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  • Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live In-Person Event on 05/11/2023 at 8:00 AM (EDT)

    Register here for the 2023 Inservice Exam

    Overview

    The 2023 ACMT Medical Toxicology Inservice Exam is intended for Fellows to review medical toxicology core content and practice sitting for an electronically administered exam.

    Registration Rates


         ACMT Member 


         $225


    Eligibility

    Fellows must be an ACMT Member in good standing. If you are not an ACMT Member or are not up-to-date on your membership dues, please contact ACMT Membership Manager Jenn Dorsey at membership@acmt.net

    Fellowship Program - Bulk Pay

    Fellowship programs who would like to pay in bulk for multiple fellows -- please fill out the following form. ACMT Staff will email you an invoice so that you can pay for multiple registrations at the same time. After payment for this invoice has been received, ACMT Staff will then email you a registration code to give your fellows so that they can self-register at no cost.

    Bulk Pay Invoice Request Form


    Questions?

    For questions, write to Sr. Program Manager Dana Karshenas, dana.turner@acmt.net

  • Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 05/04/2023 at 10:00 AM (EDT)

    May 4, 2023

    Overview

    Pathways to Building and Sustaining a Medical Toxicology Practice is a one-day (8-hour) virtual workshop on the variety of pathways available for establishing and maintaining a satisfying career in the field of medical toxicology.

    Led by experienced active medical toxicologists from a variety of practice settings, this workshop features panel discussions comparing the most common hospital-based, non-hospital-based, and non-clinical practice models, plus presentations on additional topics of interest, including adding addiction medicine services to a medical toxicology practice, hints and tips for contract negotiation, the basics of medical billing and coding, and the need for additional research on medical toxicology practice.

    All lectures will be recorded and made available on-demand after the live-streamed event.

    Please note that CME is not available for this content.

    Agenda | May 4, 2023

    10:00 - 10:10 AM ET      Welcome & Opening Remarks


    Panel Presentation: Hospital-Based Medical Toxicology Practice

    10:10 - 10:25 AM ET   "Phoenix Model" Admitting Service
                                          Anne-Michelle Ruha, MD, FACMT
                                          Chair, Department of Medical Toxicology
                                          Banner University Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ
      

    10:25 - 10:40 AM ET   "Pittsburgh Model" Admitting Service
                                          Anthony Pizon, MD, FACMT
                                          Chief of Division of Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine
                                          University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

    10:40 - 10:55 AM ET   Consult Service in the University Setting
                                          Joshua Radke, MD
                                          Medical Toxicologist, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
                                          University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA

    10:55 - 11:10 AM ET   Consult Service in the Community Setting
                                          Michelle Hieger, DO
                                          Emergency Physician, Medical Toxicologist, Addiction Medicine Physician
                                         WellSpan Health, York, PA

                                          Bryan Judge, MD, FAAEM, FACMT
                                          Emergency Physician, Medical Toxicologist
                                          Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI

    11:10 - 11:30 AM ET   Discussion / Q&A


    11:30 - 12:00 PM ET     Break - 30 min


    Panel Presentation: Medical Toxicology Practice in Other Clinical Settings

    12:00 - 12:15 PM ET    Virtual Consult Service
                                          Steven Offerman, MD, FACMT, FACEP
                                          Medical Director, KPNC Regional Toxicology Consultation Service
                                          Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Sacramento, CA

    12:15 - 12:30 PM ET    Outpatient Services
                                          Jerrold Leikin, MD, FACP, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT, FACOEM, FASAM
                                          Adjunct Clinical Professor, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
                                          University of Illinois - Chicago, Chicago, IL
                                          Professor of Medicine
                                          Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science, North Chicago, IL

    12:30 - 12:45 PM ET    Telehealth Experience in Medical Toxicology 
                                          Timothy Wiegand, MD, FACMT, FAACT, DFASAM
                                          Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine; Director of Toxicology and Toxicology/Addiction Consult Service
                                          Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

    12:45 - 1:00 PM ET      Interprofessional Consults
                                          Kristine Nanagas, MD
                                          Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine; Chief, Medical Toxicology Division
                                          Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

    1:00 - 1:20 PM ET       Discussion / Q&A


    1:20 - 1:50 PM ET        Break - 30 min


    1:50 - 2:20 PM ET       Adding Addiction Medicine Service to a Medical Toxicology Practice
                                         Ashley Haynes, MD, FACEP
                                         Medical Director
                                         Addiction Toxicology of Kansas, Wichita, KS

                                         Leslie Dye, MD, FACMT, FASAM, FAACT
                                         Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine; Assistant Medical Director
                                         Wright State University/Boonshoft School of Medicine, OneFifteen, Dayton, OH


    Panel Presentation: Non-Clinical Practice Models

    2:20 - 2:35 PM ET     Government and Public Health
                                       Stephanie Weiss, MD, PhD
                                       Staff Clinician, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch
                                       National Institute on Drug Abuse

    2:35 - 2:50 PM ET     Industry
                                       Sarah Eliza Dunn (Halcomb), MD, FACMT
                                       Medical Affairs Lead, Senior Science Fellow
                                       Bayer U.S. Crop Science

    2:50 - 3:05 PM ET     Medical-Legal Consulting / Forensics
                                       Jerrold Leikin, MD, FACP, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT, FACOEM, FASAM
                                       Adjunct Clinical Professor, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
                                       University of Illinois - Chicago, Chicago, IL
                                       Professor of Medicine
                                       Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science, North Chicago, IL

    3:05 - 3:20 PM ET     Discussion / Q&A


    3:20 - 3:50 PM ET       Break - 30 min


    3:50 - 4:50 PM ET    Negotiating Contracts
                                      Azeemuddin Ahmed, MD, MBA
                                      Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine; Executive Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
                                      University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
                                      Adjunct Clinical Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship
                                      University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

    4:50 - 5:20 PM ET    Understanding Medical Insurers and Medical Billing & Coding 101
                                       Tracey Loveland, CMBS
                                       University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

    5:20 - 5:50 PM ET    Practice Based Research: Can We Overcome the Challenges?
                                       Shooshan Danagoulian, PhD
                                       Associate Professor, Department of Economics
                                       Wayne State University


    5:50 - 6:00 PM ET    Closing Remarks / Adjourn

    Azeemuddin Ahmed, MD, MBA

    Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine; Executive Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

    University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

    Azeemuddin Ahmed, MD, MBA is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa. He practices and teaches Emergency Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Serving as Executive Vice Chair, he works closely with the department chair in all aspects of departmental administration with added focus on faculty recruitment, faculty development, faculty practice plan, faculty compensation, clinical innovation as well as strategic planning. Dr. Ahmed is board certified in Emergency Medicine and sub-specialty board certified in Emergency Medical Services by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

    His area of clinical expertise is pre-hospital care, and Dr. Ahmed serves as the Division and Fellowship Program Director for Emergency Medical Services in the Department of Emergency Medicine. In the realm of medical direction, he is Medical Director of Kinnick Stadium and Carver Hawkeye Arena as well as the Medical Director for the Bureau of Emergency Medical and Trauma Services, Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Ahmed is an active researcher with projects involving health services, pre-hospital care, and continues to publish case reports, book chapters, research abstracts and manuscripts in a variety of academic media. He presents didactic lectures both locally and nationally and is a member of several professional organizations devoted to the advancement of Emergency Medicine care, education and research. He has received numerous teaching awards from his trainees in recognition of his education efforts.

    Dr. Ahmed brings his education, enthusiasm, and real-world experience in conducting negotiations to the Dynamics of Negotiations class at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business. He has proficiency in negotiating in a variety of situations within the health care system, between organizational units, human resources and business development. He provides seminars on negotiation strategies and tactics to a variety of business and health care organizations regionally and nationally. He was recognized by the Tippie Executive MBA – Iowa City Classes of 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020 as a GREAT Instructor of the Year. In 2017, Dr. Ahmed was selected by the Tippie Executive MBA – Des Moines cohort as a GREAT Instructor of the Year and they also nominated him for the President and Provost Teaching Award.

    In his free time, Dr. Ahmed is an endurance athlete having completed 21 half marathons and 5 marathons (including the New York City Marathon).

    Shooshan Danagoulian, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Economics

    Wayne State University

    Dr. Shooshan Danagoulian is an associate professor of economics at Wayne State University. As a health economist, Dr. Danagoulian’s research focuses on health insurance utilization and delivery of care, emergency department care and environmental health outcomes.

    Sarah Eliza Dunn (Halcomb), MD, FACMT

    Medical Affairs Lead, Senior Science Fellow

    Bayer U.S. Crop Science

    Dr. S. Eliza Dunn (Halcomb) is an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist with a long-
    standing interest in global health.

    After completing her toxicology fellowship at NYU in 2006, Dr. Dunn returned to Washington University
    in St. Louis and started an ACGME accredited fellowship in Medical Toxicology.
    Over the following ten years, Dr. Dunn became increasingly involved with global health and
    humanitarian relief projects. She organized a relief mission to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, started
    the scholar track in Global Health for the Washington University Division of Emergency Medicine, and is
    one of the Global Health Scholars for the Department of Internal Medicine.

    Over the years, Dr. Dunn began to realize that in order to have a sustainable impact in global health,
    there needed to be an effort to focus on creative ways of addressing malnutrition and insect-borne
    illness, two of the most commonly encountered public health problems in developing countries. With
    that in mind, Dr. Dunn started working as the Medical Affairs Lead for Bayer, a global seed and chemical
    company with innovative technology that has great potential to remediate malnutrition.

    Dr. Dunn has lectured nationally and internationally on a diverse range of topics in medical toxicology
    and global health.

    Leslie R. Dye, MD, FACMT, FASAM, FACCT

    Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine, Assistant Medical Director

    Wright State University/Boonshoft School of Medicine, OneFifteen

    Leslie R. Dye, MD is triple board certified in emergency medicine, medical toxicology, and addiction medicine. She has worked in the fields of medical toxicology and addiction medicine for 30 years. In addition to her clinical expertise, she has academic and business content expertise from experiences as an editor-in-chief (EIC) of a peer-reviewed medical journal (Journal of Medical Toxicology) and EIC of physician and pharmacist content production for a leading international medical digital content provider. Her deep subject matter expertise is demonstrated in her role as senior editor of the textbook, Case Studies in Medical Toxicology, author of 18 peer reviewed publications and 16 textbook chapters, 66 national and 11 international presentations, 10 various commentaries, interviews, and podcasts. Her leadership skills have been proven in both corporate and academic environments, as professor at a medical school, long-term board member and past president of the American College of Medical Toxicology, Chair of the Addiction Medicine Committee, former co-chair, and co-moderator of the AACT Acute and Intensive Care Symposium, and as the manager of as many as 30 team members at an international corporation. She received a funded grant that enabled her to start the first poison control center in mainland China and trained 6 Chinese physicians in the field of medical toxicology over 3 years in the US. Dr. Dye is experienced in and continues to provide medical care in remote polar regions with no access to advanced medical facilities.

    Ashley Haynes, MD, FACEP

    Medical Director

    Addiction Toxicology of Kansas

    Dr. Ashley Haynes completed her medical training at the University of Kansas, followed by a combined emergency-internal medicine training program at East Carolina University.  She completed a toxicology fellowship at University of Texas Southwestern in 2016, remaining as faculty for a few years after while engaging in a faculty development project in addiction medicine.  She moved to Kansas in 2019 and now provides bedside toxicology and addiction medicine consultations at Ascension Via Christi hospitals in Wichita and periodically provides on-call support for the Kansas Poison Control Center.  Additionally, she is a program physician for an outpatient addiction treatment center, and provides medication assisted therapy services to an inpatient residential treatment facility.

    Michelle Hieger, DO

    Emergency Physician, Medical Toxicologist, and Addiction Medicine Physician

    Wellspan Health, York, PA

    I am a board-certified Medical Toxicologist, Addictionologist, and Emergency Medicine physician. I completed my residency at Memorial Hospital in York, PA. My fellowship was completed at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. I currently work at WellSpan York Hospital in York, PA, as an Emergency Physician, Medical Toxicologist, and working with in-patients starting treatment for addiction. I initiated the toxicology service at York Hospital and now I am the Medical Director for Medical Toxicology. I am interested in treating the poisoned patients at bedside, and especially interested in the antidotal therapy with physostigmine (if it returns) and flumazenil. I enjoy professional engagement with ACMT.

    Bryan S. Judge, MD, FACMT

    Professor of Emergency Medicine; Medical Toxicologist

    Michigan State University College of Medicine; Spectrum Health - Grand Rapids

    Jerrold Blair Leikin, MD, FACP, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT, FACOEM, FASAM

    Adjunct Clinical Professor Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences & Professor of Medicine

    University of Illinois Chicago and Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science

    I am a currently Adjunct Clinical Professor on the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Service of UI Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Professor of Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science in North Chicago, Ill.

    In 1980, I received my medical degree from the Chicago Medical School.  I then completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University (1984) followed by a three-year preceptorship/fellowship training in Medical Toxicology at Cook County Hospital and University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. I am Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medicine. 

    I served as the Associate Director of the Emergency Department at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago from 1998-2001.  During this time, I was also the Medical Director of the Rush Poison Control Center and served as Medical Director of the United States Drug Testing Laboratory (from 1991 -1996).  I was also the Medical Director of PROSAR (located in St. Paul, MN); a national call center devoted to industrial exposures and product safety issues, up until December 2013.

    I have presented over 200 research abstracts at national meetings (primarily to the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology) and have published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals.  I am the co-editor of the Poisoning and Toxicology Handbook (now in its fourth edition), published by CRC Press, and the American Medical Association Handbook of First Aid and Emergency Care, and published by Random House (New York).  I am also the co-editor with Dr. Robin McFee for the Toxico-terrorism book (McGraw Hill) and the Handbook of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Agent Exposure (CRC Press) both published in 2007.  I was also the co-editor of the American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia, published by Random House in 2003.  I am presently the Editor-in-Chief of the primary care journal, Disease-a-Month, published by Elsevier.  I was on the Illinois State Board of Health from 2016 – 2019.

    Kristine Nanagas, MD

    Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine; Chief, Medical Toxicology Division

    Indiana University School of Medicine

    Dr. Nanagas graduated from The Ohio State University School of Medicine and Public Health in 1999 before completing her Emergency Medicine residency at Methodist/Indiana University in 2002. She was inspired to do the Medical Toxicology fellowship (also at IU) after her resident rotation on the toxicology service. After negotiating cat visitation rights in exchange for cooperation with medical therapy from a particularly difficult patient and learning a whole new vocabulary of swear words from her colorful patients that month, she knew this was the specialty for her. She completed her Medical Toxicology fellowship in 2004 and has been a member of the IUSOM faculty since then. In addition to working in the IUH Methodist Emergency Department, she is the Division Chief for Medical Toxicology.  The Medical Toxicology consult service performs inpatient consults at the IUH Academic Health Center, the Riley Hospital for Children, and Eskenazi Health, in addition to providing medical backup for the Indiana Poison Center.  Her interests include clinical operations, deprescribing, and mentoring.  Her scholarly work focuses on the care of poisoned patients. Kris dearly loves her husband and three children- who all relish living near Eagle Creek Park and enjoying the outdoors there. She shares her home with numerous animals- some of whom are invited and some are merely invading and hard to eradicate.

    Steven R. Offerman, MD, FACMT, FACEP

    Medical Director, KPNC Regional Toxicology Consultation Service

    Kaiser Permanente Northern California

    Anthony Pizon, MD, FACMT

    Chief of Medical Toxicology Division, Professor of Emergency Medicine

    University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Anthony (Tony) Pizon received his medical degree from the University of Toledo School of Medicine in 2001.  He then completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2004 and his Medical Toxicology Fellowship at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona in 2006. Dr. Pizon is currently a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Medical Toxicology at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine. He serves as Chief of the Division of Medical Toxicology and Director of the Medical Toxicology Fellowship at UPMC. He is also Assistant Medical Director of both the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Poison Centers. Yet, most importantly, he is blessed with amazing wife, Caryn, and four wonderful children (Benjamin, Elizabeth, Gabriela, and Seraphina).

    Joshua Radke, MD

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

    University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

    Michelle Ruha, MD, FACMT

    Professor of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine; Chair, Department of Medical Toxicology; Chief, Section of Addiction Medicine (Department of Medical Toxicology)

    Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix

    Paul M. Wax, MD, FACMT

    Executive Director

    American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT)

    Dr. Wax is the Executive Director of the American College of Medical Toxicology. He received his B.A from Dartmouth College, his M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, his Emergency Medicine training at the UCLA Hospitals, and his Medical Toxicology training at Bellevue Medicine Center / New York University. He is Board-certified in both Medical Toxicology and Emergency Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Toxicology.

    Stephanie Weiss, MD, PhD

    Staff Clinician, Translational Addiction Medicine Branch

    National Institute on Drug Abuse

    Dr. Stephanie Weiss is the Staff Research Physician serving the Translational Addiction Medicine Branch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Intramural Research Program. After earning a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical chemistry, Dr. Weiss received her medical degree in 2011.  She is board certified in emergency medicine, addiction medicine, and medical toxicology and was selected to participate in the Boston University Research in Addiction Medicine Scholars Program prior to joining NIDA.  Dr. Weiss is responsible for providing optimal, safe, and ethical care to study participants and clinical support toward the TAMB mission conducting inpatient and outpatient proof-of-concept human laboratory studies. Her research interests include novel psychoactive substances, medication misuse, and improving interpretation of urine drug testing.

    Timothy Wiegand, MD, DFASAM, FACMT, FAACT

    Director of Addiction Medicine and Addiction Medicine Consults

    University of Rochester Medical Center

    Timothy J. Wiegand, MD, FACMT, FAACT, DFASAM is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester New York.  He is Board Certified in Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medicine and practices in Addiction Toxicology with a mix of clinical,  research, teaching, and other professional work.  Dr. Wiegand has served two terms on the Board of Directors for the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) and he is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) completing a term on the Executive Counsel as Vice President of ASAM.  He begins a two-year term as Treasurer of ASAM in April 2023.  Dr. Wiegand founded and led the Toxicology service at URMC until 2022 when he became Director of Addiction Medicine and Director of Addiction Medicine Consults also at URMC in the Department of Emergency Medicine.  Dr. Wiegand has served as Fellowship Director for the URMC Combined Addiction Medicine Fellowship and he is the Fellowship Director for the URMC Medical Toxicology fellowship expecting to formally begin once accredited, in July of 2023.

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         $250


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    • Access to the on-demand course for 1-year
    • Downloadable Attendance Certificate

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    Interested in becoming an ACMT Member? Contact our Membership Manager, Jenn Dorsey, at membership@acmt.net. Learn more at: www.acmt.net/membership


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  • Contains 4 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 04/20/2023 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

    Cases to be announced.

    Cases to be announced!


    Series Moderator: Lewis Nelson, MD, FACMT, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ

    About The Series: ACMT's National Case Conference (NCC) is a monthly webinar for ACMT members that features interesting cases seen by medical toxicologists nationwide. NCC is an educational endeavor and a quality improvement effort intended to improve patient care. It is not intended to define standard of care. Attempts have been made to ensure HIPAA compliance. All data and information provided in this activity is for informational purposes only. ACMT makes no representations as to accuracy, completeness, currentness, suitability, or validity of the content and will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use.

    This webinar is for ACMT members only.

  • Contains 4 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 04/11/2023 at 12:00 PM (EDT)

    Topic to be announced.

    Topic coming soon!

    Presenter: To be announced.


    Series Moderator: Nicholas E. Nacca, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

    About The Series: ACMT's Grand Rounds offer an in-depth and interactive platform for learning and discussion about issues that impact the research and practice of medical toxicology. Experts from within and outside medical toxicology will share their knowledge and experience and highlight areas for collaboration and mutual understanding.

    This webinar is for ACMT members only.

  • Contains 4 Component(s) Includes a Live Web Event on 04/07/2023 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

    Topic and cases to be announced.

    Topic and cases to be announced.


    Series Moderators

    • Timothy J. Wiegand, MD, FACMT, DFASAM (ACMT/ASAM Expert), Director of Toxicology and of the Toxicology Consult Service, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY  
    • Gloria J. Baciewicz, MD (ASAM Expert), Addiction Psycharcist, Strong Recovery; Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

    Panelists

    • To be announced

    About The Series: The ACMT/ASAM Addiction Toxicology Case Conference webinar series discusses Addiction/Toxicology cases in an interactive fashion featuring experts from Addiction Medicine, Addiction Psychiatry, and Medical Toxicology.

    This webinar is open to the public.

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  • Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live In-Person Event on 03/31/2023 at 8:00 AM (PDT)

    March 31 - April 2, 2023

    2023 ACMT Annual Scientific Meeting

    Early bird registration ends at midnight, Thursday, February 16th!

    March 31 - April 2, 2023
    San Diego, Marriott La Jolla, San Diego, CA

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    The ACMT Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) is an opportunity for specialists in the field to gather together to learn from the cutting-edge research of their peers. After a 2-year hiatus, ACMT is back for a fully in-person meeting in 2023, complete with all the networking and social opportunities that make our events so rich with engagement. The day preceding the annual meeting, ACMT will have it’s Pre-Symposium on “Self-Harm, Suicidality, and the Poisoned Patient: The Intersection of Toxicology and Mental Health” on March 30th. And the day before that, on March 29th, we are delighted to announce that our sister organization, the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT) will be joining us with their own half-day Pre-Symposium “DEI in Toxicology: What it Means for Patients and Learners.”


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    This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team. Continuing Education is pending for this activity. It is expected to be approved for 14.25 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change. 

    Continuing Medical Education (CME), Continuing Pharmacy Education (CPE) and Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) credits will be available for this activity for an additional fee. To receive continuing education credits, learners must attend the sessions in-person. Learners should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

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    Agenda

    This agenda is subject to change. All times listed are in local, Pacific Time Zone.


    Friday, March 31, 2023


    7:45 - 8:00 AM - Welcome & Introductions


    8:00 - 9:00 AM

    Platform Session 1

    001. Postpartum Maternal Opioid Therapy and The Risk of Adverse Neonatal Outcomes
    David Juurlink, MD, FACMT, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    002. Exposure to the Endocrine-Disrupting Metal Lead and Serum Estrogen Levels in Women
    Anna Gerald, Medical Student, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA

    003. Pediatric Risk of Mortality-III (PRISM III) and Pediatric Index of Mortality (PIM3) Scores among Pediatric Poisonings
    Rachel Culbreth, PhD, MPH, American College of Medical Toxicology, Phoenix, AZ

    004. Can We Predict the Next “Benadryl Challenge?” A Side-by-Side Comparison of RADARS® Web Monitoring and NPDS Data
    Hannah St. Francis, MD, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY


    9:00 - 9:45 AM

    Donovan Lectureship: Gut-Brain Axis and Psychoneuroendocrinology: Translation to Addiction Medicine

    Lorenzo Leggio, MD, PhD, Branch Chief, NIDA and NIAAA, Acting Clinical Director and Deputy Scientific Director, NIDA, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD


    9:45 - 10:30 AM

    The PFAS Epidemic: Addressing The Challenge

    Alan Woolf, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACMT, FAACT, Associate Chief Medical Education Officer, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA


    10:30 - 11:30 AM - Poster Session 1
    10:40 - 11:20 AM - Moderated Poster Forum 1


    11:30 - 1:00 PM - Break / Committee Meetings


    1:00 - 2:00 PM

    X-Factor: Xylazine

    Joshua DeBord, PhD, Senior Scientist, The Center for Forensic Science Research and Education, Willow Grove, PA
    Michael Levine, MD, FACMT, Associate Professor, Director of Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
    Matthew S. Salzman, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ


    2:00 - 3:00 PM

    ASAM Panel | Tricks of the Trade: Pain and Perioperative Management in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder

    Katherine Katzung, MD, FASAM, Chair, Emergency Department; Director, Toxicology & Addiction Medicine Program, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
    JoAn Laes, MD, FACMT, FASAM, Addiction Medicine Physician, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Allina Health, Minneapolis, MN
    Timothy Wiegand, MD, FACMT, FAACT, DFASAM, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Director of Toxicology and the Toxicology/Addiction Consult Service, Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

    Developed in Collaboration with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).


    3:00 - 3:30 PM

    Annual Review of Medical Toxicology Publications - Articles You May Have Missed from 2022-2023

    Daniel J. McCabe, MD, Director of the Division of Medical Toxicology & Associate Medical Director, University of Iowa & Iowa Poison Control Center, Iowa City, IA


    3:30 - 5:00 PM - Break / Committee Meetings


    5:00 - 6:30 PM - ACMT Annual Members Meeting and Awards Ceremony


    6:30 - 8:00 PM - 30th Anniversary - President's Reception


    Saturday, April 1, 2023


    7:45 - 8:00 AM - Morning Announcements

    Becker Medal Presentation


    8:00 - 9:00 AM

    Platform Session 2

    072. Veno-venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (VV-ECMO) Utilization in Acute Poisonings: A Retrospective Study of Extracorporeal Life Support Organization’s ECMO Registry
    Andrew Piner, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD

    074. Number and Variety of Detected Substances in a Regional Sample of the Illicit Drug Supply
    Frank Dicker, MD, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

    075. Trends in Medical Outcomes: A Retrospective Review of the National Poison Data System 2007-2021
    Rita Farah, MD, Division of Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA

    141. The California Substance Use Line: A Collaboration Between the California Poison Control System and National Clinician Consultation Center
    Craig Smollin, MD, FACMT, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA


    9:00 - 9:30 AM

    MedTox and Modern Warfare: Radiation and Current Events

    Ziad Kazzi, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT, Professor of Department of Emergency Medicine Professor, Emory University, Atlanta, GA


    9:30 - 10:15 AM

    ACMT Career Achievement Award | B is for Botulism

    B. Zane Horowitz, MD, FACMT, Associate Medical Director of Oregon-Alaska-Guam Poison Centers; Medical Director of Utah Poison Control Center; Professor of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR


    10:15 - 11:15 AM - Poster Session 2
    10:25 - 11:05 AM - Moderated Poster Forum 2


    11:15 - 12:15 PM

    AACT Panel | Mother, Baby & MOUD

    Meghan Spyres, MD, FACMT, Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
    Joshua D. Trebach, MD, Emergency Medical Physican and Medical Toxicologist, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA

    Developed in Collaboration with the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT).


    12:15 - 2:15 PM - Break / Committee Meetings


    2:15 - 3:45 PM

    MedTox Case Panel: Case-Based Conundrums

    Complications of Naloxone Administration and Inappropriate Early Code Status Change in a Case of Opioid Overdose
    Ryan Cole, MD, Fellow, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

    Saw Scale Viper (Echis carinatus sochureki) Envenomation Successfully Treated with Inoserp© MENA, and Experience with the AZA Antivenom Index
    Arthur Daigh, MD, Fellow, Indiana University/Indiana Poison Center, Bloomington, IN

    Recurrent and Escalating Salicylate Poisoning
    Betty Shuk Chan, MBBS, Attending, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, AU


    3:45 - 5:15 PM

    MedTox Shark Tank Research Forum

    Gastrointestinal Sequestration of Lipid Soluble Toxins
    Noah Berland, MD, Fellow - 2nd Year, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Medical Toxicology Fellowship, Newark, NJ

    Does Knowledge Inspire Action?
    Juliana Chang, MD, Fellow - 2nd Year, Northwell Health Medical Toxicology, Manhasset, NY

    Identification of Barriers to Placement in IPV Shelters for Individuals with Substance Use Disorders
    Tori Erhardt, MD, Medical Resident, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

    Climate Trends In US Incidence of Algal Toxin and Algal Toxin Associated Exposures
    Brett Johnson, MD, Fellow - 1st Year, UMass Memorial Toxicology Fellowship, Worcester, MA

    Pharmacogenomic Investigation of Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome and Cannabis Use Disorder
    Jennifer Zacharia, MD, Fellow - 1st Year, UMass Memorial Toxicology Fellowship, Worcester, MA


    5:15 - 6:45 PM

    Open Mic Competition

    Which to Lick? Take Your Pick
    Alexia Armenta, MD,  Fellow - 1st Year, Toxikon Consortium, Chicago, IL

    How Sweet It Is (to be cared by you)
    Juliana Chang, MD, Fellow - 2nd Year, Northwell Health Medical Toxicology, Manhasset, NY

    From Fang to Needle: Venom Throughout History
    Samy Chettat, MD, Fellow - 1st Year, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Aloha, OR

    The Sensitive Artist
    Matthew Dernbach, MD, Medical Resident, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

    Aum Shinrikyo – the cult of toxicologic terrorism
    Michael Kennan, MD, Fellow - 2nd Year, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY

    Bring Back the Barb
    Christopher Mitchell, MD, Fellow - 1st Year, Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA

    Pruno: A Recipe for Paralysis
    Tuyet-Anh Nguyen, MD, Fellow - 2nd Year, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

    Reframing Toxicology: A “Disease” of Socioeconomic Disparities
    Josue Zozaya, MD, Medical Resident, UTSW Emergency Medicine


    Sunday, April 2, 2023


    7:50 - 8:00 AM - Morning Announcements


    8:00 - 9:00 AM

    Lightning Oral Session

    136. Poison Center Utilization by Law Enforcement and Correctional Facilities: Single Center Data 2003-2022
    David Schaffer, MD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

    137. Yearly Trends and Regional Patterns of Novel Psychoactive Substances in Opioid Overdose Patients
    Paul Wax, MD, FACMT, American College of Medical Toxicology, Phoenix, AZ

    138. Young Adults With Acute Opioid Overdose: What Substances Are Actually Involved?
    Madeline Renny, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

    139. Intravenous Buprenorphine Conversion for Hospitalized Patients on Opioid Agonists
    Brandtly Yakey, DO, Michigan Poison and Drug Information Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI

    140. A Sunny Disposition: Substance Use Navigator (SUN) Associated with Decreased Hospital Utilization
    Daniel Lasoff, MD, UC San Diego, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Medical Toxicology, San Diego, CA

    142. Systemic Toxicity after Rattlesnake Envenomation in Patients Using Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in the North American Snakebite Registry
    Anne-Michelle Ruha, MD, FACMT, Banner - University Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ


    9:00 - 10:00 AM

    International Panel

    APAMT: Insight to Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning and its Treatment
    Nasim Zamani, MD, Fellowship of Clinical Toxicology, Shahid Beheshti University, Aliso Viejo, CA

    EAPCCT: Tetrodotoxin Poisoning and Lessepsian Migration to The Mediterranean Sea
    Ophir Lavon, MD, Head, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Unit, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

    MENATOX: Environmental and Occupational Challenges in Lebanon with the Current Situation
    Tharwat El Zahran, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Co-director of Toxicology Service, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

    Developed in Collaboration with the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology (APAMT), European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists (EAPCCT), and the Middle East & North Africa Clinical Toxicology Association (MENATOX).


    10:00 - 11:00 AM - Poster Session 3
    10:10 - 10:50 AM - Moderated Poster Forum 3


    11:00 - 11:25 AM

    Professional Development Workshop 1

    A Toxicologist Loose in the Med School, Opportunities for Undergraduate Medical Education
    Brenna Michelle Farmer, MD, MBA, MS, Vice Chief of Clinical Services, Department of Emergency Medicine, NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, New York City, NY
    Jeffrey Suchard, MD,Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine; Associate Dean for Basic Science Education, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
    Matthew Zuckerman, MD, Associate Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO


    11:35 - 12:00 PM - (pick 1 of 2)

    Professional Development Workshops 2 & 3

    Workshop 2: Supplementing Toxicology Fellowship Training to Enhance the Practice of Addiction Medicine
    Leslie R. Dye, MD, FACMT, FASAM, FACCT, Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine, Assistant Medical Director, Wright State University/Boonshoft School of Medicine, OneFifteen, Dayton, OH

    Workshop 3: Can you Escape the Toxin? Developing your own Toxicology Escape Room for Adult Leaners
    Alexis Cates, DO, Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA


    12:00 - 12:30 PM 

    A Brief History of Pharmaceutical Compounding and the Errors Associated with It

    Christopher James Watson, MD, Medical Toxicologist, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME
    James D. Whitledge, MD, Medical Toxicology Fellow, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA


    12:30 - 1:00 PM

    Novel Treatments in the Pipeline for Envenomations

    Nicklaus Brandehoff, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Toxicology Associates, Aurora, CO


    1:00 - 1:30 PM

    Making Social Media Nontoxic to Toxicologists

    Joshua D. Trebach, MD, Emergency Medical Physican and Medical Toxicologist, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
    Ryan Marino, MD, Assistant Professor, University Hospitals Cleveland & Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH


    1:30 - 2:00 PM

    What You Need to Know About MyToxCert and Recertifying in Medical Toxicology

    Robert G. Hendrickson, MD, FACMT, FACEP, FAACT, Director, Emergency Medicine Toxicology Fellowship; Associate Medical Director, Oregon Poison Center; Professor of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
    Andrew Ian Stolbach, MD, MPH, FACMT, Medical Toxicologist and Emergency Physician, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

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    Katherine Boyle, MD

    Director of Global Patient Safety & Risk Management

    Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

    Katherine Boyle, MD is an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist who recently took a position at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals as Director of Global Patient Safety & Risk Management. She was previously an attending at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. At BIDMC, she was the Director of the Division of Medical Toxicology and Associate Director of Research for the Emergency Department. In addition, she was a faculty member for the Boston Children's Hospital medical toxicology fellowship and the MA/RI Poison Control Center.  She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Medical School where she stayed to complete her emergency medicine residency and medical toxicology fellowship.

    Nicklaus Brandehoff, MD

    Assistant Clinical Professor

    Toxicology Associates

    Dr. Brandehoff is board certified in emergency medicine, medical toxicology, and addiction medicine with a focus on envenomation research. He has an appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and is faculty at the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center. He is also the President and Medical Director for the Asclepius Snakebite Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit, that focuses on improving snakebite education and management in West Africa.

    Alexis Cates, DO

    Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology

    Ochsner Medical Center

    Alexis Cates, DO trained in Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA.  She recently returned home to New Orleans, LA and is now working to develop a Medical Toxicology division at Ochsner Medical Center.  Professionally, she enjoys academics, perinatal toxicology, and health policy.  She is the mother of two active boys, and she and her husband enjoy road trips and adventures with the kids.

    Peter Chai, MD, MMS

    Assistant Professor

    Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Dr. Peter R Chai is an assistant professor of emergency medicine and medical toxicology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and affiliate research scholar at the Koch Institute for Integrated Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The Fenway Institute. He is also research faculty at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Chai’s research primarily involves the development and implementation of technological solutions that detect and respond to changes in disease. These translational projects ranges from design of novel robotic and sensor systems in animal models to human clinical trials to test the implementation of injectable and ingestible sensor systems and overlying behavioral science architecture to respond to disease states.  Specifically, Dr. Chai is interested in applying ingestible electronic sensor systems to understand medication adherence in the context of substance use and HIV treatment/prevention. His work in developing ingestible sensors and their overlying behavioral interventions as closed loop systems to measure, reinforce and provide tools for PrEP and ART adherence has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and industry partners.

    Joshua DeBord, PhD

    Senior Scientist

    The Center for Forensic Science Research and Education

    Dr. Joshua (Josh) DeBord is a Senior Scientist at the CFSRE working in the areas of forensic toxicology and forensic chemistry. Dr. DeBord joined the CFSRE in early 2022 and performs R&D on challenging toxicological casework and profiles physical drug evidence on projects related to the CFSRE’s drug characterization initiatives, including CFSRE’s NPS Discovery program.

    Dr. DeBord graduated with a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D., each in Chemistry, from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, FL. Dr. DeBord’s doctoral research was conducted under the mentorship of Professor José Almirall on profiling and geographic provenance determination of heroin. Before joining CFSRE, Dr. DeBord was employed at the North Louisiana Crime Lab in Shreveport, LA, as a forensic chemist and toxicologist. Beginning there in 2018, Dr. DeBord and two colleagues started the toxicology section from only blood ethanol analysis to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation for qualitative determination and quantitative measurement of most drugs by March 2020. He also assisted with the development and implementation of the North Louisiana Crime Lab’s statistical sampling procedure to reduce backlog in the large-seizure drug casework. He continued to perform casework analysis and expert testimony before joining CFSRE in 2022.

    Dr. DeBord is passionate about teaching, research, and mentorship. His research interests focus on applied research for increasing the capabilities of publicly funded forensic labs and improving the work experience for forensic professionals.

    Leslie R. Dye, MD, FACMT, FASAM, FACCT

    Clinical Professor, Emergency Medicine, Assistant Medical Director

    Wright State University/Boonshoft School of Medicine, OneFifteen

    Leslie R. Dye, MD is triple board certified in emergency medicine, medical toxicology, and addiction medicine. She has worked in the fields of medical toxicology and addiction medicine for 30 years. In addition to her clinical expertise, she has academic and business content expertise from experiences as an editor-in-chief (EIC) of a peer-reviewed medical journal (Journal of Medical Toxicology) and EIC of physician and pharmacist content production for a leading international medical digital content provider. Her deep subject matter expertise is demonstrated in her role as senior editor of the textbook, Case Studies in Medical Toxicology, author of 18 peer reviewed publications and 16 textbook chapters, 66 national and 11 international presentations, 10 various commentaries, interviews, and podcasts. Her leadership skills have been proven in both corporate and academic environments, as professor at a medical school, long-term board member and past president of the American College of Medical Toxicology, Chair of the Addiction Medicine Committee, former co-chair, and co-moderator of the AACT Acute and Intensive Care Symposium, and as the manager of as many as 30 team members at an international corporation. She received a funded grant that enabled her to start the first poison control center in mainland China and trained 6 Chinese physicians in the field of medical toxicology over 3 years in the US. Dr. Dye is experienced in and continues to provide medical care in remote polar regions with no access to advanced medical facilities.

    Tharwat El Zahran, MD

    Medical Director, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

    American University of Beirut Medical Center

    Dr. Tharwat El Zahran is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Medical director for the emergency department at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC)

    She completed a fellowship training in medical toxicology at Emory University and CDC, and currently co-directs the medical toxicology service at AUBMC.

    Brenna Farmer, MD, MBA, MS

    Vice Chair & Chief of Emergency Medicine

    NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital & Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine

    Dr. Brenna Farmer is Chief of Emergency Medicine at NY Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and Vice Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine. She trained in Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and in toxicology at NYU/Bellevue and the New York City Poison Control Center. She earned her medical degree from East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine and her executive MBA from Cornell and MS in Healthcare Leadership from Cornell's Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Her major academic interests are medication safety, patient safety, and acute bedside care of the toxicologic patient.

    Rob Hendrickson, MD

    Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medical Director, Program Director

    Oregon Health and Science University, Oregon Poison Center, OHSU Fellowship in Medical Toxicology

    Dr. Hendrickson is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicologist at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. He is the Program Director of the Fellowship in Medical Toxicology at OHSU and the Medical Director of the Oregon Poison Center, serving Oregon, Alaska, and Guam.

    B. Zane Horowitz, MD, FACMT

    Associate Medical Director

    Oregon-Alaska-Guam Poison Centers

    Dr. B. Zane Horowitz served as the medical director of the Oregon-Alaska-Guam Poison Center for 22 years. He also served as the medical director for the Utah Poison Control Center for 7 of those years. He currently continues to teach at Oregon Health and Science University in medical toxicology, and has authored over 90 publications.

    Katherine Katzung, MD, FACEP, FASAM

    Director of Addiction & Toxicology Program & Emergency Care Physician

    Abbott Northwestern Hospital & Emergency Care Consultants

    Katherine Katzung, MD is an attending physician in the emergency department at Abbott Northwestern, where she serves as chair of the department.  Additionally, she is the medical director of the hospital’s addiction medicine and toxicology program, which began in 2020 after she received grant funding to initiate a hospital-based toxicology/addiction medicine consult service as well as an  emergency department-based addiction medicine "bridge" clinic to provide continuity of care for patients initiated on Suboxone.  This innovative program allows patients evaluated at Abbott Northwestern in the emergency department or inpatient units continuity of care, while focusing on harm-reduction strategies, until they can be given a warm hand-off to community providers.

    A graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, she completed emergency medicine training at Regions Hospital in St. Paul and additional fellowship training in medical toxicology.  She is board certified in emergency medicine, medical toxicology, and addiction medicine.  Her clinical interests surround the intersection of these 3 specialties, with special focus on early ED & hospital-based interventions to evaluate and treat substance use disorder, including initiation of medication assisted therapies.

    She volunteers as a consultant for the Minnesota Poison Control System in addition to serving on the board of the Steve Rummler HOPE Network and acts as medical director of its overdose prevention program.

    Ziad Kazzi, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT

    Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

    Emory University School of Medicine

    Born in 1975 and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Dr. Kazzi trained in Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta (2000-03) where he served as a chief resident before completing a subspecialty fellowship in Medical Toxicology at Emory University, Georgia Poison Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology. Dr. Kazzi joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) between 2005 and 2008 where he served as a Medical Toxicologist for the Regional Poison Control Center in Birmingham and the Alabama Poison Center. Currently, he is an associate professor at the department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia as well as the director of the International Toxicology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at Emory University (http://www.em.emory.edu/services/toxicology/international_postdoc_training.html).

    He is also the assistant medical director of the Georgia Poison Center (www.georgiapoisoncenter.org) and a medical toxicologist at the Radiation Studies Branch of the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/) where he participates in emergency preparedness and response activities in radiation.

    As an emergency physician and toxicologist, Dr. Kazzi specializes in the recognition, triage, and management of poisonings and holds a deep interest in the areas of Radiation and International Toxicology. Over the past decade, he developed strong ties to India in the areas of medical toxicology, mass gathering medical preparedness, radiation emergency medicine, blast injuries and hazmat. Through his collaboration with the CDC, AIIMS, and PGIMER Chandigarh, he has delivered and co-directed the first Advanced Hazmat Life Support trainings in Ahmedabad and Delhi. He organized a number of training conferences in Nashik, Pune, Ujjain and Delhi and has been an invited speaker at the annual INDUS EM world congress. He is an active and founding board member of the Middle East North Africa Toxicology Association (www.menatox.org) and currently serves as its President. He is also a board member and chairs the International Committee of the American College of Medical Toxicology (www.acmt.net).

    JoAn Laes, MD, DFASAM, FACMT

    Addiction Staff Physician

    Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Allina Health

    JoAn Laes, MD, DFASAM, FACMT is an addiction medicine physician in Minneapolis, Minnesota, focusing on inpatient addiction medicine and toxicology consultation as well as experience in outpatient treatment of opioid and other substance use disorders. She is also a core medical toxicology faculty for the Minnesota Poison Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and medical director for Missions Inc. Detox facility in Plymouth, Minnesota. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Medical Toxicology, and Addiction Medicine. She completed internal medicine residency at Hennepin County Medical Center and medical toxicology fellowship at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota.

    Ophir Lavon, MD

    Head of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Unit

    Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Unit, Carmel Medical Center

    Ophir Nelson is a Doctor of Medicine (MD)at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. He is also a Board-Certified Expert in Internal Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Chair, a Israel Society of Toxicology. Dr. Ophir serves on the Israel Medical Association as a Board member, and is a member of the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists. He is head of the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Unit, Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, Israel. Dr. Ophir is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. He also serves as the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology Chair in the National Antidote Stockpiling Committee. Dr. Ophir additionally serves in the Israel Ministry of Health as a Board member, and is a member of the Israel Association for Clinical Pharmacology, Israel Medical Association Member, and the American College of Medical Toxicology. He is the Former Head, Patient Safety and Risk Management Unit, Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, Israel.

    Lorenzo Leggio, MD, PhD

    Branch Chief & Acting Clinical Director

    NIDA & NIAAA

    Dr. Lorenzo Leggio is a Senior Investigator in the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) with faculty appointments both at NIDA and NIAAA. He serves as Chief of the Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, a joint NIDA and NIAAA laboratory. He also serves as the NIDA Deputy Scientific Director, NIDA Acting Clinical Director, and Chief of the NIDA IRP Translational Addiction Medicine Branch. He also serves as a NIH Senior Attending Medical Staff and as senior medical advisor to the NIAAA Director. Dr. Leggio received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Rome and ‘Agostino Gemelli’ hospital, where he also completed residency and received Board Certification in Internal Medicine. He was a visiting research associate, then postdoctoral research associate in Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, Providence, RI. In 2010, he joined the faculty of the Brown University Medical School as Assistant Professor at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, where he still holds an adjunct appointment as Professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Addiction Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience at Georgetown University. 

    Dr. Leggio’s clinical research has been primarily focused on the treatment of alcohol and substance use disorders, with a special emphasis on the role of microbiome-gut-liver-brain and neuroendocrine pathways as well as GABAergic pathways; and on the medical consequences of alcohol use disorder, focusing on alcohol-associated liver disease. As a Principal Investigator at Brown University, Dr. Leggio received extramural research funding from NIAAA and NIDA, as well as from Brown University, the European Foundation for Alcohol Research, ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research, and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD Young Investigator Award). At Brown University first, and at the NIH since 2012, Dr. Leggio, together with his team, colleagues and collaborators have pioneered and conducted work on medication development, on the role of the microbiome-gut-liver-brain axis and on the role of neuroendocrine pathways in addictive behaviors via human laboratory studies and clinical trials as well as via translational and reverse translational experimental medicine approaches. 

    In 2022, Dr. Leggio was elected Fellow of the American College on Neuropsychopharmacology. Among other awards, Dr. Leggio received the 2008 Nordmann Award from the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, the 2016 Early Career Investigator Award from the Research Society on Alcoholism, the 2018 Eva King Killam Award from the American College on Neuropsychopharmacology and the 2020 Jacob P. Waletzky Award from the Society for Neuroscience.

    Michael Levine, MD, FACMT

    Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

    University of California, Los Angeles

    Michael Levine is a Los Angeles native, who completed his emergency medicine residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine program, based out of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. After residency, he completed his medical toxicology fellowship at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ. After staying as faculty for a year in Phoenix, he moved back to Los Angeles, where he joined the faculty at USC. He is currently the division chief of medical toxicology. He is actively involved in patient care, research, and serves on numerous hospital and university committees. He is an active member of American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Medical Toxicology, and is a member of the Toxicology Investigator's Consortium.

    Ryan Marino, MD

    Assistant Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine & Psychiatry

    Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

    Ryan Marino, MD is a medical toxicologist, emergency physician and addiction medicine specialist in Cleveland, OH. He currently practices at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Drug and Poison Information Center, and is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is the Medical Director for the Toxicology & Addiction Bridge Clinic at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Outside of work he can often be found spending way too much time on social media.

    Dan McCabe, MD

    Director of the Division of Medical Toxicology & Associate Medical Director

    University of Iowa & Iowa Poison Control Center

    Dr. Dan McCabe is a medical toxicologist and emergency medicine physician at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, as well as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Iowa, the Director of the Division of Medical Toxicology at the University of Iowa, and the Associate Medical Director for the Iowa Poison Control Center. Dr. McCabe received his medical degree from the University of Iowa. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at Cook County Hospital and a fellowship in medical toxicology at the Regions Hospital/Minnesota Poison Control System. Dr. McCabe has a broad range of interests including improvement of care for the poisoned patient, toxicology, addiction medicine, resource utilization, and public health.

    Elizabeth Moore, DO

    Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

    Weill Cornell Medicine

    Dr. Moore is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.  She completed her Emergency Medicine Residency training at Lehigh Valley Health Network in and her Fellowship in Medical Toxicology at Banner-University Medical Center in Phoenix. She is actively involved in Women in Toxicology (WiT), and helps to produce the  “Tox in Ten” and “ ACMT Highlights” Podcast.

    Mark Mycyk, MD

    Chair of Research

    Cook County Health

    Mark Mycyk currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Medical Toxicology and Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cook County Health in Chicago.

    Todd Phillips, MD

    Director of Toxicology

    Integrative Emergency Services

    Dr. Phillips is a graduate of Texas A&M University, Class of 2007, with a Bachelor’s in Biomedical Science.  He completed medical school at Texas Tech University School of Medicine in 2011 and attended the University of Pittsburgh for both residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Medical Toxicology from 2011 – 2016.  Following graduation, he accepted a position at John Peter Smith in Fort Worth, Texas where he served as their Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine residency program and founded the inaugural Division of Medical Toxicology.  Dr. Phillips then transitioned to University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas where he served as the Program Director of the Medical Toxicology Fellowship. Dr. Phillips is looking forward to his upcoming transition to Director of Toxicology for Integrative Emergency Services in Dallas/Fort Worth. His professional interests include medical education, medical toxicology advocacy, and alcohol withdrawal. 

    Matthew Salzman, MD

    Assistant Professor

    Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

    Matthew Salzman received his Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Rochester and his Medical Degree from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.  He trained in Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology at Drexel University College of Medicine.  Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Division of Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.  He is the Medical Director for the In-patient Addiction Medicine Consult service as well as Medical Director for Research for Addiction Medicine at Cooper.  He is also a volunteer consultant in toxicology for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Poison Control Center.

    Andrew Stolbach, MD, MPH

    Medical Toxicologist and Emergency Physician

    Johns Hopkins University

    Andrew Stolbach is currently Chair of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) Medical Toxicology Subboard. ABEM writes and administers board certification materials including MyToxCert.

    Jeffrey Suchard, MD

    Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine & Associate Dean for Basic Science Education

    University of California, Irvine

    Jeffrey Suchard is an Emergency Physician and Medical Toxicologist at the University of California, Irvine.  After undergraduate studies in Biochemistry at UC Berkeley, he attended medical school at UCLA, EM residency at UConn, then completed medical toxicology fellowship in Phoenix, AZ.  Dr. Suchard has worked clinically at UC Irvine since 1999 and began his current involvement in medical student education in 2010.  He teaches Epidemiology & Biostatistics to the MS1 class (since 2010), is the course director for MS2 Medical Pharmacology (since 2011), and serves as Associate Dean for Basic Science Education (since 2014).

    Trevonne Thompson, MD

    Professor of Emergency Medicine & Medical Toxicology

    University of Illinois College of Medicine/Toxikon Consortium

    Dr. Trevonne M. Thompson is an attending emergency physician and medical toxicologist at UI Health and a tenured professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine (UICOM). He obtained his undergraduate degree from Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. After graduating with a degree in Biology and minors in Chemistry and Spanish, he attended medical school at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. He served his emergency medicine residency at Cook County Hospital (now Stroger Hospital of Cook County). After serving as Chief Resident in Emergency Medicine, he completed a Medical Toxicology fellowship at the Toxikon Consortium in Chicago. Dr. Thompson is the head of the Division of Medical Toxicology within the Department of Emergency Medicine at UICOM. He leads the medical toxicology consultation service and clinic at UI Health. He is a consultant to the Illinois Poison Center and is an associate program director for the Toxikon Consortium Medical Toxicology Fellowship.

    Dr. Thompson is the Associate Dean for Admissions for the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He is a past chair of the Emergency Medicine Section of the National Medical Association.

    Michael Toce, MD, MS

    Instructor of Pediatrics

    Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

    Dr. Michael Toce completed his undergraduate studies at Carleton College where he received a B.A. in biology and biochemistry. He received a M.S. in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his M.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed his pediatrics residency at the Boston Combined Residency Program before completing a Medical Toxicology Fellowship and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. He is currently an attending in the Boston Children's Hospital Emergency Department and works as a Medical Toxicologist at the MA/RI Poison Control Center.

    Joshua Trebach, MD

    Emergency Medicine Physician & Medical Toxicologist

    University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

    Josh Trebach is an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics. He completed his undergraduate training at Virginia Tech, medical school training and residency at Johns Hopkins, and toxicology fellowship at New York University/New York City Poison Control Center. Josh is currently the Director of Resident Medical Toxicology Education at the University of Iowa and is passionate about all things toxicology, medical education, social media, LGBTQ health, and animal rescue.

    Christopher James Watson, MD

    Medical Toxicologist

    Maine Medical Center

    James Watson is a board certified medical toxicologist and emergency medicine physician practicing at Maine Medical Center and the Northern New England Poison Center, and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. James graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 2017 before completing residency training at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and fellowship training at the Harvard Medical Toxicology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital; both in Boston, Massachusetts. His academic interests include medical education, resource utilization within medical toxicology, and critical care toxicology. James is a Portland native, and lives in Southern Maine with his wife, son, and rescue dog Mowgli.

    James Whitledge, MD

    Medical Toxicology Fellow

    Boston Children's Hospital

    James Whitledge, MD is a Medical Toxicology Fellow at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, MA. He is also an Emergency Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA. In his free time he also is the current Co-Chair of the AACT Herbs & Dietary Supplements Section.

    Timothy Wiegand, MD, DFASAM, FACMT, FAACT

    Director of Addiction Medicine and Addiction Medicine Consults

    University of Rochester Medical Center

    Timothy J. Wiegand, MD, FACMT, FAACT, DFASAM is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester New York.  He is Board Certified in Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medicine and practices in Addiction Toxicology with a mix of clinical,  research, teaching, and other professional work.  Dr. Wiegand has served two terms on the Board of Directors for the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) and he is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) completing a term on the Executive Counsel as Vice President of ASAM.  He begins a two-year term as Treasurer of ASAM in April 2023.  Dr. Wiegand founded and led the Toxicology service at URMC until 2022 when he became Director of Addiction Medicine and Director of Addiction Medicine Consults also at URMC in the Department of Emergency Medicine.  Dr. Wiegand has served as Fellowship Director for the URMC Combined Addiction Medicine Fellowship and he is the Fellowship Director for the URMC Medical Toxicology fellowship expecting to formally begin once accredited, in July of 2023.

    Alan D. Woolf, MD, MPH, FACMT, FAAP, FACCT

    Associate Chief Medical Education Officer

    Boston Children's Hospital

    Dr. Alan D. Woolf is a pediatrician and medical toxicologist. He is the Associate Chief Medical Education Officer at Boston Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He is Medical Director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, Director of the Pediatric Environmental Health Fellowship Training Program, and Principal Investigator of the Region 1 New England Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Environmental Health & Climate Change and a member of the PFAS Subcommittee of the National PEHSU Program. Dr. Woolf has served as a consultant regarding PFAS water contamination to both the New Hampshire and Massachusetts Departments of Public Health since 2014. He co-authored one of the first papers to describe the PFAS water contamination event in Portsmouth NH and was a ‘Community Liaison’ giving input to the NASEM Report on PFAS published in 2022. He is currently a member of the New Hampshire State Advisory Committee on PFAS and cancer. 

    Dr. Woolf is a past-president of both the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology and the American Association of Poison Control Centers. In 2018, Dr. Woolf received the Career Achievement Award from the AACT and, in 2019, he was named the Louis Roche Lecturer by the European Association of Poisons Centers and Clinical Toxicologists. He is the Editor of the recent book The History of Modern Clinical Toxicology published by Elsevier Publishers in 2021.

    Nasim Zamani, MD

    Fellowship of Clinical Toxicology

    Shahid Beheshti University

    Nasim Zamani graduated from Azad University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran in 2004. She started residency in Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology in 2008 and finished the course with the first rank of the national board followed by fellowship program in clinical toxicology in Loghman Hakim Hospital- one of the largest in-patient clinical toxicology centers in the world- in affiliation with Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. After graduation, She started to work in the same setting as attending physician in 2014 where she was responsible for patient treatment, teaching, and research in the field. She has won three international grants in the field of clinical toxicology and is currently a board member of APAMT and a member of EAPCCT.

    Matthew Zuckerman, MD

    Associate Professor

    University of Colorado School of Medicine

    Dr. Matt Zuckerman is an medical toxicologist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety. He is the pharmacology content director for the CU School of Medicine curriculum.

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    March 30, 2023

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    2023 ACMT Symposium | Self-Harm, Suicidality, and the Poisoned Patient: The Intersection of Toxicology and Mental Health
    Thursday, March 30, 2023
    San Diego, Marriott La Jolla, San Diego, CA

    Suicide is a major public health problem and leading cause of preventable death. The practice of medical toxicology often involves caring for patients who injure themselves (or attempt injury) by poisoning. Toxic exposures may affect the central nervous system, cause neuropsychiatric symptoms, and increase the likelihood of future suicidal behavior. 

    "Toxicologists interact on a daily basis with patients who have myriad mental health problems, and in many cases those sufferings increase the risk of suicide,” says symposium organizer Mark Su, MD, MPH, FACMT. “As providers for patients with intentional xenobiotic exposures and suicide attempts, the toxicology community must be cognizant of these complex issues and understand substantive ways to address them in real time." 

    This symposium will discuss the ethics, psychology, management, and global epidemiology of the suicidal patient through the toxicology lens. Clinicians will also learn about lethal means restriction, care of the “frequent attempter,” and strategies to prevent death by suicide. Ultimately, the course will hopefully help us better understand the suicidal toxicology patient and improve their care. 

    This program brings together distinguished experts in Medical Toxicology, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, Medical Ethics, Military Medicine, Addiction Medicine, Public Health and related fields. 

    Topics include: 

    Ethical Issues in Treatment and Research 
    Ethical Allocation of Resources: Transplant and the Suicidal Patient 
    Psychology of Suicidal Behavior and Access to Means 
    The Role of Medical Toxicology in Prevention of Suicidality 
    The High Utilizer and Recurrent Suicidality 
    Special Populations: Neuropsychiatric Consequences of Military and Occupational Exposures
    The Intersection of Forensic Toxicology & Suicide: How To Determine Death by Suicidal Intent 
    The event will conclude with “A Global Perspective on Suicide by Self-Poisoning” panel featuring international medical and public health experts representing the U.S., Scotland, Lebanon, Australia, and France. 


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    Agenda

    All times listed in local, Pacific Time Zone.


    7:45 - 8:00 AM - Opening Remarks


    8:00 - 8:45 AM

    Caring for the Suicidal Patient: Ethical Issues in Treatment and Research

    Dominic Sisti, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA


    8:45 - 9:15 AM

    Ethical Allocation of Resources: Transplant and the Suicidal Patient

    Filza Hussain, MD Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Medical Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA


    9:15 - 9:45 AM

    Psychology of Suicidal Behavior

    Elizabeth Ballard, PhD, Associate Scientist, NIMH, Silver Spring, MD


    9:45 - 10:15 AM

    Access to Means

    J.J. Rasimas, MD, FAACT, FACLP, FACMT., FACPsych, Professor of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota, Penn State College of Medicine, Health PEI, Charlottetown, PE  Canada


    10:15 - 10:30 AM - Morning Break


    10:30 - 11:00 AM

    The Role of Med Tox in Prevention of Suicidality

    Larissa K. Laskowski, DO, Assistant Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, Health + Hospitals Bellevue, New York, NY


    11:00 - 11:30 AM

    Recurrent Suicidality

    Yaron Finkelstein, MD, FACMT, Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto, Clinician-Investigator faculty at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


    11:30 - 12:00 PM

    The High Utilizer Through the Lens of Suicidality

    Gregory Carter, M.B.B.S. FRANZCP, PhD, Conjoint Professor in Psychiatry,School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle, Waratah, NSW, AUS


    12:00 - 1:30 PM - Lunch Break


    1:30 - 2:00 PM

    Neuropsychiatric Consequences of Occupational and Environmental Exposures

    Mike Holland, MD, FEAPCCT, FAACT, FACOEM, FACMT, FACEP, Director of Occupational Medicine, Saratoga Hospital, Saratoga Springs, NY


    2:00 - 2:30 PM

    Neuropsychiatric Consequences of Military Exposures

    LCDR T. Wolfgang Klotz, MD, Psychiatrist, United States Navy, San Diego, CA


    2:30 - 3:00 PM

    The Intersection of Forensic Toxicology & Suicide: How To Determine Death by Suicidal Intent

    Steven Campman, MD, Chief Medical Examiner, San Diego County, San Diego, CA


    3:00 - 4:00 PM

    Panel | Global Perspective on Suicide by Self-Poisoning

    Michael Eddleston, MD, Professor of Clinical Toxicology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Tharwat El Zahran, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology, Co-director, Toxicology Services, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
    Andrew Dawson, MD, Clinical Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology & Central Clinical School, University of Sydney, Australia
    Bruno Mégarbane, MD, Head of the Department of Medical and Toxicological Critical Care, Paris Cité University Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    CAPT (Dr.) Josh Schier, MD, MPH, USPHS, Chief Medical Officer, United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps, Senior Medical Officer and Medical Toxicologist, Assistant Professor, Dept of Emergency Medicine, Section of Toxicology, CDC, Emory University of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

    Elizabeth Ballard, PhD

    Director of Psychology and Behavior Research, Predoctoral Training

    Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch

    Dr. Elizabeth Ballard is the Director of Psychology and Behavior Research and the Director of Predoctoral Training at the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch in the National Institute of Mental Health.  She is trained as a clinical psychologist from the Catholic University of America and has extensive clinical experience working with suicidal patients.  She completed her predoctoral internship at the Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System and a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. As an associate scientist, she is the Lead Associate Investigator on the Neurobiology of Suicide Protocol in the Intramural Program of the NIMH.  She has published over 95 articles and her research interests include short term risk factors for suicide and rapid acting treatments for suicidal thoughts.

    Steven Campman, MD

    Chief Medical Examiner

    San Diego County

    Dr. Campman is San Diego County’s Chief Medical Examiner.  He earned his B.S. in Biology from Loyola Marymount University in 1987; graduated from Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, in 1992, and then completed residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, in 1997.  Following fellowship training in Forensic Pathology with the Northern California Forensic Pathology Group at the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office in 1998, he went to work for the US Air Force and was stationed at the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, in Washington DC, as Associate, then Deputy and Chief Deputy Medical Examiner for Medicolegal Operations and Investigations, until he went to work for the County in 2001 (later continuing to serve in the Air Force Reserve as a Regional Medical Examiner until he retired).  He is Board Certified in Anatomical/Clinical, and Forensic Pathology, and leads the Medical Examiner’s Department while continuing to regularly perform autopsies, and testify in CA Superior Court.

    Gregory Carter, M.B.B.S. FRANZCP, PhD

    Acting Director of Dept. Consultation Liaison Psychiatry & Conjoint Professor in Psychiatry

    University of Newcastle School of Medicine and Public Health

    Professor Carter is currently the Senior Staff Specialist and Acting Director of Dept. Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, Waratah; and Conjoint Professor in Psychiatry in the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle. He is a Chief Investigator for the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention (CRESP 2.0). He is the Chair for the RANZCP for the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Deliberate Self-Harm, a member of the Presidents Suicide Advisory Committee and the RANZCP representative to the Prime Minister’s Suicide Advisory Group.

    Current areas of clinical and research interest include; deliberate self-poisoning, suicide prevention, epidemiology of suicidal behaviours, delirium, screening for depression, somatisation, organ donation and psycho-oncology.

    Andrew Dawson, FRCP, FRACP, FCCP, FAMCT, FEAPCCT

    Director National Poisons Register & Clinical Toxicology

    Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

    Andrew Dawson is an Australian Clinical Pharmacologist and Toxicologist whose major interest is in translational clinical toxicology research to produce changes in policy and clinical practice.

    He established the Australian Hunter Area Toxicology Service in Newcastle in 1987, research included interventions for deliberate self-harm, relative toxicity of drugs in overdose and prediction of toxicity.

    In 2004 he moved to Sri Lanka to establish the South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration. This group built sustainable research capacity addressing deliberate self-harm with pesticides and improved clinical practice in resource poor settings. This research contributed to policy that reduced Sri Lankan national suicide deaths by 50%

    In 2010 he returned to Australia and became the Director of Clinical Toxicology Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and the Director of the New South Wales Poison Information Centre (to 2021) at the Childrens Hospital Westmead. He is Clinical Professor Medicine, University of Sydney and Adjunct Professor School of Medicine University of NSW. Current interests include management of institutional responses to patients with challenging self-harm behaviours, substance use disorder and self-harm, evaluating the effects of regulatory changes on incidence of deliberate self-harm.

    Michael Eddleston, ScD, FRCP(Edin), FBPhS, FEAPCCT, FRSE, RCPE, Cullen Gold Medalist

    Professor of Clinical Toxicology

    The University of Edinburgh

    My work’s major aim is to reduce deaths from pesticide and plant self-poisoning in rural Asia, a cause of over 200,000 premature deaths each year and a key global means of suicide. To do this, I perform clinical trials in South Asian district hospitals to better understand the pharmacology and effectiveness of antidotes and community-based controlled trials to identify effective public health interventions. This work is complemented by translational studies of antidotes in minipig models of poisoning in a large animal critical care laboratory that I established in Edinburgh, work with sociologists and anthropologists to better under-stand the meaning of self-harm, and work with the WHO and FAO to aid implementation. I work with pesticide regulators through the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention. I also perform clinical and animal research in Edinburgh to improve treatment of other forms of poisoning (such as from cyanide, alcohol, and contrast media) by developing and/or testing novel antidotes.

    Tharwat El Zahran, MD

    Medical Director, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

    American University of Beirut Medical Center

    Dr. Tharwat El Zahran is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Medical director for the emergency department at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC)

    She completed a fellowship training in medical toxicology at Emory University and CDC, and currently co-directs the medical toxicology service at AUBMC.

    Yaron Finkelstein, MD, FACMT

    Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Toxicology

    The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto

    Dr. Finkelstein is a Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto and a Senior Clinician-Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children. 

    He holds the Canada Research Chair in Pediatric Drug Safety and Efficacy (Tier I). Dr. Finkelstein is triple-trained in medical toxicology, clinical pharmacology and pediatric emergency medicine. Since 2016, he has served as a “Thought Leader” for NIH’s Pediatric Trials Network, an alliance of >200 hospitals, working for drug label modifications for children at FDA. He also established and leads the ACMT Pediatric Marijuana & Opioids (PEDMOP) Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC) sub-registries.

    The overarching goal of his research program focuses on optimizing therapeutics and outcomes of sick and injured children in acute care settings and prevention of accidental and intentional drug overdose and subsequent suicide, employing epidemiological, randomized clinical trials and precision tools.

    Michael Holland, MD, FACMT, FEAPCCT, FAACT, FACOEM, FACEP

    Director of Occupational Medicine

    Saratoga Hospital

    Michael Holland is the  Director of Occupational Medicine for the Saratoga Hospital Medical Group, Saratoga Hospital Employee Health Medical Director,  Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY,  Consulting Medical Toxicologist at the Upstate New York Poison Center and at the Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s Office-both in Syracuse, NY, and Principal Medical Toxicologist at the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health (CTEH) in Little Rock, AR.  Dr. Holland has ABMS Board Certifications in Occupational Medicine, Medical Toxicology, Emergency Medicine, and Addiction Medicine.

    Filza Hussain, MD

    Clinical Associate Professor

    Stanford University

    Filza Hussain, MD, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. She attended medical school in Pakistan and completed her residency training at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota and a Consultation Liaison Psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University in New York. Her clinical focus is transplant psychiatry and she serves as the liaison to the Liver and Kidney transplant programs at Stanford. Other areas of clinical/research interests include Personality disorders, Suicidology, Cultural Psychiatry, and medical pedagogy.

    T. Wolfgang Klotz, MD

    Psychiatrist

    United States Navy

    Dr. Klotz received his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California in International Relations, his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and completed his residency in Psychiatry at Naval Medical Center San Diego. He is a member of the Gold Humanism and Alpha Omega Alpha honor societies. He is currently the embedded psychiatric provider for the 5th Marine Regiment in San Clemente California.

    Larissa Laskowski, DO

    Assistant Professor

    NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, Health + Hospitals Bellevue

    Larissa Laskowski is a clinical assistant professor and medical toxicologist at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and serves as a consultant for the New York City Poison Control Center. She is also cofounder and director of The Prevention Education Partnership (PEP), an initiative dedicated to decreasing the incidence of preventable illness and injury commonly seen in the emergency department. Through PEP Talks, a harm-reduction drug education curriculum, she deploys doctors into local schools to educate middle and high school students, teachers, and parents, in an effort to keep NYC youth safe, healthy, and out of the ER. Due to the rapidly evolving threat of teen fentanyl overdose, she is currently laser-focused on ensuring that every student, teacher, and parent knows how to recognize an opioid overdose and save a life by administering naloxone. 

    She currently resides in Manhattan with her husband Mike and two small children Frida and Miles.

    Bruno Megarbane, MD, PhD

    Head of the Department of Medical and Toxicological Critical Care

    Paris Cité University Lariboisière Hospital

    Bruno Mégarbane is Professor of critical care medicine at Paris University and directs a research team at INSERM UMRS-1144. He is the Head of the Department of Medical and Toxicological Critical Care at Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France. He conducted several clinical and experimental studies in clinical toxicology.

    J.J. Rasimas, MD, PhD, FAACT, FACLP, FACMT, FACPsych

    Professor of Psychiatry & Emergency Medicine

    University of Minnesota & Penn State College of Medicine

    Dr. Rasimas attended the University of Scranton and graduated summa cum laude with degrees in biochemistry, mathematics, and philosophy. He completed the Medical Scientist Training Program at Penn State University, earning a Ph.D. in chemical biology (2002) and M.D. (2003). Upon graduation from the Penn State College of Medicine, Dr. Rasimas matriculated to psychiatry residency training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He was a clinical fellow at the NIMH, training in consultation-liaison psychiatry, bioethics, and clinical research. Dr. Rasimas has studied psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Washington School of Psychiatry. He served as a C-L psychiatrist for Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and remains an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine for the Penn State College of Medicine, there. He completed the critical care based medical toxicology fellowship at Penn State, obtained board certification in addiction medicine, and then returned to NIMH to join the Undiagnosed Diseases Program and the Intramural Research Program to oversee clinical trials in mood and anxiety disorders. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and a Laughlin Fellow with membership in the American College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Rasimas is a Professor at the University of Minnesota, pursuing an academic medical career at the interface of psychosomatic medicine, medical toxicology, and psychodynamic psychotherapy with a primary clinical interest in the phenomenology of suicide. His current clinical position is the director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry services for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

    Joshua Schier, MD, MPH

    Chief Medical Officer

    USPHS Commissioned Corps, CDC

    CAPT Joshua G Schier, MD MPH was appointed the 9th Chief Professional Officer of the Medical Category of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service (Corps) in November 2021. As the Chief Medical Officer, CAPT Schier provides leadership and direction for Corps medical officers and advises the Office of the Surgeon General and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on recruitment, assignment, deployment, retention, and career development of Corps physicians. CAPT Schier is currently assigned to the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Division of Overdose Prevention (DOP) as a Senior Medical Officer. At CDC, he serves as a Strategy Lead for CDC’s Overdose Data to Action Program overseeing activities related to linking overdose patients to care and supporting providers and health systems across 66 states, counties, and metropolitan areas. He is the CDC/ATSDR Site Director for the joint Emory/CDC Medical Toxicology Fellowship and serves as a subject matter expert for CDC in Medical Toxicology for informing various activities related to stimulants and other drugs of abuse. CAPT Schier spent 15 years at CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health, where he oversaw national real-time surveillance activities for poisoning events via PCC data, radiation disaster preparedness activities, and provided expert clinical consultation for suspected and known domestic and international mass poisoning incidents. He served two terms on ABEM’s Medical Toxicology Sub-Board and has published more than 75 articles in peer-reviewed journals and CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

    Dominic Sisti, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy

    University of Pennsylvania

    Dominic Sisti, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He directs the Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care and holds secondary appointments in the Department of Psychiatry, where he directs the ethics curriculum in the residency program, and the Department of Philosophy. Dr. Sisti examines ethical and policy challenges in mental health care, including long-term psychiatric care for individuals with serious mental illness and clinical ethics issues in correctional settings. Sisti's research also explores ethical issues in psychedelic research and clinical application.

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  • Contains 1 Component(s) Includes a Live In-Person Event on 03/29/2023 at 12:45 PM (PDT)

    March 29, 2023

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    ACMT is delighted to host the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT), for a half-day symposium at our Spring Meeting! 

    2023 AACT Symposium | DEI in Toxicology: What it Means for Patients and Learners
    Wednesday, March 29, 2023
    San Diego, Marriott La Jolla, San Diego, CA

    Supporting and increasing the diversity, equity and inclusion of members of the toxicology community is paramount. However, so is increasing our knowledge of the diverse patient populations so that we are providing equitable and inclusive care. The first half of the symposium will cover content related to the disabled patient, alternative medicine use, toxicological skin manifestations on darker skin, and hormone toxicities in transgender patients. The second half will focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, in the Medical Toxicology specialty. Join the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT) as we explore this crucial topic together. See agenda for more info!


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    This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team. Continuing Education is pending for this activity. It is expected to be approved for 4.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change. 

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    Agenda

    Talk times and topics are subject to change. All times listed in local, Pacific Time Zone.


    12:45 - 1:00 PM - Opening Remarks


    1:00 - 1:30 PM

    Toxicology in the Disabled Patient: Baclofen Pumps & Muscle Relaxers

    Justin Seltzer, MD, Medical Toxicology Fellow, UC San Diego Division of Medical Toxicology, San Diego, CA


    1:30 - 2:00 PM

    The Culturally Competent Tox History: Assessing for Potential Exposures Associated with Herbal Folk Remedies, Cosmetics, and Ethnic Foods

    Michael Yeh, MD, MS, Medical Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA


    2:00 - 2:30 PM

    Toxicology of Herbal Remedies

    Kevin J. Mercer, PharmD, MPH, Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, HCA Houston Healthcare, Houston, TX


    2:30 - 3:00 PM

    Gender Affirming Care: Hormone Toxicities in the Transgender Patient

    Haylee Veazey, MD, Faculty Physician, Emergency and Internal Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN


    3:00 - 3:15 PM - Break


    3:15 - 3:45 PM

    Toxicology of Medical Abortifacients

    Garry Winkler, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX


    3:45 - 4:15 PM

    Microaggressions: How to be an Ally

    Adam Overberg, PharmD, BCPS, DABAT, Managing Director, Indiana Poison Center, Indianapolis, IN


    4:15 - 4:45 PM

    How to Implement Holistic Review in a Toxicology Fellowship Program

    Jeff Druck, MD, FACEP, Vice Chair of Faculty Advancement, DEI, and Wellbeing for Emergency Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT


    4:45 - 5:15 PM

    Turning Talk Into Action - Future Directions for Tox

    Peter Akpunonu, MD, FAAEM, FFSEM, FACEP Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine & Medical Toxicology, Director, Medical Toxicology, Director, Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine, Director, Radiation Injury Treatment Network, University of Kentucky Hospital, Medical Director, Kentucky Poison Control Center, Louisville KY

    Peter Akpunonu MD, FAAEM, FFSEM, FACEP

    Associate Professor

    University of Kentucky

    Dr Akpunonu is an associate professor of emergency medicine and medical toxicology at the University of Kentucky. His professional interests are CBRNE, novel psychoactive substances and health disaparities in poisoning. He enjoys hands on practical lectures. He has participated in multiple clinical trials and is an active member of MENATOX, ACMT and AAEM Dr Akpunonu is the medical director of the inpatient toxicology consultation service at the University of Kentucky. He also is the medical director of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine service. Dr Akpunonu is also the medical director of the Kentucky Poison Control Center. 

     As an emergency physician and toxicologist, Dr. Akpunonu specializes in the recognition, triage, and management of poisonings and holds a deep interest in the areas of novel psychoactive substances of abuse, envenomations and prescribed patterns.

    Jeffrey Druck, MD, FACEP

    Vice Chair of Faculty Advancement, DEI, and Wellbeing for Emergency Medicine

    University of Utah

    Dr. Druck went to medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, followed by residency at Denver Health.  He currently serves as the Vice Chair of Faculty Advancement, DEI, and Wellbeing for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah, as well as serving on the board of SAEM. His interests include mentorship, wellbeing, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), medical education, and the intersection of education and clinical care. He has been involved in medical education at the undergraduate level, graduate level, and CME level.  From a DEI perspective, he has been involved in DEI efforts on an undergraduate, graduate, and national level.

    Research interests: mentoring, medical education, wellbeing, DEI

    Kevin Mercer, PharmD, MPH

    Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

    Houston Methodist West Hospital

    Dr. Kevin Mercer is originally from Louisville, KY. He received PharmD and MPH degrees from the University of Kentucky and pursued pharmacy residency training at The University of Chicago Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. His professional interests within the realm of emergency medicine include toxicology, cardiac arrest, and global health. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, SCUBA diving, and cooking.

    Adam Overberg, PharmD, BCPS, DABAT

    Managing Director

    Indiana Poison Center

    Adam is the managing director of the Indiana Poison Center. After earning his PharmD from UNC in 2010, he practiced in a variety of settings before finding a home in the world of toxicology and poison centers. He is a Diplomate of ABAT and is active on multiple committees through ABAT, AACT, America’s Poison Centers, and other organizations, and maintains an active precepting schedule for two schools of pharmacy and numerous PGY1 and PGY2 pharmacy residency programs. His interests include acetaminophen poisoning, novel psychoactive substances, and institutional and organizational psychology, but what he loves most of all is spending every minute he can with his "threenager" and wife, collecting and using fountain pens, and watching soccer.

    Justin Seltzer, MD

    Medical Toxicology Fellow

    UC San Diego

    Dr. Justin Seltzer was born and raised in San Diego, CA. He did both his undergraduate studies and medical school at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. He completed residency training in emergency medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. Within toxicology, his interests include pharmaceutical drug toxicity, antidote development and drug repurposing, and hazardous materials such as chemical warfare agents, pesticides, industrial chemicals, and radiation exposure.

    Haylee Veazey, MD

    Physician, Assistant Professor

    Hennepin Healthcare, University of Minnesota School of Medicine

    Haylee Veazey is a faculty physician who is dual board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. She practices at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and is an Assistant Professor in both EM and IM at the University of Minnesota School of medicine. She is the medical director of the Adult Gender and Sexual Health clinic at Hennepin Healthcare and splits her time evenly between Gender and Sexual Health and Emergency Medicine.  She came out of the closet as a trans woman early in her residency and has been active in educating on diversity and gender and sexual health since then.

    Garry Winkler, MD

    Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology

    The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

    Garry Winkler, M.D. is a Board Certified Medical Toxicologist and Emergency Medicine physician based out of Houston, Texas. He is at the University of Texas Health Houston practicing Emergency Medicine and Toxicology and is the Section Chief of Medical Toxicology. Garry serves as the current co-chair for the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology’s (AACT) Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity section.

    He graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2008. After receiving his Medical Degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, he completed his Surgical Internship at Boston Medical Center in Boston, MA. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Arizona Tucson University Campus and received a distinction in Medical Education. He completed his Medical Toxicology fellowship at the University of California San Diego.

    Michael Yeh, MD, MS

    Medical Officer

    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & National Center for Environmental Health

    Michael Yeh, MD, MS, is a medical officer at the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in Atlanta, Georgia, and a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Michael obtained a B.S. in biology from SUNY Stony Brook, an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, as well as an M.S. in epidemiology and M.D. from the University at Buffalo. He completed a combined internal medicine / emergency medicine residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Michael worked as an emergency physician in community hospitals on Long Island and Rhode Island before completing the Emory University/CDC fellowship in medical toxicology in 2021. His current activities at CDC include working with America’s Poison Centers on surveillance of chemical exposures and public health hazards, acute outbreak investigations, emergency preparedness for chemical and radiological disasters, and medical toxicology fellow education.

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    In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and American College of Medial Toxicology. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Amedco Joint Accreditation #4008163.

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  • Contains 2 Component(s)

    1. A 22-year-old, 32-week pregnant woman presents to the ED after an intentional ingestion of an insecticide called "Sniper." Her initial vital signs are: BP, 126/78 mmHg; HR, 96/min; RR, 26/min; T, 98.9F; O2 Sat, 98% (RA). She has increased salivation per the treating physician. 2. A 16-year-old girl presents with a presumed pseudoephedrine overdose. Her vital signs are HR 137, BP 198/158, RR 30, T 36.7. After an observation period of 5 days she has not improved. 3. A 39-year-old man is transferred from a treatment center to the ED for opioid withdrawal and intractable vomiting Several hours after arrival at the treatment center that morning, he developed worsening opioid withdrawal for which he received methadone (30mg) but immediately vomited and became "shaky." His initial vital signs are: BP, 153/95 mmHg; P, 83/min; RR, 22/min; T, 99 F; Sp02, 96%

    1. A 22-year-old, 32-week pregnant woman presents to the ED after an intentional ingestion of an insecticide called "Sniper." Her initial vital signs are: BP, 126/78 mmHg; HR, 96/min; RR, 26/min; T, 98.9F; O2 Sat, 98% (RA). She has increased salivation per the treating physician.
    2. A 16-year-old girl presents with a presumed pseudoephedrine overdose. Her vital signs are HR 137, BP 198/158, RR 30, T 36.7. After an observation period of 5 days she has not improved.
    3. A 39-year-old man is transferred from a treatment center to the ED for opioid withdrawal and intractable vomiting Several hours after arrival at the treatment center that morning, he developed worsening opioid withdrawal for which he received methadone (30mg) but immediately vomited and became "shaky." His initial vital signs are: BP, 153/95 mmHg; P, 83/min; RR, 22/min; T, 99 F; Sp02, 96%

    Series Moderator: Lewis Nelson, MD, FACMT, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ

    About The Series: ACMT's National Case Conference (NCC) is a monthly webinar for ACMT members that features interesting cases seen by medical toxicologists nationwide. NCC is an educational endeavor and a quality improvement effort intended to improve patient care. It is not intended to define standard of care. Attempts have been made to ensure HIPAA compliance. All data and information provided in this activity is for informational purposes only. ACMT makes no representations as to accuracy, completeness, currentness, suitability, or validity of the content and will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use.

    This webinar is for ACMT members only.

  • Contains 2 Component(s)

    This month's articles will be reviewed by the UCSF Medical Toxicology Fellowship Program.

    Presented By: UCSF Medical Toxicology Fellowship Program led by Dr. Zhanna Livshits.

    Articles

    • Yamamoto T, Malavasi E, Archer JRH, Dargan PI, Wood DM. Management of body stuffers presenting to the emergency departments. Eur J Emerg Med 2016;23(6):425-429
    • Bahrami-Motlagh H, Mahboubi-Fooladi Z, Salevatipour B, Hassanian-Moghaddam H, Mirhashemi SH. Comparison of low dose and standard dose abdominal CT scan in body stuffers. Clin Toxicol 2018;56:348-354
    • Hassanian-Moghaddam H, Amraei F, Zamani N. Management recommendations for body stuffers at emergency units. Arh Hig Rada Toksikol 2019;70(2):90-96

    Series Moderator: Steven E. Aks, DO, FACEP, FACMT, Toxikon Consortium

    About The Series: ACMT's National Journal Club (NJC) is a bimonthly member webinar hosted by a different fellowship program each session. All data and information provided in this activity is for informational purposes only. ACMT makes no representations as to accuracy, completeness, currentness, suitability, or validity of the content and will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use.

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