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Barry Logan, PhD


Dr. Barry Logan is Executive Director at the non-profit Center for Forensic Science Research and Education (CFSRE) at the Fredric Rieders Family Foundation in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.   He is also Chief Scientist at NMS Labs in Horsham PA, where he leads a team of forensic toxicologists and certifying scientists.  He holds academic appointments at Arcadia, Thomas Jefferson and Indiana Universities in the United States.

Dr. Logan is a Fellow of the American Board of Forensic Toxicologists (ABFT), and has over 200 publications and has made over 700 presentations in forensic toxicology and analytical chemistry, including work on the effects of illicit and prescription drugs on drivers, and drug caused and related death.  His current research priorities are focused on new drug trends, the opioid crisis, rapid reporting of drug mortality data, and the analytical and interpretive toxicology and chemistry of novel psychoactive substances, founding www.NPSDiscovery.org in 2018.

Dr. Logan’s contributions to the field of toxicology were recognized in 2021 by the International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT) presentation of the Alan Curry Lifetime Career Achievement Award.