Program Director: Michael Greenberg, M.D.,MPH
Program Coordinator: Mary P. Baxter 

Overview of the Fellowship Program

The Division of Medical Toxicology is one of the major clinical and teaching divisions within the Department of Emergency Medicine. As such, members of this division carry out over 1000 bedside patient consultations annually. These consultations generally involve our core teaching hospitals (Hahnemann, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia, and Fitzgerald-Mercy Hospital) although we regularly provide consultation for patients regionally, nationally, and internationally.

The Medical Toxicology Fellowship Training Program is the only such training program in the City of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. In addition the program has been approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The program is configured to include a total of four (4) fellows. We are able to consider applications from physicians who anticipate completion of residency training in emergency medicine, occupational medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.

The mission for this postgraduate training program is to educate clinical toxicologists with a broad experience in medical, occupational, environmental and forensic toxicology. Graduates of this program will be prepared to sit for the current certifying examination in medical toxicology and to serve as clinical toxicologists in community, university, corporate, and government settings.

Members of the Division of Medical Toxicology serve as clinical consultants for the Philadelphia Poison Control Center and as envenomation consultants for the Philadelphia Zoo. In addition, members of the division have served as consultants to federal and local government as well as industry and the legal community with regard to issues involving medical, occupational, environmental, hazardous material and forensic toxicology.

Recent graduates of our fellowship program have gone on to serve as community based medical toxicologists, university based medical toxicologists and have served in the Epidemiology Investigative Service of CDC/NIOSH. The division has hosted visiting fellows from Thailand and India.

For more information regarding the Medical Toxicology Fellowship Training Program please contact the Division Chief, Michael I. Greenberg, M.D., MPH at mgreenbe@drexelmed.edu.