Mark Malcolm is the president and founder of Disaster Management International (DMI).

Professional Background

Mr. Malcolm was appointed Coroner of Pulaski County in 1995 and was the only full-time county coroner in Arkansas until he left to found DMI. He served as the Chief Deputy Coroner for 8 years prior to being appointed Coroner.

Mr. Malcolm served as Director of Field Operations for Kenyon International Emergency Services during the search and recovery of those who died in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; and he served as Director of Morgue Operations in Phuket, Thailand, following the December 2004 tsunami.

During his twenty years in law enforcement, Mr. Malcolm has been involved in over 40,000 death investigations.

Education & Certifications

Mr. Malcolm holds Fellow status with the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigation at the St. Louis University School of Medicine and is one of only one hundred ten board-certified death investigators in the United States. He serves as an instructor for the University of Arkansas Criminal Justice Institute and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Mr. Malcolm is certified as an instructor in death investigation, crime scene management, and evidence preservation by the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training and serves as the primary death investigation instructor for the Little Rock Police Department Training Academy. He is qualified as an expert in death investigation in United States District Court and the Arkansas Circuit Courts.

Appointments & Legislation

In June 2007, Mr. Malcolm was appointed to the FEMA National Advisory Council. The Council was created by the Congress of the United States to provide advice and guidance to FEMA Administration on all aspects of preparedness and emergency management. Also in 2007, Mr. Malcolm was named Director of Mass Fatality Planning and Response for the Arkansas Department of Health.

Mr. Malcolm serves on the National Institute of Justice Mass Fatality Review Panel, which published Mass Fatality Incident: A Guide to Human Forensic Identification in June 2005. He previously served as a member of the National Institute of Justice technical working group formed to develop national guidelines for death investigation. He currently sits on the National Institute of Justice Mass Fatality Incident Management Training Curriculum Committee. This committee is charged with the responsibility for developing a mass fatality training module for use in all 50 states.

In March 2002, Mr. Malcolm appeared before the United States Senate Committee on Aging and provided testimony regarding the Arkansas law he authored that mandates reporting all nursing home deaths to the county coroner. He also advised committee members of the procedures used by his office to conduct those investigations.