Panayiotis Yamarelos also called as Panos Yamarelos/Giamarelos, is a Greek

Greek language

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 retired university

University

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 professor of medical jurisprudence

Medical jurisprudence

Medical jurisprudence, or forensic medicine in the broad sense , now embraces all matters which may bring the physician into contact with the law...

 and arguably the most famous coroner

Coroner

A coroner is a government official who* Investigates human deaths* Determines cause of death* Issues death certificates* Maintains death records* Responds to deaths in mass disasters* Identifies unknown dead* Other functions depending on local laws...

 in Greece, based in Athens

Athens

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. He was for many years the Head of the Medical Examiners of Greece

Greece

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. He has received various awards for his work in the field of medical jurisprudence and published thousands of projects and works in Greece and abroad.

He has been involved in hundreds of death cases in Greece as a medical examiner

Medical examiner

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, with most famous to be the case of soldier

Soldier

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 Romiopoulos' suspicious death in 1997 and the case of Monk Vissarion Korkoliacos

Vissarion Korkoliacos

Vissarion Korkoliacos , also spelled as Visarion or Vissarion Korkoliakos, , was a Greek Orthodox monk of the Agathonos Monastery, close to Lamia, Central Greece...

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Panayiotis Yamarelos died in May 2006.