Emergency physician/Clinical Toxicologist in Newcastle, New South Wales Australia, consultant to NSW poisons information centre, current president of Toxicology And Poisons Network Australasia (TAPNA). Interested in education revolving around the interphase between poisoning/envenoming and acute care. I have organised and run toxicology courses around Australia and latterly in Sri Lanka as part of their evolving emergency medicine training programme. I have a clinical and research interest in the management of acute behavioural disturbance in the emergency department.