Fellows of the American College of Medical Toxicology (FACMT) 2011 

Nicole Bouchard, MD, FACMT

Dr. Bouchard is works as an Emergency Medicine physician and Medical Toxicologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. She is the Assistant Site Director of the Adult Emergency Department and is the Director of Medical Toxicology. She completed undergraduate medical education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and residency and fellowship training in at Bellevue Hospital Center and the NYU School of Medicine in New York City. She has authored nine textbook chapters and several publications and has presented numerous abstracts at national and international toxicology meetings. Her areas of interest include Alcohol Withdrawal, acute care toxicology and sedation of the agitated patient.

Kirk Cumpston, DO, FACMT

Medical School: Des Moines University, Des Moines, IA 

Residency:  University of Illinois at Chicago, Emergency Medicine

Fellowship: Toxikon Consortium, Cook County Hospital, University of Illinois at Chicago 

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Department of Emergency Medicine

John Curtis, Jr., MD, FACMT

Dr. Curtis is a graduate of Princeton University, Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, as well as the emergency medicine and medical toxicology training programs at Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM) in Philadelphia, where he served as the Associate Director of the Fellowship training program in medical toxicology and a consultant to the Philadelphia Poison Control Center. Dr. Curtis remains an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at DUCOM, and has recently been appointed as Instructor of Medicine at Dartmouth University Medical School. He is currently an attending physician at both Cheshire Medical Center Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire.

Jou-Fang Deng, MD, FACMT

Dr. Deng founded the Clinical Toxicology Program and Poison Center service in Taiwan at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan since 1987. This program offers elective and rotatory training for Emergency Residency training in Toxicological Emergency. It also functions as a center of antidotes preparedness and supply for the whole country of Taiwan. He used to serve the Presidency of the Asia-Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology and also the Presidency of the Asia Society of Toxicology. He has been enjoyed working closely with many member colleagues of AACT and ACMT. He is involved more and more international collaboration activities with colleagues in South-East Asia and Great China area. He is always ready to welcome international colleagues for potential collaboration.

Louise Kao, MD, FACMT

Dr. Kao completed her Emergency Medicine Residency and Medical Toxicology Fellowship at Indiana University in Indianapolis. She serves as the Director of the Medical Toxicology Fellowship and the Director of the Medical Toxicology Resident Rotation. She has been active on several committees within ACMT and is currently serving as organizer of the 2011 ACMT Pre-Meeting Symposium in Washington DC. Her academic activities have included research projects, review articles, case reports, and book chapters. Dr. Kao is an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Thomas Kunisaki, MD, FACMT

Medical School: University of Chicago Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School

Residency: University of Florida Health Science Center, Emergency Medicine

Fellowship: University of Florida Health Science Center / University Medical Center

Current Position: Clinical Associate Professor, University of Florida Health Science Center/ Shands Jacksonville

Ayrn O’Connor, M.D. FACMT

Dr. O’Connor currently serves as the Assistant Fellowship Director at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. She enjoys actively participating in the graduate medical education of medical students, residents and fellows as well as providing clinical care for the patients encountered through a busy admitting and consulting medical toxicology service.  She holds an appointment as Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Arizona -College of Medicine where she is active in providing the pharmacology curriculum to the first, second and third year medical students. Furthermore, she is responsible for the fourth year medical student and resident toxicology elective offered at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center. 

She graduated from Franklin College in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry.  In 2000, she earned her M.D. from Indiana School of Medicine.  She completed her residency and fellowship at Indiana University in Emergency Medicine and Toxicology in 2003 and 2005, respectively.  Dr. O’Connor joined the faculty at Banner Good Samaritan in 2005 as a clinical toxicologist and educator and is board certified in emergency medicine and toxicology. 

James Rhee, MD, FACMT

Dr. Rhee completed his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Science degree from Georgetown prior to matriculating at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.  He joined the University of Chicago Emergency Medicine Residency Program as a resident in 2001. During his final year of training, he served as the Residency Research Chief and additionally was recognized for his research in his final year as recipient of the Resident Research Award. He completed his Medical Toxicology Fellowship at the Toxikon Consortium. He then returned to the University of Chicago as a faculty member in 2006. 

During his time as a faculty member at the University of Chicago, Dr. Rhee founded the University of Chicago Toxicology Service for which he served as its Director. He was also a most dedicated faculty member who worked closely with each of the second-year emergency medicine residents to insure that they have an outstanding educational experience during their toxicology rotation. Dr. Rhee established himself as an accomplished scholar who has given numerous scientific presentations at national meetings, written several papers for publication, has produced chapters and monographs in authoritative textbooks, and engaged many emergency medicine residents in meaningful scholarship.  His teaching skills were recognized when he won the highest award for teaching given by the University of Chicago emergency medicine residents in his very first and second years as a faculty member!

More recently, Dr. Rhee joined the emergency medicine faculty at Loma Linda University in September 2009. He has since established himself as a leader in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Loma Linda University as the Director of Medical Toxicology and as an Associate Program Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency. This year, Dr. Rhee was also recognized by the Loma Linda University Emergency Medicine Residency for his teaching with a Teacher of the Year Award.

Brad Riley, MD, FACMT

Medical School:  University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI

Residency: Grand Rapids Residency Program in Emergency Medicine

Fellowship: Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ

Current Position: Associate Program Director, MERC/MSU Emergency Medicine Residency / Director Toxicology Research, MSU Division of Emergency Medicine, Michigan State University, Grands Rapids, MI

Daniel Rusyniak, MD, FACMT

After studying Chemistry at Villanova University, Dr. Rusyniak earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University. He went on to complete his residency in Emergency Medicine at Indiana University of Medicine.

Dr. Rusyniak is an associate professor of emergency medicine, and pharmacology and toxicology. He is also a NIH funded researcher, a prior medical toxicology fellowship director, and a part of a successful academic clinical toxicology program.

Dr. Rusyniak has been an active member of ACMT since his fellowship. He has served as research chair, and also on the board of the Journal of Medical Toxicology.

Dr. Rusyniak’s interests lie in heavy metal poisonings and “determining the brain regions involved in mediating the sympathetic responses to MDMA.”

Josef Thundiyil, MD, MPH, FACMT

Medical School: Northwestern UniversityResidency: Emergency Medicine – Orlando Regional Medical CenterFellowship: Medical Toxicology – University of California San FranciscoFellowship: Occupational/Environmental Medicine - University of California, San Francisco
Masters in Public Health: University of California, Berkeley
Faculty Positions: Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida Department of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Professor University of Florida School of Medicine, Florida Poison and Information Center 

Dr. Thundiyil is Associate Residency Program Director at Orlando Regional Medical Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine.  He is director of the toxicology curriculum for the Orlando Regional Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency. He also sees toxicology consultations at an outpatient clinic practice. He currently serves as the editor for the ACMT newsletter.

Brandon Wills, DO, FACMT>

Dr. Wills obtained his B.A./M.S. degrees in exercise physiology at the University of Colorado and D.O. degree from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.  He completed an Emergency Medicine residency at Akron General Medical Center and Medical Toxicology fellowship at the Toxikon Consortium of Cook County, Chicago, IL.  After serving on active duty in the Army, he joined the VCU faculty and is the director of the new Medical Toxicology fellowship. Dr. Wills is the Fellowship Director of Medical Toxicology and Associate Medical Director at Virginia Poison Center.

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