Paul Wax, MD, FACMT

Dr. Wax is the Executive Director of the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) and an Adjunct Clinical Professor at UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Dr. Wax received his B.A from Dartmouth College, his M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, his Emergency Medicine residency training at UCLA, and his Medical Toxicology fellowship training at New York University.  He is Board-certified in both Medical Toxicology and Emergency Medicine. In 2010 Dr Wax co-founded ACMT’s Toxicology Investigators Consortium, known as ToxIC. A multicenter research consortium and patient registry, ToxIC currently receives funding from NIH, CDC, and FDA and in recent years has focused on the fentanyl epidemic. In 2019 Dr. Wax received the Career Achievement Award in Medical Toxicology from the American College of Medical Toxicology.