Tennessee has named the current director of forensic pathology at East Tennessee State University's Quillen College of Medicine as the state's new chief medical examiner. Doctor Karen Cline Parhamovich will oversee the autopsy process among other duties. Her responsibilities will expand to involve the education of local county medical examiners and medical investigators. She has been serving as the interim chief medical examiner and deputy chief medical examiner since December of 2010. The previous state medical examiner was arrested in March of that year in Mississippi. Investigators found marijuana with his name on it at a distribution center and more was found in his hotel room. (bg)