Drug and Poison Information Center
Division Details
Division Data Summary
Research and Training Details
| Number of Faculty | 9 |
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| Number of Joint Appointment Faculty | 4 |
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| Number of Support Personnel | 110 |
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| Direct Annual Grant Support | $588,571 |
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| Peer Reviewed Publications | 4 |
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Clinical Activities and Training
| Number of Clinical Staff | 0 |
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| Number of Other Students | 73 |
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| Outpatient Encounters | 137,550 |
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Division Photo
Row 1: A Behrman, G Tsipis, E Chaffin, S Goertemoeller
Row 2: E Nelson, E Otten, T Carson, J Scaglione
Row 3: G Galletta, E Siegel, J Schmees, R Goetz, S Yin, D Petersen
Significant Accomplishments
Significant Accomplishments
Protecting the Public
With 27 certified specialists in poison information and 51 staff certified in national incident management systems, our Drug and Poison Information Center is one of the largest in the country. Our center serves 20 Ohio counties with a combined population of 3.7 million. Our center regularly collaborates with county, regional and statewide medical response and disaster preparedness programs, including planning for the World Choir Games held in Cincinnati in July 2012. Our Health Alert Network sent Alert faxes to 60 regional hospitals on subjects such as blue green algae in local rivers, “bath salts,”and prescription drug abuse. The Center’s Pharmacovigilance and Medical Communication Units continues to gather and evaluate poison control data on a variety of public health issues such as food poisoning, water quality, concentrated laundry single use detergents, alcohol sanitizers, substance abuse patterns and terrorism preparedness.
Community Outreach and Education
Our center continued to implement programming to promote healthy drug- free lifestyles to youth, parents and communities. Our staff includes prevention specialists, health educators, pharmacists, other health care professionals and law enforcement officers who serve as positive role models. Last year, more than 27,000 people in Hamilton County have benefited from services including delinquency prevention and violence prevention issues among African-American youth populations. Our center also was significantly involved with Police Chief James Craig’s Children in Trauma Intervention Camp. We also use a People of Color Wellness Alliance Coalition Grant and a Grassroots Urban Mobilization Benefiting Ohio initiative to respond to health disparities and wellness issues prevalent among African American and other minorities in Hamilton County. Our Center also was honored by a visit from the national “Drug Czar” Gil Kerlikowske, who held a press conference here to announce the nation’s new drug policy. The Center also was awarded a UC College of Pharmacy Training Fellowship to host a pharmacy student for the summer.
Staff Recognition
Prevention and education specialist Alton “Chris” Nelms, PhD, was honored with the 2012 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award from Cincinnati Children’s. Julienne Closser and Michelle Bilinski earned specialist certification through the American Association of Poison Control Center and Sheila Goertemoeller received the highest grade nationwide on the association’s annual exam.
Division Highlights
PV/MC units
The Center's special Pharmacovigilance and Medical Communication Units interfacing safety surveillance with the drug industry showed significant growth. Services include: Medical Communications, Adverse Event Collection and Patient Management, Product Complaint and Quality Management, Safety-related protocol development, Technical and Customer Support. Also real time web-based "chat" services are offered for the retail pharmacy industry.
Faculty, Staff, and Trainees
Faculty Members
- Shan Yin, MD, Assistant Professor
- Leadership DPIC Executive Medical Director
- Research Interests Child Abuse via Poisoning or Medication Admin
- Earl G. Siegel, PharmD, Adjunct
- Leadership DPIC Director
- Research Interests Inhalant abuse and substance abuse and poison control prevention
- Jon Colvin, RN, MS, Adjunct
- Leadership Asst. Director
- Research Interests Threat Assessment and Public Health
- Robert Goetz, PharmD, Adjunct
- Research Interests Drug information, toxicology and CYP 450
- Eljorn Don Nelson, PharmD, Adjunct
- Research Interests Substance abuse pharmacology
- Marsha Polk, HPT, Instructor
- Leadership Associate Director
- Research Interests Community prevention, wellness issues and health disparities
- Jan Scaglione, PharmD, Adjunct
- Research Interests Substance abuse epidemiology and toxicology
- G. Randall Bond, MD, Professor
- Leadership DPIC Medical Director
- Research Interests Acetaminophen and Pediatric Cold Medicine Toxicity and Drug Abuse
- Jeffrey Schmees, BS Pharm, Adjunct
- Leadership Managing Director PVMC
- Research Interests Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Drug Safety
Joint Appointment Faculty Members
- Edward Otten, MD, Professor (Emergency Medicine)
- Research Interests Toxicology and toxinology
- Curtis Snook, MD, Associate Professor (Emergency Medicine (VA))
- Research Interests Disaster preparedness and toxicology
- Dan Petersen, Ph. D, Adjunct (College of Medicine (UC))
- Research Interests Plants, Environmental Toxins; Metabolism
- Leslie Dye, MD, Adjunct (Emerg Med. Clinton County)
- Research Interests Medical Toxicology
Division Collaboration
- Emergency Medicine; » Drs. Michael Gittelman/Wendy Pomerantz and
- injury prevention curriculum and CCIC
- Employee Health » Terri Thrasher, RN, MSN
- Injury Reporting on 803 Ouchline
- Research Foundation » Eileen King, Ph. D.
- Clilnical Safety and Pharmacovilance
Grants, Contracts, and Industry Agreements
Division Grants
| Grant and Contract Awards | Annual Direct |
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Polk, M
| People of Color Wellness Alliance |
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| H79SP014669 | 09/30/08-09/29/13 | $125,000 |
Siegel, E
| Ohio Bio-Terrorism Preparedness |
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| 03130012PP0110 | 08/09/09-06/30/12 | $215,000 |
| Poison Control Stabilization and Enhancement Program |
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| H4BHS15468 | 09/01/09-08/31/14 | $248,571 |
| Current Year Direct | $588,571 |
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