some of them to the families after they were cremated. Despite these publicized problems, Lawrence said he is confident the program will still be able to resume operation in the near future. This makes it difficult to track them down when the ashes are ready to be returned, he said. Reproduction in any way is prohibited unless express written consent is first obtained.