Ian Whyte

Biography

Professor Whyte is Director of the Department of Clinical Toxicology and Pharmacology at the Calvary Mater Newcastle and Director of the Hunter Area Toxicology Service in NSW Australia. He is Conjoint Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Newcastle. He is a clinical toxicologist and clinical pharmacologist with Fellowships of 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 Poison Control Centres and Clinical Toxicologists. He has been an investigator on numerous intervention trials. He has published more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed journals and numerous book chapters, reviews, editorials, letters and abstracts. His current areas of clinical and research interest include psychopharmacology, deliberate self-poisoning, suicide prevention and the application of evidenced based medicine in Clinical Toxicology. Professor Whyte has a long-term interest in database development for clinical research, particularly in the area of clinical toxicology. He developed and programmed the original HATS database recognised as a unique resource both for its content and design. Professor Whyte is also one of the authors of HyperTox, a computerised educational text published in HTML (now available on-line at http://www.wikitox.org) designed for emergency ward management of poisoning and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching of clinical toxicology.

Research Interest

 Clincal Toxicology,Clincal Pharmacology,Research,etc