Medical Toxicology in Industry Webinar: One Health: People, Animals and the Environment, Indivisible

S. Eliza Lockwood, MD, FACMT is an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist with a strong commitment to global health. After completing her Medical Toxicology fellowship at NYU in 2006, she returned to Washington University in St. Louis, where she established an ACGME-accredited fellowship in Medical Toxicology. Over the next decade, Dr. Lockwood became deeply engaged in global health and humanitarian efforts. She organized a relief mission to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, founded the Global Health Scholar Track within the Washington University Division of Emergency Medicine, and serves as one of the Global Health Scholars for the Department of Internal Medicine. Recognizing the need for sustainable solutions in global health, particularly around malnutrition and insect-borne diseases—two prevalent public health issues in developing countries—Dr. Lockwood began working as the Medical Affairs Lead for Bayer. In this role, she focuses on leveraging innovative agricultural and chemical technologies to address these critical challenges. Dr. Lockwood has lectured extensively, both nationally and internationally, on a wide array of topics in medical toxicology and global health.

Dr. Sandra James-Yi, DVM, PhD, DABT, DABVT, is a Veterinary Medical Physician and Toxicologist. She is a Diplomat of the American board of Toxicology and the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology. As a toxicologist, Dr. James-Yi is experienced in comparative biomedical science, toxicologic pathology, and systems and environmental toxicology used in solving the challenges of assessing risk, in a matrixed environment, for the protection of human, animal and environmental health. After veterinary school she practiced in Hawaii as an ambulatory, mixed animal practitioner. Upon moving back to the “mainland” she worked for many years in the Chicagoland area as an emergency-critical care practioner and a small and exotic animal veterinary clinician and surgeon. Prior to the arrival of West Nile Virus in the early 2000’s, and with the veterinary community across the country preparing as it moved across the country from the east coast, she helped establish an ad hoc committee in her city to assess and develop a more expansive and effective mosquito abatement program. After seeing the public health results, Dr. James-Yi decided to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences in entomology, acarology, aquatic ecosystems, and integrated pest management for the prevention of vector-borne disease(s).  After completion of her PhD, she obtained post-doctoral training at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Comparative sciences, Systems Toxicology, and Pathobiology; Study Director training at Covance Laboratories in Madison, Wisconsin, for preclinical studies for drug development; and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Masonic Cancer Center, in the Comparative Pathology laboratory. Dr. James-Yi has held faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Veterinary Medicine, and the Virginia Polytechnic  Institute (Virginia Tech), Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia. In each position, she developed the toxicology curricula for professional and graduate students; was involved in collaborative research; and provided public health and extension services. Currently she has been working for industry, primarily  in Global Food Safety, with a focus on ingredient and end product risk assessment, ingredient supply chains, product misuse, and identification and protection of vulnerable populations.