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).

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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 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.