The Duke Toxicology Program provides toxicological assessments of consumer and commercial products necessary to comply with federal and state laws concerning labeling and worker hazard communication. Our program maintains a database on over 1500 toxic chemicals that is used to provide risk assessments necessary for its various products and services. This risk assessment system allows the Toxicology Program to conduct cost effective evaluations of complex products.

 

Specific services offered by the Toxicology Program include:

 

The Toxic Emergency Consulting Service provides assistance 24 hours a day concerning occupational and environmental emergencies. Our physicians consult with the staffs of hospital Emergency Rooms and Poison Control Centers regarding the investigation and treatment of occupational or product-specific environmental exposures.

 

 

• MD, Harvard University, 1969
• Internal Medicine, Duke and Indiana University Medical Centers, 1969-73
• MSPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980

• Occupational toxicology
• Industrial hygiene
• Occupational diseases of the lung, kidney, and nervous system
• Pregnant worker issues
• Occupational exposures to heavy metals
• Occupational exposures to welding fumes
• Asbestos
• Formaldehyde
• Toxicology of art materials