Kavita Babu, MD, FACMT Board Member (Term 1: 2023-2026)

Biography

Dr. Babu is currently Chief of the Division of Medical Toxicology at the University of Massachusetts. Within this diverse group of ten faculty members, her partners used their toxicology training as the springboard into different academic careers. The team cares for patients, performs intramurally-funded research, deploys community countermeasures to opioid overdose, and grows outstanding residents and fellows. They have a broad portfolio of funding, including the NIH, CDC, NHTSA, and the state of MA.

She also volunteered for the ACMT Education, Medication Safety, and Position Statement Committees, as well as the JMT editorial board. Her toolbox contains grant and contract writing, media relations, budgeting, curriculum development, and conflict resolution.  She envisions herself augmenting ACMT’s role in injury prevention, fostering equity, combating misinformation, and giving fellows and faculty of all stages more tools to make their value apparent to their institutions.