Registration is required for this free webinar
Hosted by the SOT Clinical and Translational Toxicology Specialty Section
Poisoning is a long-neglected issue that results in thousands of unnecessary deaths every year. The burden of deaths is unevenly distributed, with Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) facing the highest burden.
To tackle this challenge in LMIC we have established a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded center titled “Preventing Deaths from Acute Poisoning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries”. This center is an international collaboration that aims to improve the care of acutely poisoned patients, transform global policy, and impact lives through development of new knowledge, diagnostic tests, treatments and capacity. The center is a partnership between academics, community workers, and clinicians from the United Kingdom, India, Sri Lanka, Iran, Australia, Denmark, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Norway, and South Africa.
In this symposium world leading speakers from the NIHR Centre will discuss the challenge of tackling poisoning in resource-limited countries, then do a ‘deep dive’ into the pharmacology and toxicology of 2 specific agents that kill thousands of people in LMICs every year: pesticides and snake bite. The focus will be on therapeutic advances guided by new diagnostic approaches that are scalable and affordable for use in LMICs.
Speakers
Michael Eddleston, PhD, MD, Professor of Clinical Toxicology, University of Edinburgh
Rabbi Chowdhury, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Bangladesh Medical University