A medical toxicologist focuses on the diagnosis, management, and prevention of poisoning and other adverse health effects due to medications, occupational and environmental toxins, and biological agents.

Medical Toxicology is an approved subspecialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Public Health and General Preventive Medicine is an approved specialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Physicians practicing public health and preventive medicine receive advanced training in epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, human health behaviors, and the organization of health care systems.

Daniel L. Sudakin, MD, MPH, provides consulting services in Medical Toxicology and Preventive Medicine.

Areas of specific expertise include:

• Epidemiology (causation and prevention of illness and disease)
• Occupational and environmental epidemiology (including solvents, gases, pesticides, heavy metals, mycotoxins, bioaerosols)
• Pharmaceutical Toxicology (including adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, drugs of abuse, dietary supplements)