Abstracts and biographies for the speakers will be placed here as they are provided from the speakers.

Keynote Speakers

Professor Allan Jaffe

Allan is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his house staff and Cardiology training at Washington University and continued there for 22 years rising to the rank of Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Coronary Care Unit. He subsequently moved to the State University of New York where he was Chair of the Cardiovascular Division, Associate Chair of Medicine for Academic Affairs, and Professor of Medicine. After four years he moved to the Mayo Clinic where he is presently Professor of Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division and Chair of the Division of Core Clinical Laboratory Services within the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. He is a noted authority on the use of biomarkers of cardiac injury, inflammation, hemodynamic disturbance, and coagulation and particularly in regard to their clinical utility. He has published a large number of original manuscripts, book chapters, reviews, and sits on most of the prestigious editorial boards and guideline committees in the Cardiology community.

 

Professor William Frank Peacock IV, MD, FAECEP

William graduated Wayne State University and completed his Emergency Medicine training at William Beaumont Hospital, in Detroit, Michigan. He is now a member of the faculty, serves as Vice-Chair, and is the Medical Director of Event medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Emergency Department. Dr. Peacock is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, is the President elect for the Society of Chest Pain Centers and is an active international speaker at cardiology and emergency medicine meetings. With over 300 publications in heart failure and acute coronary syndromes, he also is the co-editor of the books Cardiac Emergencies, Short Stay Management of Heart Failure, and Short Stay Management of Chest Pain. Finally, he is the 2004 and 2010 winner of the Best Paper award from the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the Codman Award recipient from the American Association of Group Practice.


Associate Professor Robert S. Hoffman, MD, FAACT, FACMT
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine (Clinical Pharmacology)
Director, New York City Poison Control Center
Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine Bellevue Hospital Center

Robert S. Hoffman received a BA in chemistry from Brandeis University in 1980 and immediately entered New York University School of Medicine. Following earning his MD, he completed a 3-year internship and residency in Internal Medicine also at the New York University School of Medicine, followed by a Fellowship in Medical Toxicology. He achieved Board Certification in Internal Medicine, Medical Toxicology, and Emergency Medicine. In 1989 Dr. Hoffman became the director of the Fellowship in Medical Toxicology at the New York City Poison Center, and in 1994 he became the Director of the New York City Poison Center.

Dr. Hoffman has authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications in various aspects of toxicology that include basic science, animal and clinical investigations. He has also authored numerous textbook chapters for major references in Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He lectures around the world on various aspects of toxicology and has helped to establish poison control centers in Europe and Asia and is currently working in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Hoffman has held offices in all 3 American Toxicology Societies, including a member of the board of trustees of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology; a member of the board of directors of the American Association of Poison Control Centers; and Secretary/Treasurer, Vice President, and President of the American College of Medical Toxicology and is currently the president elect of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology.

Associate Professor William Mallon, MD

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, International Emergency Medicine Program Director, LAC-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California