Emergency medicine and medical toxicology have been the focus of this physician's practice for more than 25 years, encompassing emergency medical care, poison control, toxic exposures, emergency response, emergency medical services (EMS), and urgent care. His expertise includes the evaluation and management of poisoned patients, toxic alcohols, drugs of abuse, caustic ingestions, environmental and occupational toxic exposures, emergency department operations, and acute medical emergencies. He also has more than 10 years of expert witness experience providing consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony involving emergency medicine, poison control, toxicology, and medical negligence.

His professional experience includes serving as Medical Director, Staff Physician, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Professor, Attending Physician, Consultant to a Regional Poison Control Center, and Director of Undergraduate Emergency Medicine Education for academic medical centers, urgent care organizations, and regional poison control services. Throughout his career, he has provided emergency medical care, supervised emergency department operations, managed patients with toxic exposures and poisonings, and contributed to emergency medicine education and curriculum development. His work has also included medical toxicology consultation, emergency response planning, telemedicine initiatives, emergency department leadership, and the education of medical students, residents, and healthcare professionals in emergency medicine and toxicology. He earned a Doctor of Medicine degree following a Bachelor of Science degree and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine and fellowship training in Medical Toxicology. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine with subspecialty certification in Medical Toxicology, is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP), and holds certifications in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS). His professional affiliations include the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and the American College of Medical Toxicology. In addition, he has authored peer-reviewed publications, textbook chapters, and educational materials on emergency medicine, poison control, toxicology, envenomation, toxic ingestions, emergency care, and forensic toxicology, and has served on the ACEP Medical-Legal Committee.