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Brenna Farmer, MD, MBA, FACMT, is Chief of Emergency Medicine at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Read fill bio>>

Dr. Beauchamp is Vice Chair for Education & Community Engagement, and core faculty for the Emergency Medicine Residency and Medical Toxicology Fellowship at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania. She is an associate professor at University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and adjunct clinical associate professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University.

Dr. Marsha Ford, now retired, has had a long and distinguished career during which she held many progressive roles over 30 years with the Carolinas Healthcare System and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She also spent many years with the Carolinas Poison Center and served as its Director for 17 years. Read full bio>>

Dr. Lewis Nelson serves as the Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ where he is also the Chief of the Division of Medical Toxicology. He provides direct clinical care to patients in the emergency department and serves as a senior consultant to the New Jersey Poison Information & Education System (NJPIES). Read full bio>>

Dr. Yin currently serves as the medical director of the Cincinnati Poison Drug and Information Center where he has been since 2010. He is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine and also works clinically as a pediatric emergency medicine attending at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Holland is currently the Director of Occupational Medicine for the Saratoga Hospital Medical Group, Saratoga Hospital Employee Health Medical Director, Employee Health Medical Director at Glens Falls Hospital in Glens Falls, NY. Dr. Holland is as a Professor of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, and faculty member of the Medical Toxicology Fellowship Training Program and Consulting Medical Toxicologist at the Upstate New York Poison Center.  

Dr. Thompson is a tenured professor of emergency medicine and medical toxicology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine where he is the head of the Division of Medical Toxicology within the Department of Emergency Medicine. Read full bio>>

Following her fellowship, Dr. Kopec worked at Duke University for two years before moving to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC, where she has been since 2015. She is currently a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center and the Director of the Medical Toxicology Division at her institution. Dr. Kopec is also the medical toxicology rotation director for medical students, residents, and fellows at CMC. Dr. Kopec is actively involved with her hospital's medical toxicology fellowship program and inpatient medical toxicology consultation service.

Dr. Hendrickson is currently the Medical Director of the Oregon/Guam Poison Center and the fellowship director of the Medical Toxicology Fellowship, a medical toxicologist, and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University/Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Spyres is currently Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Arizona—Phoenix as well as faculty in the Department of Medical Toxicology at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix. She serves as Medical Director for the Banner Poison and Drug Information Center in Phoenix, Arizona.