Dr. Hampl received his dental degree from the University of Minnesota in 1967. He spent three years in the oral and maxillofacial surgery training program at Bellevue Hospital and New York University in New York City. His first forensic dental experience was in conjunction with the New York City Medical Examiner's office while in oral surgery training. Upon completion of his oral and maxillofacial surgery training in 1970, Dr. Hampl moved to Tacoma, WA, where he maintained a private practice in oral and
maxillofacial surgery until his retirement in July, 1998. He now devotes all of his professional activity to his forensic odontology practice. Dr. Hampl has been instrumental in the founding of the Washington State Dental Association's Dental Identification Team, the formation of the Washington State Patrol's Missing and Unidentified Persons Unit and the passage of the Washington State law mandating marking of removable dental prostheses with the patient's name. Dr. Hampl is a member of the ADA, WSDA, Pierce County Dental Society (past trustee), American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (retired member) and the Washington State Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (past president). Dr. Hampl is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (1974) (retired). He became a diplomate of the America Board of Forensic Odontology in 1984. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the ABFO in 1990, 1997 and again in 2002. He was a member of the Credentialing and Examining Committee of the ABFO serving as its chairman in 1997. In 2004 he was elected secretary of the ABFO. He was also elected to the board of directors of the American Society of Forensic Odontology in 1990 and served as president of the ASFO in 1993. Dr. Hampl is a forensic odontologist on DMORT for region X. Dr. Hampl has been qualified as an expert witness in Alaska, Colorado, North Carolina, Oregon and Washington.