Edward M. Bottei, MD, FCCP, is currently the full-time medical director of the Iowa Statewide Poison Control Center.  Dr. Bottei graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B. S. in Pre-Professional Studies and from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine with a Medical Doctorate.  He then completed both an Internal Medicine residency and a Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the University of Chicago before completing a Medical Toxicology and Hyperbaric Medicine fellowship at the University of Cincinnati.  Dr. Bottei then moved to Charleston, WV, to assume the duties as the medical director of the West Virginia Poison Center and serve as a pulmonary and critical care attending for the University of West Virginia.

Dr. Bottei moved Sioux City, IA,  in 2002 to serve as the medical director of the Iowa Statewid Poison Control Center.  In addition to his lengthy list of duties for the poison center, Dr. Bottei is also the State Medical Toxicologist for the Iowa Department of Public Health.  Dr. Bottei has been appointed a Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Colleges of Medicine (departments of internal medicine, pediatrics and emergency medicine), Public Health and Pharmacy at the University of Iowa.

He is currently board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine and medical toxicology.  Dr. Bottei has also received extensive training in biological, chemical and radiological incidents and casualties; hazardous materials incidents; and all aspects of the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

Edward W Boyer MD PhD is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He received his doctorate in synthetic organic chemistry at Columbia University in 1987; after completing a NIH postdoctoral fellowship in protein design at The Rockefeller University, he worked as a patent agent in the intellectual property law firm of Fish & Neave in NYC. Dr Boyer attended Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons before completing a residency in emergency medicine and subspecialty training in medical toxicology at Children’s Hospital Boston. Currently, Dr Boyer is Chief of the Division of Medical Toxicology at UMass-Memorial Medical Center, an academic group of 20 physicians, pharmacists, and research staff. Dr Boyer has been principal investigator of four NIH grants including three human subjects investigations related to substance abuse and has fostered six clinician-scientists to NIH funding. Dr Boyer has been invited to serve on expert panels convened by Rand Corporation, CDC, NIDA, and SAMHSA; he has also served as a reviewer for NIH, FDA, and CDC scientific review groups. As Secretary of the ACEP Research Committee, he is the liaison of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The author of over 40 papers in the peer-reviewed medical literature, Dr Boyer’s publications have appeared in New England Journal of Medicine, Addiction, Pediatrics, Alcohol, and Archives of Internal Medicine, among others.

Mark B. Mycyk, MD
Born: Chicago, IL
College: Harvard College (degree: English Literature)
Med School: University of Illinois (degree: MD)
Residency: Boston City Hospital/Boston Medical Center (Emergency Medicine)
Fellowship: Cook County Hospital/Toxikon Consortium (Toxicology)
Faculty positions: Northwestern University 2002-2007 (Director of
Clinical Toxicology and Toxicological Research); Boston University
2008-present (Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of
Resident and Student Research)
Associate Editor of Academic Emergency Medicine 2005-present
Host of Chicago Toxcast (free podcast available in iTunes Store)

Roy Purssell is the Medical Director of the Drug and Poison Information Center of British Columbia. He is an Associate Professor and is the Acting Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of BC. He is an attending Emergency Physician at Vancouver General Hospital. Roy Purssell received his MD from the University of British Columbia and his Fellowship in Emergency Medicine from McGill University. He completed training in medical toxicology under the practice eligible route at the Drug and Poison Information Center of British Columbia, the Poison and Drug Information Service of Alberta, the Rocky Mountain Poison Center and the San Francisco Poison Center. He was the Chairman of the Toxicology Section of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians from 1996 to 2004.  He was the chairman of a committee that developed a two day CME course for Emergency Physicians, The Toxicology Roadshow. He has taught this course at many locations across Canada. Roy Purssell has been President of the Canadian Association of Poison Control Centers from 2003 to the present. His research interests are in the areas of impaired driving, laboratory testing and adverse drug reactions.

I was born in Tehran, the capital of Iran in 1971. I was entered in program in medicine in 1990 and got my M.D. degree from Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in 1996. Then I was accepted in Postgraduate program in Toxicology and graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Toxicology from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2004.

I started my academic status as Assistant Professor in Department of Internal Medicine in Faculty of Medicine, in Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in 2004. Since 2006, I have been the Head of Intensive Care Unit, the Head of Drug and Poison Information Service, and Vice Chancellor in Education of Loghman-Hakim Hospital Poison Center, in Faculty of Medicine in Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.

I have been selected as a representative resident in Loghman-Hakim Hospital, in Faculty of Medicine, in Shaheed-Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in 2003, and also I have been elected as a representative physician from Iranian Society of Toxicology (INTOX) by Medical Council I.R. Iran in 2004.
I was awarded a fellowship in Ninth IUTOX Summer School on Risk Assessment of Chemicals (RASS-IX) in 2002 and another fellowship in Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS), Provider and Instructor Course in 2006.

As an academic, I have supervised more than 25 M.D., residency and Ph.D. thesis.

My research includes the study of mechanism of pesticide toxicity and its biomarkers in animal models and evaluation of its poisoning in humans. The outcome of my research has been publishing of about 30 papers and more than 50 presentations in different congresses. I have been author of two Farsi (Persian) books in toxicology.

Since the research had not been well developed in clinical aspect of poisoning in our hospital and university, university and ministry of health approved establishment of a research development and a research center. I have been one of the Founding members of Toxicology Research Center in Loghman-Hakim Hospital Poisoning Center, and also I am one of the members of the Research Developing Center of Loghman-Hakim Hospital Poison Center. I am also an academic consultant in clinical toxicology in  the Drug and Poison Information Center (DPIC), Undersecretary of Food and Drug Affairs, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, and in Legal issues related to Poisoning and Overdoses in Medical Council of Iran. I am the reviewers of 1 world-known specialty journals, Journal of Medical Toxicology.

I am also the Secretary-Trustee of Iranian Society of Toxicology since 2005, and the member of National Examination and Evaluation Board of Toxicology, Ministry of Health. I also have the membership of American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT), American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT), and Medichem, Occupational and Environmental Health in the Production and Use of Chemicals.

Involving in establishing of Drug & Poison Information Center (DPIC) and Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) Clinic of Loghman-Hakim Hospital Poison Center is one of my honors.

Dr. Richard Tovar is a consultant to the Wisconsin Poison center and has special interests in clinical forensic toxicology and chemical weapons of mass destruction. Dr. Tovar has authored several medical articles in these areas. Dr. Tovar serves as a clinical assistant professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He also continues in has practice of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology. He serves as a special consultant to local, state, and federal law enforcement. Dr. Tovar continues to promote medical toxicology to both the legal and law enforcement communities.