Neville Colman (July 30, 1945 – February 11, 2003) was a hematologist and forensic DNA expert who made ground-breaking discoveries about folate and nutrition. He also founded the West Side Soccer League, the largest all-volunteer sports organization in New York City. There is a sports field named after him in NYC's Riverside Park. Early life Colman was born in Germiston, South Africa, and attended the University of the Witwatersrand, where he received doctorates in medicine and pathology, as well as a masters in nuclear medicine. He was also described as an "outstanding athlete". He left South Africa in 1974, due to his opposition to the apartheid regime, and emigrated to the United States. Medical career Colman was chief of diagnostic pathology and clinical medicine for Continuum Health Partners, including St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center (now Mount Sinai West) and Beth Israel Hospital. He was also a professor and vice chairman of pathology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Prior to working at St. Luke's-Roosevelt, he was the head of the Center for Clinical Laboratories at Mount Sinai Hospital. Colman is credited with ground-breaking research on folate. During his doctoral research at the University of Witwatersrand, he discovered that the anemia suffered in many rural communities under attack from apartheid was caused by a folate deficiency. His research eventually led to the fortification of food products with folic acid, which is endorsed by the World Health Organization and the United States Food and Drug Administration. For much of his medical career, he worked closely with Victor Herbert on folate research. He also developed a technique for delivering supplementary vitamin B-12 with a nasal gel to those with Crohn's disease. Colman also worked extensively in the area of DNA research, calling for increased standards in its use as a forensic tool. Throughout the 1980s, he collaborated with attorney Peter Neufeld on work about the proper use of new scientific techniques in criminal cases. Colman frequently provided expert testimony in criminal cases on the veracity of DNA fingerprinting and quality control in criminology laboratories. Colman and Neufeld identified a problem with the lax regulation of crime laboratories, noting "there is more regulation of clinical laboratories that determine whether one has mononucleosis than there is of forensic laboratories able to produce DNA test results that can help send a person to the electric chair." In 1990, Colman and Neufeld summed up this work