Dr. Bill Smock is the full-time Police Surgeon and directs the Clinical Forensic Medicine Program for the Louisville Metro Police Department in Louisville, Kentucky. Bill graduated from the University of Louisville, School of Medicine in 1990 and completed a residency in emergency medicine at the University of Louisville in 1993. In 1994, he became the first physician in the United States to complete a post-graduate fellowship in Clinical Forensic Medicine. Dr. Smock served an Assistant Medical Examiner with the Kentucky Medical Examiner’s Office from 1991 to 1997. Dr. Smock joined the Louisville Police Department in 1993 as the SWAT team’s first tactical physician, a position he has held for the last 26 years. Dr. Smock is currently a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine training medical students and resident physicians in tactical medicine and clinical forensic medicine. Dr. Smock was recently named the Medical Director of the San Diego-based Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention.

Dr. Smock has edited three textbooks on clinical forensic medicine and published more than 40 chapters and articles on forensic and emergency medicine. He is an internationally recognized forensic expert and trains nurses, physicians, law enforcement officers, attorneys and judges in multiple fields including: reconstruction of officer-involved shootings, the investigation and prosecution of fatal and non-fatal strangulation, gunshot wounds, staged crime scenes, injury mechanisms and motor vehicle trauma. Dr. Smock is also the Police Surgeon for the Floyd County (Indiana) Sheriff’s Office, the Jeffersontown (Kentucky) Police Department and the St. Matthews (Kentucky) Police Department. He has investigated and reconstructed hundreds of felony strangulation cases and officer-involved critical incidents on behalf of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. Dr. Smock’s investigations and testimony have provided state and federal Courts with valuable information on the determination of: strangulation and the cause of death, staged homicide versus suicide, entrance versus exit wounds, a bullet’s path through the body, bullet trajectory, range-of-fire and if the statements provided by suspects, witness or officers are consistent with the physical evidence.