Name:
Dr David Wood FBPhS
Organisation:
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's Health Partners
Year elected:
2012
Primary professional setting:
Clinical
Dr David Wood is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Toxicologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s Health Partners and a Reader in Clinical Toxicology at King’s College London. He has a specialist clinical, research and academic interest and expertise in the epidemiology of use of classical recreational drugs and novel psychoactive substances (NPS) and the harms associated with their use. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in these areas and is co-editor of the textbook “Novel Psychoactive Substances”, an authority reference textbook in this field. He is an expertise adviser on classical recreational drugs and NPS to the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), United Nations and the World Health Organisation.