Baden (born July 27, 1934) is an American physician and board-certified forensic pathologist known for his work investigating high-profile deaths and as the host of HBO's Autopsy.
He is considered controversial, and has on a number of occasions been on the opposite side of many experts in his line of work.
Baden was the chief medical examiner of the City of New York from 1978 to 1979.
He was chairman of the House Select Committee on Assassinations' Forensic Pathology Panel that investigated the assassination of John F.
Kennedy.
He is the Forensic Science Contributor for FOX News Channel and was a frequent guest on Fox News's late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld where he was known as the Death Correspondent.
Baden has been author or co-author of more than 80 professional articles and books on aspects of forensic medicine and two non-fiction books, Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner and Dead Reckoning: the New Science of Catching Killers.
He is also the author, with his wife, attorney Linda Kenney Baden, of two forensic thrillers, Remains Silent and Skeleton Justice.