Timothy B Erickson
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, USA
Biography
Timothy B Erickson is a new HHI Core Faculty Member with expertise in environmental toxicology and crisis in climate change. He is an Emergency Medicine Physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston where he serves as the Chief of Medical Toxicology in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He has earned his MD degree from The Chicago Medical School in 1986. He has completed Emergency Medicine Residency training at the University of Illinois and his Medical Toxicology Fellowship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, American College of Medical Toxicology, American Academy of Clinical Toxicology and the prestigious National Geographic Explorers Club. Previously, he served as the Director for the UIC Center for Global Health and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been a Member of multiple Editorial Boards and has a prolific academic history including publishing over 120 original journal articles and book chapters as well as editing 4 major textbooks. He has presented over 100 national and international invited lectures related to emergency medicine, toxicology, humanitarian global health and wilderness/expedition medicine.