invited speakerS
Anjana Silva
Professor Anjana Silva is a toxinologist, involved in both experimental and clinical research on snake envenoming. He graduated MBBS and M.Phil from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and PhD from the Monash University, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh.
Anjana is currently a professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, a rural medical school in Sri Lanka, an adjunct senior research fellow of the Department of Pharmacology of the Monash University, Australia and a Research Associate at the South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration.
Anjana combines experimental and clinical research in investigating the pathophysiology of snake envenoming and the role of antivenom as treatment. He initiated Anuradhapura Snakebite Cohort in 2012, a snakebite cohort based in rural Sri Lanka. It is one of the largest ongoing snakebite cohorts in the world, that has so far recruited over 4700 patients.
Anjana has won multiple international awards for snakebite research and has won the Young investigator Award by EAPCCT in 2015, Outstanding Oral Presentation in 2015 by NACCT in Best oral presentation award by APAMT in 2015 and 2018.
David Wood
Dr David Wood is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Toxicologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s Health Partners and Reader in Clinical Toxicology at King’s College London.
He has a clinical, research and academic interest in the epidemiology and patterns of use of and acute/chronic harms related to established recreational (illicit) drugs, new psychoactive substances (NPS) and misused prescription medicines.
He has established a network of specialist emergency departments centres across Europe through the European Drug Emergencies Network (Euro-DEN) Plus project to gather information on the acute toxicity utilization of health facilities following the use of recreational drugs and NPS and the misuse of prescription medicines.
He is a member of the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) and expert advisor to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (ECMDDA), the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in the area of toxicity related to the use of recreational drugs and NPS.
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