Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Resident: Jessica Kent

Bio

Jess is one of the 2nd year fellows in our program and a research fellow-in-training with the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC), a toxicosurveillance network affiliated with the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT). Prior to joining us Jess completed her emergency medicine residency training at the University of Toronto and now works as an emergency physician at St. Michael's Hospital, investigating coroner for the North Peel region of the province and clinician investigator at the University of Toronto.

Throughout her fellowship Jess has done additional electives in addictions medicine as well as in forensic toxicology. She recently completed a novel toxicology at the Center for Forensic Science Research and Education in Pennsylvania.

Area(s) of Interest for Research/Scholarly work 

Addictions and forensic aspects of clinical pharmacology & toxicology including novel psychoactive substance use and preventable drug death