Make Your 2018 Annual Campaign Donation Today!

MTF has funded more than $205,000 in grants and travel awards to Medical Toxicologists. Help us exceed our 2018 Annual Campaign goal of $70,000 in ACMT member donations! Read about award recipients and how they are using MTF funding to advance the field.

Apply Today—2019 ASM Activities for Fellows-in-Training!

• FiT Shark Tank Research Forum: The top proposal will be awarded $1500 to return within 2 years to ASM to present the completed research project.
• FiT Open Mic: Ignite-style presentations on a toxicology topic of the presenters’ choice.

Deadline for all submissions is January 10, 2019. 

2019 Innovative Research and Teaching Awards

Request grant dollars from $5,000—$20,000

ACMT’s Medical Toxicology Foundation anticipates awarding up to a maximum of $20,000 in 2019 to fund one or more innovative projects that support(s) MTF’s mission of advancing research and education in med tox.

Accepting Proposals for NACCT 2019! 

Submit a proposal for fantastic speaking opportunities below at the 2019 North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology (NACCT).

• Pre-Meeting
• Practice Symposium
• Scientific Symposium
• FIT Visiting Professor Lecture

Deadline for all submissions is January 11, 2019.

New ToxIC Collaboration with NDEWS (National Drug Early Warning System) 

The first issue of the NDEWS 'ToxIC Brief' series has been published—authored by 5 ACMT members. This new collaboration will disseminate information to identify emerging drugs and drug trends seen by medical toxicologists during patient consultations and toxicology evaluations.

Why Join AMA? President's Perspective

You can help enhance the specialty of Medical Toxicology and have input on issues of importance to the specialty. We need 50 more ACMT members by year-end to maintain our participation in AMA's Specialty and Service Society. Medical Toxicology needs a formal voice in the 'house of organized medicine.'

Registration Still Open! 

Next week in Dallas, ACMT presents 'Opioids, Toxicology and the Law: Medical-Legal Aspects of the Opioid Epidemic.' There are seats still available for this highly-anticipated seminar! 

New Issue: Journal of Medical Toxicology

Published on Nov. 20, the December issue of JMT features cutting-edge studies from around the world, an eye opening case report on DNP overdose, and a comprehensive review on pharmacotherapy for opioid use disorders.

TWO New Podcasts! 

• Listen to the new 'Tox in Ten: ACMT Highlights' Episode 6 'Dead Men Do Tell Tales – Opioid Related Deaths with Dr. James Gill'
• Listen to the new Fall 2018 JMT Podcast discussing recent JMT articles

ACMT Symposium at Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology Conference 2018

In November, ACMT members Sophie Gosselin, Kathy Kopec, Jeffrey Lai and Anselm Wong presented at 'Toxicology and Technology: Learn, Teach, Treat' in Bali. Read more

Member News

Dr. Leslie Dye took over the CrimeCon Insider community from Nov. 5-16 to drop some serious knowledge about an important but often overlooked aspect of true crime investigations—medical toxicology.