Prof Michael Eddleston is Professor of Clinical Toxicology at the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Consultant Physician and Pharmacologist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and Clinical Lead for the UK National Poisons Information Service. He trained in medicine at Cambridge and Oxford, completing a PhD at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla. While a medical student, he developed an interest in self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka, leading to a year-long clinical trial and co-authoring the Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine. After basic medical training, he spent four years in Sri Lanka as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow before completing specialist medical training in Edinburgh. He became a Senior Clinical Fellow and Consultant in 2009 and was appointed Professor in 2013. He now leads an international research group focused on preventing deaths from acute poisoning while continuing clinical work at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Dr Rose Cairns is a NHMRC emerging leadership fellow and senior lecturer in Pharmacy at The University of Sydney. She is also Director of Research at the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre. She is a practicing poisons information specialist, providing clinical advice to healthcare professionals and members of the public on poisoning. Her research focus is on intentional poisoning and suicide, and evaluating the impact of legislative changes on poisoning.

Dr David Wood is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Toxicologist at the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s Health Partners and a Reader in Clinical Toxicology at King’s College London in London, UK. He has a research and academic interest in the epidemiology of use of and harms related to recreational drugs, new psychoactive substances and misused prescription medicines, and co-founded the European Drug Emergencies Network (Euro-DEN) Plus project and registry.

Dr Man Li TSE is an emergency physician and clinical toxicologist based in Hong Kong. After acting as the consultant-.in-charge of the Hong Kong Poison Information Centre from 2008-2023, he was appointed the founding Medical Director of the Hong Kong Poison Control Centre under Hospital Authority from 2023-2025. He was an ex-President of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology 2021-2022. He is elected the Chairman of Clinical Toxicology Board in the Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine since 2023 and is a member in several advisory committees to the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the People’s Republic of China that includes the Kong Poison Control Network, Expert Committee on Food Safety, Core Team in the Expert Group on Drug Registration under the Pharmacy and Poison Board and Vetting Panel for the Chinese Medicine Development Fund. Dr Tse has published around 100 peer-reviewed papers relating to clinical toxicology and poisoning.

Dr Thanjira Jiranantakan is the NSW Health Clinical Toxicologist and Public Health Advisor, translating clinical expertise into public health practice for the benefit of both individuals and broader communities. Her portfolio includes, but is not limited to, music festival harm reduction, toxico-surveillance and early warning system, and other Centre for Alcohol and Other Drugs priorities to enable policy, strategy and program related to the prevention, harm minimisation and treatment of alcohol and other drug harms, and to support the legislative frameworks. Thanjira has extensive experience in stakeholder management and partnerships with multiple government agencies, industries, people with lived and living experience, and broader community engagement. She provides advice to and communicates with government officials and has appeared before various legislative processes, including representing NSW Health at the Parliament Inquiry. She is the senior NSW Health medical officer on duty during the music festival operations, with a high risk of multiple drug-related harm. She serves as the Clinical Lead and the Clinical Toxicologist for the NSW Drug Checking Trial, with extensive involvement in establishing, implementing, and supporting the evaluation. Thanjira works clinically as a Senior Staff Specialist in the Drug Health Services department at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and in the Sydney Local Health District Area Toxicology. She is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. She is the current President-Elect of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology (APAMT) and is a member of many state, national and internal committees.