LewisNelsonMDMBA

Medical Toxicology

Professor & Chair, Dept of Emergency Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai HospitalResidency, Emergency Medicine, 1990 - 1993
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore (New Rochelle)Internship, Transitional Year, 1989 - 1990
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of MedicineClass of 1989

PubMed

6 citations
Emergency Medicine Resident Burnout and Examination Performance.
Lara Z Vanyo, Deepi G. Goyal, Ramnik S Dhaliwal, Randy Sorge, Lewis S. Nelson
AEM Education and Training. 2021-07-01
56 citations
Managing Opioid Withdrawal in the Emergency Department With Buprenorphine
Andrew A. Herring, Jeanmarie Perrone, Lewis S. Nelson
Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2019-05-01
28 citations
Reliability of postmortem fentanyl concentrations in determining the cause of death.
James R. Gill, Peter T. Lin, Lewis S. Nelson
Journal of Medical Toxicology. 2013-03-01

Lectures

Medication Management - A Niche in Patient Safety for Emergency Physicians
New York University School of Medicine, NY - 5/15/2014
Opioid Prescribing from Our EDs: Where Do We Go from Here?
New York University School of Medicine, NY - 5/16/2014

Other

Cocaine: Acute intoxication
Nelson L, Odujebe O
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/cocaine-acute-intoxication
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2013-04-08
Internal concealment of drugs of abuse (body packing)
Nelson L, Hoffman RS
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/internal-concealment-of-drugs-of-abuse-body-packing
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-03-20

FDA Approves New Nasal Spray to Reverse OverdosesMay 23rd, 2023
Drug Overdose Deaths Have Quadrupled Among Seniors in the Last 20 Years. Why?April 5th, 2023
Rutgers Medical Toxicologist and Addiction Expert Available to Discuss Fentanyl Vaccine’s ImpactsNovember 17th, 2022
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