Diane Calello – @DrDianeC
Diane Calello is the Medical Director of the NJ Poison Control Center at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. A short person by birth and a pediatric toxicologist by choice, she cares for poisoned patients of all sizes. Other interests include pugs and parenthood.
Howard Greller – @heshiegreshie
Howard is a lifetime New Yorker, lover of 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine, and aims to catalog every hole in the human body and what people squirrel inside. Oh, and he's a toxicologist as well.
Chris Holstege – @ChrisHolstege
Chris is a Michigander transplant living in the shadow of Dan’s hillbilly Blue Ridge Mountains where moonshine flows freely and hiking trails abound. His time is consumed by not only work, but also the activities of his 6 children. He leads and works closely with numerous entities within the University of Virginia.
David Juurlink – @DavidJuurlink
Dave came perilously close to life as a mediocre drummer living in a van down by the river. Somehow, he ended up as an internist, clinical pharmacologist and medical toxicologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences in Toronto. In his spare time, he’s a dad/chauffeur/ATM to a household of kids, passable cook, mediocre drummer, mediocre-er squash player and snowboarder-treehunter hybrid.
Jeff Lapoint – @lapizity
Jeff Lapoint is the Director of the Medical Toxicology Division at Kaiser Permanente San Diego. He is a father, aging video gamer, surfer, spearfisherman, and an occasionally willing MMA punching bag. Dedicated Guardian of the Toxicology Galaxy. Scruffier and marginally funnier in person.
Jeanna Marraffa – @jmmarraffa
Jeanna comes to you from the snowiest city in the U.S. She wears the structure of serotonin on her lab coat, partly to stump her students, but mainly because she is kind of nerdy. She is a wanna-be runner, a part time yogi and an all 'round lover of sun and sand. She likes drugs :). And their mechanisms. Because of that she doped her way through pharmacy school and yada-yada-yada is now a clinical toxicologist.
Dan Rusyniak – @drusyniak
Dan is a Hillbilly Hoosier toxicologist, underwater kung fu fighting enthusiast, and beat Mario Kart:Double Dash in mirror mode.
Sarah Shafer – @toxiferoustales
Sarah is a medical toxicologist, EM physician, and amateur glutton.
Meghan Spyres – @mbspyres
Meghan Spyres is a Medical Toxicologist and Emergency Physician at USC. A New Yorker at heart, she bravely faces Southern California sunny skies and sunny dispositions on a daily basis.
Andrew Stolbach – @toxicologist12
Andrew Stolbach is a Medical Toxicologist and Emergency Physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is a lifelong student of medicine, jiujitsu, wrestling. He has read a biography of every US President.
Any direction in regard to gabapentin taper schedule?
I am an EP, volunteer medical director for a recovery center.
Many half-way houses are starting to require transfers from the recovery centers to be off gabapentin, which I agree with in almost all cases.
I’ve been searching for a reasonable tapering guideline and cannot find much out there.
I realize that this is a new enough topic that there probably isn’t anything that has significant research to back it up. I would appreciate a tox community opinion on what would be reasonable to try, based on known pharmacokinetics, past experience, etc. Thanks.