PEHSU Grand Rounds Webinar

Associate Professor Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology

Emory University

PEHSU Region 4

 

Core Consultant in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley

PEHSU Region 9

 

Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University

Medical Director GA Poison Center

PEHSU Region 4

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Disclaimers

This material was supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and funded (in part) by the cooperative agreement FAIN: U61TS000237 along with the American College of Medical Toxicology and funded (in part) by the cooperative agreement FAIN: U61TS000238 from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).

Acknowledgement: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports the PEHSU by providing partial funding to ATSDR under Inter-Agency Agreement number DW-75-95877701. Neither EPA nor ATSDR endorse the purchase of any commercial products or services mentioned in PEHSU publications.

 

 

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Speaker/Panel Bios

 

Ziad Kazzi, MD

Born in 1975 and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Dr. Kazzi trained in Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta (2000-03) where he served as a chief resident before completing a subspecialty fellowship in Medical Toxicology at Emory University, Georgia Poison Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology. Dr. Kazzi joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) between 2005 and 2008 where he served as a Medical Toxicologist for the Regional Poison Control Center in Birmingham and the Alabama Poison Center. Currently, he is an associate professor at the department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia as well as the director of the International Toxicology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at Emory University.

He is also the assistant medical director of the Georgia Poison Center and a medical toxicologist at the Radiation Studies Branch of the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC where he participates in emergency preparedness and response activities in radiation.

As an emergency physician and toxicologist, Dr. Kazzi specializes in the recognition, triage, and management of poisonings and holds a deep interest in the areas of Radiation and International Toxicology. Over the past decade, he became involved in clinical toxicology activities globally that range from education to injury prevention and clinical consultation in the MENA region, Georgia and India. He holds an adjunct appointment at the American University of Beirut and directs its Clinical Toxicology services.  He is an active and founding board member of the Middle East North Africa Clinical Toxicology Association and currently serves as its President. He is also a board member of the Medical Toxicology Foundation and the American College of Medical Toxicology in which he chairs the International Committee and the Clerkship Council on Medical Toxicology of the American College of Medical Toxicology.

 

Robert J. Geller, MD

Dr. Geller has served as the medical director of a poison center for more than 32 years, the last 29+ of which have been as Medical Director of the Georgia Poison Center. He has also been a member of the Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit since its inception in 2000, and has served as its Director for more than 10 years. His publications include a focus on triage after poisoning and disaster preparedness and mitigation. He is the lead author of the PEHSU/ AAP monograph on Safe Return Home after Environmental Disaster, as well as the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is board certified in Pediatrics, Medical Toxicology, and Clinical Informatics.