Peter Loomis

Peter W. Loomis, DDS, Forensic Odontologist, received his undergraduate education at the University of New Mexico and completed his dental education the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Dentistry in 1972. He completed a general practice residency at the Indian Health Service Alaska Native Medical Center and received his training in Forensic Odontology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the University of New Mexico. He maintained a general dental practice in Albuquerque for 28 years, and has been a forensic odontology consultant with the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator since 1976. Dr. Loomis is certified by the American Board of Odontology.

Dr. Loomis is a past President of the American Board of Forensic Odontology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and member of the American Society of Forensic Odontology. He the founder and director of the New Mexico MFI Dental Identification Team, and serves as a forensic odontologist for DMORT Region 6, the Child Abuse Response Team (CART) at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, the FBI/CJIS Dental Image Repository Panel and is past chairman of the Dental Identification Task Group of the Odontology Subcommittee of the Medicine Committee (SAC) within the NIST Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC).