EM Doc and Medical Toxicologist, interested in all things Tox, and improving access to high quality care. Director @toxikonchicago @cookcountyEM
Joined January 2010
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Check out my interview on Inspired to Heal with Dr. Bill Trick: linkedin.com/posts/steven-ak…
Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People nytimes.com/interactive/2025… via @NYTimes
How Medicaid cuts from Congress could affect every Cook County resident - Chicago Sun-Times chicago.suntimes.com/politic…
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Today, CCH celebrates our exceptional residents and fellows. Your hard work and dedication are critical to our mission, and you positively impact the lives of our patients and the communities we serve. We are proud to work with you. #NationalThankAResidentAndFellowDay
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Excited to announce that we received an Emmy nomination for Leave No Doubt
Special thanks to everyone with @NU_StudioN and @NUFBFamily for all their hard work throughout last season, let’s do it again this year!
𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐨𝐨𝐧 👀🍿
Leave No Doubt: A Northwestern Football Story.
A behind the scenes look at the 2023 season, presented by @Wintrust.
The articles are: Pediatric edible cannabis exposures and acute toxicity: 2017 – 2021 bit.ly/3RPxote
Severe outcomes following pediatric cannabis intoxication: a prospective cohort study of an international toxicology surveillance registry. bit.ly/3tMYQQl
Toxic tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) dose in pediatric cannabis edible ingestions. bit.ly/47pIVoR
Increased testing and health care costs for pediatric cannabis exposures. bit.ly/48qLo3F #acmtnjc @acmtmedtox
Dear @acmtmedtox members join us for #acmtnjc Tuesday Jan 9, 2023 for a discussion on pediatric cannabis exposures presented by the Med Tox Program led by Dr. Michele Burns @Harvard_Tox #acmtnjc @acmtmedtox
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➡️bit.ly/statementnalmafene⬅️READ NOW: Joint @acmtmedtox/@AACTinfo statement published in @JMT_tweets + @Clin_Tox : "Nalmefene should not replace naloxone as the primary opioid antidote at this time" 🧵
@toxicologist12 @maryannamirs @LNelsonMD
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Shoutout to our very own Dr. Tarlan Hedayati for winning the National Faculty Teaching Award at #ACEP23 ! She is truly a world class educator that we are so fortunate to have! – at Chicago, IL
I’ve been saying that OTC phenylephrine is junk for decades. Now I feel better. It’s tough being a Drug Curmudgeon. via @NYTimes @poisonreview nytimes.com/2023/09/12/healt…
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I’m super honored to have 2 photos selected as Special Merit Winners in the Baseball category of the World Sports Photography Awards in this year! @WorldSportsPix
Thanks to Andrew Miller and Erik Fisher for a fantastic presentation of hydroxycholoroquine toxicity and mgt. Big take homes are the use of high dose diazepam, epi drips, to expect hypokalemia, and be ready for rebound hyperkalemia post-treatment. @acmtmedtox
Articles: 1/3
Thanks to Tim Erickson from @Harvard_Tox and Rana Biary and Mark Su from @ToxNyu for joining.
Intentional hydroxychloroquine overdose treated with high-dose diazepam: an increasing concern in the COVID-19 pandemic. bit.ly/3rp3Nxi #acmtnjc @acmtmedtox
Treatment of severe chloroquine poisoning. bit.ly/3XJX4tZ (A tox classic paper)
Toxicokinetics of hydroxycholoroquine following massive overdose. bit.ly/3JStRah #acmtnjc @acmtmedtox
Fantastic Rattlesnake Roundup lecture by @CookCountyEM faculty, Rob Feldman, for @toxikonchicago conference. One of these tubes is spiked with a drop of Western Diamondback venom.
Naloxone is superior to nalmefene.
This is step backwards.
Newly approved nalmefene nasal spray lasts for several hours longer than naloxone, which means that difficult-to-treat withdrawal also lasts longer.
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Dr Sarah Berg @sarahberg is the @toxikonchicago Iodine Fellow discussing her element at fellows conference
Join us for the next @acmtmedtox National Journal Club tomorrow at noon Eastern time.
The topic is New Concepts in Caustic Ingestion Management and will be presented by the @ToxNyu program in Medical Toxicology: Dr. Rana Biary and Fellows. #acmtnjc Articles: 1/4
Performance of CT and its reliability for the diagnosis of transmural GI necrosis in a setting of acute ingestion of predominantly strong acid substances in adults. bit.ly/3B3MC5W @acmtmedtox #acmtnjc 3/4
High doses of methylprednisolone in the management of caustic esophageal burns. bit.ly/3LE0rwO @acmtmedtox #acmtnjc 4/4