Dr. Andrea Carlson is an attending physician in Emergency Medicine at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, IL, where she has served the patients of Chicago's South Side for 25 years.  She is also the Director of Medical Toxicology, and the Associate Program Director of the Advocate Christ Emergency Medicine Residency.  Her primary academic interests lie in toxicology education and critical care toxicology.

Dr. Carstairs earned his undergraduate degree from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA and received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), the nation's military medical school.  He completed a residency in emergency medicine at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego and a fellowship in medical toxicology at the University of California, San Diego.  He served more than 25 years on active duty in the U.S. Navy, which included a combat deployment to Iraq and shipboard deployment as the leader of a mobile trauma team for the Navy’s Pacific Fleet. He retired from the Navy as a Captain in 2019. He currently serves as a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine & Division of Medical Toxicology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In addition to his role at UCSD, he holds an appointment as Professor of Military & Emergency Medicine at USU.

Bram Dolcourt is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University and serves as Associate Residency Director for Emergency Medicine at Sinai Grace Hospital in Detroit. Dr. Dolcourt is a Clinical Consultant to the Michigan Poison and Drug Information Center. Dr Dolcourt complete Medical School at New York Medical College and residency at Henry Ford Hospital. Dr. Dolcourt then went on to complete fellowship in Medical Toxicology at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr. Dolcourt’s interests include inpatient addiction medicine and heavy metal exposures.

Dr. Haynes completed training in a combined emergency medicine-internal medicine program in 2014, and a toxicology fellowship at UTSW in 2016. She has been treating substance use disorders as part of her practice since that time and is board certified in addition medicine. She currently works for the VA at the Robert J Dole Veterans Medical Center in Wichita, KS, treating patients in a residential treatment center, as well as clinic, and performing bedside consults.

Dr Fiona Garlich Horner is the Head of Medical Toxicology at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC+USC) Medical Center, and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. She is a graduate of Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After completing a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at New York University and the New York City Poison Control Center, she served as an attending emergency physician and medical toxicologist with the Poison and Drug Information Service (PADIS) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

Dr. Garlich is now an attending emergency physician and medical toxicologist at LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, one of the largest and busiest public hospitals in the United States. She is the director of the inpatient toxicology consultation service and the resident toxicology rotation, as well as the chair of the hospital’s medication safety committee. Her primary academic interests lie in toxicology education and advancing the care of vulnerable and incarcerated populations.

Dr. King is an Emergency medicine physician, Medical Toxicologist and Addiction Medicine specialist at the Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University. He works as an emergency physician at Sinai Grace and Detroit Receiving Hospitals. He additionally works at the Tolan Park Research Center where he sees patients with substance use disorders. He is the interim director of the Michigan Poison and Drug Information Center and the Fellowship Director of the Medical Toxicology Fellowship. He is excited to be an organizer and presenter at the Total Tox Course!

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.

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.

Dr McKinney graduated in 1971 from the University of California San Diego, Revelle College with a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA), Biology major, Spanish Literature minor. 

In 1978 he graduated from UCSF School of Pharmacy with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree (PharmD), and was recruited to be a founding staff member of the San Francisco Poison Center, where he worked until 1992.

In 1992 he passed the Boards to become a Diplomate of the American Board of Applied Toxicology DABAT), and was hired as a Clinical Pharmacist in Critical Care at Univ Calif Davis Medical Center in Sacramento California (UCDMC).

In 2018 he was approved as a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (FAACT), and retired from UCDMC. He continues his work as Secretary-Treasurer of ABAT and NAST (North American Society of Toxincology), as well as his love of herpetology, hiking, photography, videography and music.

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).

Dr. Schwarz attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, before completing a residency in Emergency Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri.  After residency, he completed a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine in Dallas, Texas, before returning to Missouri where he was an Advisory Dean and the Medical Toxicology Division Chief and Fellowship Director at Washington University. In 2023, he took a position in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for ACMT.

Donna Seger, MD, retired in December 2021 after working for 33 years at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Tennessee Poison Center (TPC). Dr. Seger began her career at VUMC in 1988 in the Department of Emergency Medicine, becoming professor of Clinical Medicine and Emergency Medicine. She served as medical and executive director of the Tennessee Poison Center from 1990-2021. Seger received her undergraduate and medical degrees from University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. She completed her residency in emergency medicine and a fellowship in toxicology at the University of Cincinnati. Seger taught toxicology courses at Vanderbilt and developed consulting services and toxicology rotations for emergency medicine and pediatric residents and fellows and pediatric emergency medicine fellows. She was the first female president of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT) and received its Career Achievement Award and Distinguished Service Award for her achievements in the field of toxicology. While retired from active clinical practice, she plans to remain active in the toxicology community.

Stephen P. Wood is an acute care nurse practitioner and director of advanced practice providers in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. Prior to this he spent 11 years practicing as a nurse practitioner in emergency medicine. His roots are in EMS and he has over 30 years of field experience, including 10 as a flight paramedic. He is an instructor in the School of Nursing at Northeastern University in the graduate nursing program and is a graduate scholar of the Harvard Macy Institute program for Healthcare Educators. He is a former fellow in Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a current visiting researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center at the Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center for Health Policy.  He holds a Master of Science in Nursing as well as a Master of Science in Toxicology. He is the Director of Field Operations for World Extreme Medicine USA and host of the WEM podcast.