@kavitababu

Kavita M. Babu, MD is the Chief of the Division of Medical Toxicology and a Professor of Emergency Medicine. Her research interests include educational and research strategies for opioid safety and overdose prevention, compassionate care for patients with addiction, and advanced surveillance of emerging drugs of abuse.

@skinnypanda_md

Jeffrey Lai, MD, is an emergency physician and medical toxicologist. He is the associate director of the medical toxicology fellowship, director of the outpatient toxicology clinic, and the clerkship director for the Introduction to Medical Toxicology elective. His academic interests include medical education and the application of novel technologies to the treatment of substance use disorder.

@stevebirdmd

Steve Bird, MD, is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Bird served as the residency program director for nearly 9 years, and is a Past President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). He has twice won the residency’s Teacher.

@Doctorrich2

Richard Church, MD, is Assistant Program Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency, a Clinical Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, and a staff toxicologist. His research interests include emerging trends in drugs of abuse.
Dr. Church is an exemplar educator, able to distill complex biochemical pathways in medical toxicology for students, residents, fellows, and senior faculty.

@jennycarey

Jennifer Carey, MD is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and a medical toxicologist. She is also the Co-Director of Integrated Case Exercises (ICE), a case-based course that runs through the first two years of UMass Chan Medical School that aims to integrate threads of knowledge from various parts of the medical student curriculum into interactive case sessions.

@Dr_Carreiro

Stephanie Carreiro, MD, is an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist. Her current research interests include the utilization of of mobile biosensors and microRNA to evaluate drug toxicity, substance abuse, and addiction. After completing her fellowship, she joined the Division as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine.

Evan Bradley MD, PhD, is an emergency medicine physician and faculty member in Medical Toxicology. His PhD research focused on basic mechanisms of gene regulation in bacterial pathogens.

Jean is the Emergency Medicine Fellowship Coordinator. She joined our team in 2020 after a long-standing role as Administrator at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare and Society.

Eric Kaczor, MD, is an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicology fellow. As a resident he worked on the application of biosensors and machine learning as a means to develop a predictive module for the real time detection physician stress, which was accepted for publication and presented at the 2020 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Marc Rigatti MD/PhD is an emergency physician and medical toxicology fellow. He is a former chief resident of the UConn Emergency Medicine residency program. He has a diverse background with expertise in biochemistry, biophysics, and computational modeling.

Dr. Graham is an emergency medicine physician, and medical toxicology fellow. He previously served as chief resident UMass and was a residency representative for MACEP. He has published on multiple topics including ultrasound and prostate cancer. His current research interests lie in cannabinoids, particularly pediatric exposures.