Nick Buckley (MD FRACP) is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Sydney, a consultant clinical toxicologist at the NSW Poisons Information Centre and RPA Hospital, Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Australian Medicines Handbook, Deputy Editor of Clinical Toxicology, a past President of The Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology, and Research Director of the South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (SACTRC- http://www.sactrc.org). SACTRC does clinical and public health research on pesticides, plant & pharmaceutical poisoning, snakebite, translation into practice, neurotoxicity and kidney biomarkers. In Australia, his research has largely been clinical, epidemiological and pharmaco-epidemiological studies on analgesic and psychotropic drug poisoning & misuse. His research has attracted continuous project and program funding since 2002 which has resulted in an extensive publication record including 480+ peer reviewed journal articles and 25 book chapters.