Clinical Toxicology/Drugs of Abuse Committee

	Chair Vanessa Steenkamp Pretoria, South Africa	Contact Us Scientific Committees Clinical Toxicology/DOA Committee
	Vice-Chair Manuela Neuman Toronto, ON, Canada

Background & Purpose of the Committee

To promote and advance the discipline of Clinical Toxicology within the Association by:

• Developing relevant practice guidelines, when appropriate, in particular fields of clinical toxicology and drugs of abuse testing;
• Publishing articles and other professional notes in the field of clinical toxicology and drugs of abuse in the Newsletter and on the web page;
• Assist in the holding of specialist workshops and symposia at the IATDMCT Congresses;
• Developing links and partnerships with other relevant professional societies; and
• Attracting new members to the Association with interests in clinical toxicology and drugs of abuse.

Committee Initiatives for 2016/2017

• Contributions to Compass:
  • Neuman: Alcohol and organ damage – 1st newsletter 2016
  • Touw: A review/tox case – 2nd newsletter 2016
  • Rentsch: TBA – 3rd newsletter 2016
  • Johnson-Davis: TBA – 1st newsletter 2017
  • Franssen: TBA – 2nd newsletter 2017
  • Steenkamp: TBA – 3rd newsletter 2017
  • Kwong and Sun to be asked to provide contributions
• Participate in joint meetings with other Associations:
  • AACC Symposium
  • IATDMCT European regional meeting: Turkey

Committee Initiatives Completed in 2014/2015

• Contributions to Compass (2014)
  • Neuman: Alcohol interactions with drug of use. A therapeutic misadventure.
  • Himes/Huestis: Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry assay for 20 antiretrovirals in meconium.
  • Meyer/Maurer: High-resolution MS (HRMS) in clinical and forensic toxicology and drug metabolism studies.
  • Ketha/Langman: Lessons Learnt at the Clinic- Laboratory Monitoring of Rivaroxaban.
  • Neuman: Report on the 8th Conference of the Romanian Association of Medical Laboratories.
  • McMillin: Report on the 19th Dubai International Pharmacy Conference and Exhibit
• Contributions to Compass (2015)
  • Touw: A severe case of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide intoxication that was successfully treated with a combined treatment with N-Acetylcysteine and haemodialysis, a case report.
  • Neuman: Hangover and Antihangover.
  • Wong: Personalized/Precision/Predictive Medicine and Personalized Justice – A President’s View from 30,000 feet.
  • Johnson-Davis, McMillin, Signorelli: Nicotine Metabolite Testing.
  • Neuman: Report on the Proceedings of the alcohol symposium held in Israel.
• Conference/workshop organizing/hosting (2014)
  • Steenkamp – organizing and scientific committee of World Congress of Pharmacology, Cape Town, South Africa, 13-18 July 2014, in which IATDMCT held a symposium
  • Langman – Clinical and Analytical Issues of New Designer Drugs, Chair/Program Developer, AACC 2014 Annual Meeting, Symposia, Chicago, Illinois, 07/2014 sponsored by the IATDMCT
  • Rentsch – organizing and scientific committee of Annual Assembly of the Swiss Society for Clinical Chemistry, Basel, Switzerland, 29-31 November 2015 Invited lectures
  • McMillin – presented a symposium (pharmacogenetics) and a workshop (detection of neonatal drug exposures) at DUPHAT on behalf of IATDMCT in March, 2014
  • Neuman – IATDMCT- regional symposium, Sibiu Romania 6-8 June, 2014, 5th Balkan Course of Hepatology, Bucharest, Romania, 3 October, 2014: Alcohol and Liver
• Other Activities
  • IATDMCT meeting in Rotterdam (2015)
    • Symposia
      Alcohol and drugs of abuse: a deadly combination: Manuela Neuman
      Toxins and Adverse reactions: Vanessa Steenkamp
    • Workshops
      New designer drugs: Marilyn Heustis
      Developments in paracetamol intoxications: Nick Bateman
      Clinical toxicology and poison information: Frank Jansman
    • Roundtables
      Use of pharmacogenetics in resolution of post-mortem cases: Saeed Jortani
      Controversies in treatment of toxicological cases: Loralie Langman
      Alcohol detection in hair: Pascal Kintz
    • Pre-conference symposium
      Novel psychoactive substances – A toxicological challenge: Hans Maurer
  • Neuman – symposium "Alcohol and the Liver- A new challenge". Israel, January 20, 2015
  • McMillin, Clarke, Marzinke – A survey of Personalized Medicine: the PGx, PK and PD of it All. Symposium held at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) 2015 meeting in Atlanta
  • Various members – talks/posters at IFCC EuromedLab in Paris
  • McMillin – submission of a symposium proposal for the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) 2015 meeting, developed with support from IATDMCT.
  • Activities associated with committee – outside IATDMCT -Refer to annual report on website, submitted earlier in 2015

Additional Committee Resources

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