Medical Toxicology

Critical Evaluations that Make a Difference On-Site and in the Courtroom

CTEH Medical Toxicologists are physicians specially trained in the evaluation and treatment of individuals with toxic exposures. They are involved in the comprehensive high-level care of people affected by drugs, substances, chemicals, biologicals, or other agents that pose a threat to their health and well-being.

Our broad range of medical toxicology expertise includes:

• Health effects of chemical or gas exposures.
• Addiction Medicine: drug and alcohol intoxication; impairment issues in the workplace or in motor vehicle incidents.
• Serving as Radiation Health Medical Officer and worker exposure monitoring, including health effects of radiation exposures.
• Serving as expert witnesses in courts on drug and alcohol impairment and general chemical exposures.
• Post-mortem toxicology reviews regarding cause of death and/or impairment.
• Serving as medical toxicology consultants to the Medical Examiner’s Office.
• Undersea and hyperbaric medicine consultations for marine incidents.