INTERNATIONAL invited speaker

Dr Sally Bradberry, UK

Sally Bradberry is Director of the Birmingham Unit of the National Poisons Information Service and of the West Midlands Poisons Unit, both based at City Hospital, Birmingham, UK. She is Alcohol Lead for Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, West Midlands, UK. She holds honorary chairs in the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham, UK and the School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, UK and is visiting Professor to the University of South Wales, UK. 

She is a Fellow of the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists and of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicologists and is past President of the Clinical and Translational section of the Society of Toxicology. She has over thirty years’ experience treating poisoned patients, has published widely in the field of clinical toxicology and given some 30 invited international keynote addresses on subjects ranging from metals to methaemoglobinaemia. 

Her post graduate doctorate was in the field of chelation therapy for lead poisoning. She established one of the first hospital based Alcohol Care Teams in the UK which has received national accolade and been cited as a model service for the UK NHS. In the twilight of her career she has a particular interest in improving the management of and outcomes for patients presenting to hospital with alcohol related ill health.