I take issue with the position Patricia Wen attributes to me in “Medical examiner oversight urged’’ (Page A1, Aug. 25) — that I welcome “the idea of having the governor improve the operation of the medical examiner’s office.’’

I told Wen that forensic experts, prosecutors, and judges all around the country are changing their minds about the shaken-baby-syndrome/abusive-head-trauma diagnosis of murder, and that any review of homicide prosecutions based on that diagnosis should go all the way back to the Louise Woodward case. Such a review should include an inquiry into whether the Middlesex district attorney’s office that prosecuted Woodward and the three cases Wen writes about gave the medical examiner’s office all of the relevant information in the first place.

I also disagree with the idea of unilateral intervention by the governor, and instead recommend that any review of the Commonwealth’s handling of cases with this diagnosis should be a collaborative endeavor, involving all stakeholders.

I am disappointed that Wen did not include this material in her article.

Sharon L. Beckman

Associate clinical

professor of law

Director

Boston College

Innocence Program

Newton