Meghan Spyres, MD, FACMT Board Member (Term 1)
Biography
Dr. Meghan Spyres is currently Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Arizona—Phoenix as well as faculty in the Department of Medical Toxicology at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix. She serves as Medical Director for the Banner Poison and Drug Information Center in Phoenix, Arizona. She is also mother to her young son Oisin, an up-and-coming envenomation expert and reptile enthusiast.
Dr. Spyres has been involved with ACMT since receiving the Spadafora Award as an
Emergency Medicine resident in 2016. She subsequently co-founded and lead the
ACMT section Women in Tox (WiT), served on ASM planning committees and held multiple senior roles in the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC), including FDA, NIH, and AAAP funded projects on novel drugs of abuse and toxicosurveillance (DOTS, NOSE and NDEWS). She currently serves on ACMT’s Journal of Medical Toxicology
(JMT) editorial board.
Education
Dr. Spyres received her B.S. from Tufts University, graduating Magna cum laude, and her Doctorate of Medicine degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. She completed her Emergency Medicine residency training as chief resident at Bellevue/NYU, and her Medical Toxicology fellowship training at
Banner—University Medical Center Phoenix in 2016. She is board certified in
Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology.
Medical Toxicology Areas of Focus
Dr. Spyres’ primary area of academic interest in Medical Toxicology is clinical research with a focus on rattlesnake envenomations utilizing ToxIC’s North American Snakebite Registry. Her current projects examine differences in outcomes in relation to risk factors
and management variability as well as long term outcomes after Crotalid envenomation. Additional areas of research interest include novel drugs of abuse and gender equity within medical toxicology.