
ACMT Career Achievement Award
The ACMT Career Achievement Award honors an ACMT member who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of medical toxicology. The award is presented annually at ACMT’s Annual Scientific Meeting.
Please see the nomination procedures below and send your nominations today!

B. Zane Horowitz, MD, FACMT
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
“B is for Botulism” – lecture presented at the 2023 ACMT Annual Scientific Meeting
2022

Steven A. Seifert, MD, FAACT, FACMT
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine; Medical Director, New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center
“From There to Here: The Long and Winding Road”
2021

Leslie Boyer, MD, FACMT
Professor Emerita of Pathology, University of Arizona
“Technology & Toxinology: 120 Years of Antivenom in North America”
2020

Erica Liebelt, MD, FACMT
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine; Medical Director, New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center
“Keeping the Lamp of Excellence Burning – Important Lessons a Heart Surgeon and Medical Toxicologists Have Taught Me”
2019

Paul Wax, MD, FACMT
Executive Director, American College of Medical Toxicology
2018

Lewis Nelson, MD, FACMT
Chief, Division of Medical Toxicology; Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
2017

Kenneth Kulig, MD, FACMT
Medical Toxicologist, Toxicology Associates, PLLC
2016

Michael Kosnett, MD, FACMT
Associate Clinical Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine
2015

Fred Henretig, MD, FACMT
Senior Toxicologist, Section of Clinical Toxicology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2014

Milton Tenenbein, MD, FACMT
Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, Children’s Hospital, Winnipeg
2013

Jeffrey Brent, MD, PhD, FACMT
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
2012

Robert S. Hoffman, MD, FACMT
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
2011

William Banner, MD, FACMT
Medical Director, University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy
2010

Kent Olson, MD, FACMT
Medical Director, University of California San Francisco
2009

Steven Marcus, MD
Executive Director; Medical Director, New Jersey Medical School
2008

J. Ward Donovan, MD, FACMT
Chief, Medical Toxicology, Pennsylvania Toxicologists, PC
2007

Steven Curry, MD, FACMT
Department of Medical Toxicology, Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix
2006

Charles Becker, MD, FACMT
Professor, Internal Medicine; Occupational Medicine; and Medical Toxicology, University of California San Francisco
2005

Anthony Temple, MD
2004

Richard Dart, MD, FACMT
Director, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Center
2003

Carol Angle, MD
Adjunct Professor, University of Virginia
2002

Howard Mofenson, MD
2001

Barry Rumack, MD, FACMT
Professor Emeritus, Department of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
2000

Frederick Lovejoy, MD
Associate Physician-in-Chief; Chair for Education, Department of Pediatrics; Deputy Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
1999

William Robertson, MD
Washington Poison Center
1998

Lewis Goldfrank, MD, FACMT
Professor of Emergency Medicine, New York University-Bellevue Hospital
1997

Helmut Redetsky, MD
Next Nomination Deadline: July 17, 2023
Criteria
Any member of the College may nominate himself/herself or another member for this award. The nominee must be an active member of the College; however the peak of activity does not have to be recent. Additional outstanding contributions to the specialty should include one or all of the following; teaching, clinical practice, research, service.
Judgment
Each year the Awards Committee will evaluate the new entries submitted and the previous nominees from the last five years. The recommendations are subject to review by the ACMT Board of Directors. The decision of the Board is final, and the Board reserves the right to make no award if there are no nominees of sufficient merit.
Nomination Procedures
Letters of nomination should offer detailed specific information regarding the nominees contributions to the field of Medical Toxicology.
Send letters to the Awards Committee via email to awards@acmt.net with ‘ACMT Career Achievement Nomination‘ in the subject line.
Award and Presentation
The recipient will be recognized at the ACMT Annual Scientific Meeting. The recipient will have the opportunity to deliver a keynote address on a topic of his/her choice or have one presented in his/her honor.