Biography
Dr. Nolte received a BA in Biology (1978) from the University of Pennsylvania and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree (1982) from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following his MD degree, he completed an internship in internal medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital and spent a year in the Indian Health Service on the San Carlos Apache Reservation (Arizona) as a general practitioner. He resumed his training with residencies in anatomic pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Pennsylvania Hospital. He received his forensic pathology training at the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Dr. Nolte was an Associate Medical Examiner for the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner from 1988-1990.
Dr Nolte has been on faculty at the University of New Mexico from 1990. He served as the Chief Medical Investigator of the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator from 2014-2019 and the Assistant Dean/Assistant Vice President for Research in the Health Sciences Center Office of Research from 2006-2011. He was the founding Director of the UNM Radiology-Pathology Center for Forensic Imaging where he was engaged in radiologic imaging research projects sponsored by the National Institute of Justice.
Personal Statement
Dr Nolte has spent his career working at the intersection of forensic pathology and public health. His areas of academic specialization are below. He is active in the National Association of Medical Examiners where he was the Executive Vice President from 2009-2015.
Areas of Specialty
Postmortem radiologic imaging
Medical examiner surveillance for infectious disease mortality
Autopsy biosafety
Pathology and epidemiology of drug abuse
Classification of self-injury mortality and relationship between alcohol intoxication and suicide
Prevention of out-of-hospital trauma mortality
Certifications
American Board of Pathology - Anatomic Pathology
American Board of Pathology - Forensic Pathology
Achievements & Awards
Rita Feinberg Fellowship- Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Jigme Dorji Wangchuk National Referral Hospital, Thimphu, Bhutan, 2020
Outstanding Service Award- In Recognition of Outstanding Service to the National Association of Medical Examiners and of Significant Contributions to the Advancement of the Medicolegal Investigation of Deaths in the United States, 2018
United States Attorney Law Enforcement Award Recognizing Outstanding Contributions to the New Mexico Heroin & Opioid Prevention & Education Initiative, 2017
Gift of Sight Award from Eye Bank Association of America, 2017
Compass Award - For Steadfast and Enduring Counsel to the National Association of Medical Examiners, 2015
President’s Award for Special and Ongoing Service to the National Association of Medical Examiners, 2013
Nominated for Charles C. Shepard Science Award, from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “A history of being prescribed controlled substances and risk of drug overdose death” in Pain Medicine, 2012
Distinguished Scholar and Keynote Speaker, Asia- Pacific International Academy of Pathology Congress and Asia Pacific International Conference of Forensic Pathology and Forensic Science, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
Standards of Performance Certificate of Recognition, Standards in Action- Dignity and Respect, University of New Mexico Hospitals, 2008
Nominated for Celebration of Science Best Paper from National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “Unauthorized border crossings and migrant deaths, Arizona, New Mexico and El Paso (Texas) 2002-2003” in Am J Pub Health, 2007
Nominated for Charles C. Shepard Science Award, from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “Unauthorized border crossings and migrant deaths, Arizona, New Mexico and El Paso (Texas) 2002-2003” in Am J Pub Health, 2007
Albuquerque Ambassador Award - Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau, 1998
Nominated for Charles C. Shepard Science Award, from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for “Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: Pathogenesis of an Emerging Infectious Disease” in Am J Pathol, 1996
James H. Nakano Citation, for an outstanding scientific paper published in 1995, from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for “Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: Pathogenesis of an Emerging Infectious Disease” in Am J Pathol, 1996
Nolte, KB and Brinkhous WK, ID of Skeletonized Remains by Antemortem X-ray, American Society for Clinical Pathology/Nikon Medical Photography Competition - Honorable Mention, Gross Category, 1991
Isolated Hardship Service Ribbon, U.S. Public Health Service, 1984
Urban Corps Summer Fellowship in Forensic Pathology, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, New York City, 1979
Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow Award, Boonton High School, Boonton, NJ, 1974
Languages
- English
Research and Scholarship
Selected Recent Publications
•Nolte KB, Healy C, Rees, CM, Sklar D. Motorcycle policy and the public interest: A recommendation for a new type of partial motorcycle helmet law. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 2017, 45(1Suppl):50-54. doi: 10.1177/1073110517703324. PMID: 28661293.
•Aalders MC, Adolphi NL, Daly B, Davis GG, de Boer HH, Decker SJ, Dempers JJ, Ford J, Gerrard CY, Hatch GM, Hofman PAM, Iino M, Jacobsen C, Klein WM, Kubat B, Leth PM, Mazuchowski EL, Nolte KB, O’Donnell C, Thali MJ, van Rijn RR, Wozniak K. Research in Forensic Radiology and Imaging: identifying the most important issues. Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging, March 2017, 8:1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jofri.2017.01.004.
•Kaplan MS, Caetano R, Giesbrecht N, Huguet N, Kerr WC, McFarland BH, Nolte KB. The National Violent Death Reporting System: Use of the restricted access database and recommendations for the system’s improvement. Am J Preventive Med, 2017, 53(1):130-133. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2017.01.043. Epub 2017 Mar 24. PMID: 28347589.
•Morrow JB, Ropero-Miller JD, Catlin ML, Winokur AD, Cadwallader AB, Staymates JL, Williams SR, McGrath JG, Logan BK, McCormick MM, Nolte KB, Gilson TP, Menendez MJ, Goldberger BA. The opioid epidemic: moving toward an integrated holistic analytical response. J Anal Toxicol. 2018 Aug 27; 1-9. doi: 10.1093/jat/bky049. PMID: 30165647.
•Medrano NW, Villarreal CL, Price MA, MacKenzie E, Nolte KB, Phillips MJ, Stewart RM, Eastridge BJ. Multi-Institutional Multidisciplinary Injury Mortality Investigation in the Civilian Pre-Hospital Environment (MIMIC): a methodology for reliably measuring prehospital time and distance to definitive care. Trauma Surg Acute Care Open 2019; 4:e000309. doi:10.1136/tsaco-2019-000309.
•Chiu SK, Li JF, Nolte KB. Evaluating the potential for unintentional occupational exposure to fentanyl and fentanyl analogues among medicolegal death investigators and autopsy technicians. J Forensic Sci, 2020; 65(4):1324-1327, https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14288.
•Rockett IRH, Caine ED, Connery HS, Nolte KB. Overcoming the Limitations of ‘Accident’ as a Manner of Death for Drug Overdose Mortality: Case for a Death Certificate Checkbox, Inj Prev. 2020 Sep 11:injuryprev-2020-043830. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2020-043830. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32917742