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Professor Ian Whyte, MBBS(Hons), FRACP, FRCP(Edin), FACMT, FAACT, FEAPCCT
Professor Whyte has recently retired as a Senior Staff Specialist and Director of Prevocational Education & Training at the Calvary Mater Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He is an Honorary Professor in the Discipline of Clinical Pharmacology, School of Medical Practice and Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle. Graduating from the University of Queensland in 1976 with an MBBS(Hons), he was a clinical toxicologist and clinical pharmacologist with Fellowships in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), the American College of Medical Toxicology, the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology and the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists. His most recent role was as a consultant to the NSW Ministry of Health and chair of the NSW Medicines Formulary Committee, where he led the development of a state-wide formulary for the NSW public health system.
Professor Whyte has been an invited keynote speaker for multiple national and international toxicology and pharmacology societies. He has been an investigator on many intervention trials. He is an invited reviewer for many international journals including the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Critical Care, European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Journal of Australia, Internal Medicine Journal, Emergency Medicine (Australasia), Postgraduate Medical Journal, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice and Clinical Toxicology. He has published over 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals and many book chapters, reviews, editorials, letters and abstracts.
His areas of clinical and research interest included psychopharmacology, serotonin toxicity/syndrome, deliberate self-poisoning, suicide prevention and the application of an evidence-based approach to clinical toxicology.
Professor Whyte has had a long-term interest in database development for clinical research, particularly, but not only, in clinical toxicology. He developed and programmed the HATS clinical database, which is internationally recognised as unique in its content and design. The HATS clinical database principles led to the development of a national clinical database in the United States (the ToxIC Registry) which has been recognised by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry.
Professor Whyte is one author of HyperTox, a computerised educational text published in HTML (now available on-line at http://www.wikitox.org and as an iOS app) designed for emergency ward management of poisoning and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching of clinical toxicology. It is an essential resource for Poisons Information Services in Australia.
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