SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS

Protecting the Children: Paediatric Hazards and Prevention Efforts in the United States

Hosted by AACT & ACMT

Do Medical Toxicologists Improve Outcomes of Severely Poisoned Patients?

Prof Paul Wax, Paediatrics, UT Southwestern School of Medicine, USA

Measuring the Public Health Impact of Innovative Solutions to Prevent Paediatric Exposures in the United States

Dr Jody Green, Uprise Health/inflexxion, USA

Pediatric Exposures in the National Poison Data System

Dr Alvin C. Bronstein, America’s Poison Center, USA

Dr. Paul Wax is the Executive Director of the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) and a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Dr Wax received his B.A from Dartmouth College, his M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, and completed an Emergency Medicine residency at UCLA, and a Medical Toxicology fellowship at New York University. Dr. Wax has led national efforts to advance medical toxicology practice, education, and surveillance. In 2019 Dr. Wax received the Career Achievement Award in Medical Toxicology from the American College of Medical Toxicology. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and since 2009 he has served as the Co-Principal Investigator of the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC), a multicenter network that conducts prospective surveillance and research on emerging drug trends, poisonings, overdose management, and envenomations.

Dr. Green is Chief Scientific Officer for Uprise Health, a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, and a member of the Prevention of Overdoses and Treatment Errors in Children Taskforce (PROTECT) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an assembly of experts to develop strategies to keep children safe from unintentional medication overdoses. Dr. Green has 20+ years of research experience aimed to advance public health and patient safety, authoring nearly 100 manuscripts, including co-authorship of the Annual Report of the National Poison Data System (2006-2010). Dr. Green received her doctorate in applied statistics and research methods from the University of Northern Colorado in 2000. Prior to joining Uprise Health she was Director of Research at the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, where she was principal investigator on 40+ studies ranging from clinical trials to observational studies, primarily focused on pharmaceutical and consumer product safety.

Biography not yet provided.

Menatox

Hosted by Menatox

Toxic Seas: Marine envenomation and contamination

Dr Abdullatif Aloumi, Director of Kuwait Poison Center, Kuwait

Challenging snake and scorpion envenomation cases from the Region

Dr Badria Alhatali, Oman Poison Control Center, Oman

Drug-induced acute dystonia from abuse in adolescents and young adults

A/Prof Rittirak Othong, Faculty Of Medicine Vajira Hospital, Thailand

Director, Kuwait Poison Control Center

Director, Emergency Toxicology Diploma

Attending, Emergency Department, Al-Amiri Hospital

Faculty, Kuwait Board of Emergency Medicine

Ministry of Health, Kuwait

Biography not yet provided.

What do we do next? A collection of legal and ethically challenging cases from Australasia

Hosted by TAPNA

Expert Panel

Dr Katrine Del Ville, Health Law Research, Australia

Dr Melanie Jansen, Staff Specialist at Children's Health, Australia

Dr Roger O'Gorman, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia

Biography not yet provided.

Session Facilitators

Dr Michael Downes, Hunter Area Toxicology Service, Australia

Dr Kylie McArdle, Calvary Mater Newcastle, Australia

Dr Kerry Hoggett, South-East Toxicology Service/Royal Perth Hospital & WA Poisons Information Centre, Australia

Dr Michael Downes is an Emergency physician and Clinical toxicologist with the Hunter Area Toxicology Service (HATS) in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He is also a consultant to the New South Wales Poisons information centre.

His academic activities include a number of publications in peer reviewed journals as well as active participation in the peer review process. He has a keen interest in education at all levels and is a tutor on the TAPNA www.tapna.org.au postgraduate toxicology course. He has run a number of toxicology workshops, incorporating simulation and other techniques, in Sri Lanka under the banner of the Sri Lankan college of Emergency Physicians.

He is a current, financial member of APAMT and has contributed to previous TAPNA Inc. Symposia at APAMT meetings in 2019, 2023 and 2024.

Biography not yet provided.

EAPCCT Symposium

Hosted by EAPCCT

The invaluable blood gas - can we trust it? A critical look at the accuracy of important parameters

Prof Knut Erik Hovda, Oslo University Hospital & University Of Oslo, Norway

Issues with the Vaping of Recreational Drugs and New Psychoactive Substances

Prof David Wood, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Can poison centres inform safer prescribing: the UK problem of propranolol poisoning

Mr Pardeep Jagpal, National Poisons Information Service, United Kingdom

Senior consultant at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Denmark. Specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine. Responsible for the guidelines and handling of pharmaceutical poisonings at the Danish Poisons Information situated in Copenhagen. His clinical research is focusing on the use of antidotes in patients with cardiovascular symptoms and extracorporeal removal.

Professor David Wood is a Professor of Clinical Toxicology and Consultant Physician at the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s Health Partners and King’s College London in London, UK. He has a research and academic interest in the epidemiology of use of and harms related to recreational drugs, new psychoactive substances and misused prescription medicines. He is a member of the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and is an expert advisor to the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA), World Health Organisation and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in related to recreational drugs and NPS.

Pardeep Jagpal has a scientific background in medical biochemistry and toxicology. He started working at the Poison Centre in Birmingham, UK in 2010 as a Specialist in Poisons Information and was appointed as manager of the Poison Centre in 2019. Pardeep is currently General Secretary of the European Association of Poison Centres and Clinical Toxicologists.

Challenges and Opportunities in Poison Centre Development

Hosted by NIHR

Bridging the Gaps: The Challenges and Future of Poison Centres in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ms Carine Marks, Stellenbosch University, Africa

Off the beaten track – the unique services from the Malaysia Poison Centre

Dr Nur Azzalia Kamaruzaman, Malaysia National Poison Centre, Malaysia

A Legacy of Resilience: 60 Years of Challenges and Lessons Learned by the New Zealand Poisons Centre

Ms Lucy Shieffelbien, NZ National Poison Centre, New Zealand

Pushing boundaries – Hong Kong Poison Control Centre

Dr Man Li TSE, Hong Kong Poison Control Centre, Hong Kong

Carine Marks is an internationally recognised expert in medical toxicology and poison centre development, with over two decades of experience in the field. She serves as Director of the Tygerberg Poison Information Centre at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Carine holds multiple postgraduate qualifications, including an MSc in Medical Science (Toxicology) and an MPhil in Health Professions Education, and is currently pursuing a PhD focused on poison centre development and medical toxicology in Africa.

Her work is deeply rooted in capacity building for Poison Information Centres, particularly across low- and middle-income countries. As Co-Lead of Work Package 5 in the NIHR RIGHT4 initiative, she is leading efforts to reduce poisoning-related mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Carine works closely with the World Health Organization and regional partners to support the development and sustainability of poison centres, advocating for locally driven, contextually appropriate toxicology services across the continent.

Dr. Nur Azzalia Kamaruzaman is currently the Director of the Malaysia National Poison Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biotechnology (majoring in Drug Design and Development), with First Class Honours from the University of Queensland, Australia. She later earned her PhD in anticancer and genotoxicity studies from USM. Her expertise in Genotoxicity and Toxicology paved the way for her research interests which are epidemiology and the various dimensions of toxicology, particularly environmental toxicology, poisoning, and the impact of toxic substances on public health

As an academic at USM, she is active in research, teaching, student supervision, publications, industrial and community engagements and a holder of various national and international grants. She is also a recipient of many national and international awards for innovation and science communication involving cancer research. She is also a member of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology (APAMT) and the Young Scientists Network – Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) as well as an Editor-in-Chief for in-house publication of PenawaRacun (Remedy to Poison) Magazine. In 2022, she was only one out of six young Malaysian scientists who were selected to attend the prestigious 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, held at Lindau, Germany.

Biography not yet provided.

Dr Man-Li TSE is a member of the Governance and Advisory Board and a Methodology Lead of the NIHR RIGHT4 research project (https://cardiovascular-science.ed.ac.uk/nihr-acute-poisoning/about). In the project, experts from many disciplines and from around the world closely collaborate under a single objective: Preventing Deaths from Acute Poisoning in Low- and Middle-income Countries. The project is funded by the United Kingdom National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) in supporting works across 6 main themes. One of them (Work Package 5) being Increasing capacity of Poison Information Centres and Operationalising WHO guidelines which is led by Ms Carine Marks and Dr Euan Sandilands.

Dr TSE is a clinical toxicologist and emergency physician. He is the Chairman of the Board of Clinical Toxicology under the Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine. He has been co-leading with his peers in the development of poison control service in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China for more than 2 decades. He was the first medical consultant of the Hong Kong Poison Information Centre since 2008 and later served as the founding Medical Director of Hong Kong Poison Control Centre from 2023-2025. His Centre consists of 3 core clinical units and 3 sub-centres that is providing multi-dimensional service encompassing poison information, laboratory, medical treatment, drug-of-abuse surveillance, herb-drug safety, antidote management, training etc.

Dr Tse has long-standing contribution to the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology and had served as its President from 2021-2022.

SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS

Protecting the Children: Paediatric Hazards and Prevention Efforts in the United States

Menatox

What do we do next? A collection of legal and ethically challenging cases from Australasia

Expert Panel

Session Facilitators

EAPCCT Symposium

Challenges and Opportunities in Poison Centre Development

APAMT Conference Secretariat