Rate My Professor Bill Boroughf

Dr. Bill Boroughf serves as the Deputy Director of the National Poisons Centre within the Health Sciences Division at the University of Otago. Holding qualifications as a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), Fellow of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (FACEM), and Fellow of the American College of Medical Toxicology (FACMT), he functions as a medical toxicologist and emergency medicine specialist. His special interests include geriatric toxicology, emerging drugs of abuse, and novel approaches for remote delivery of toxicological expertise in rural and underserved communities. Boroughf completed his emergency medicine residency and medical toxicology fellowship at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he served concurrently as academic and clinical faculty.

Prior to assuming his role at the National Poisons Centre in July 2022, Boroughf was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado, a faculty member at the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety Center, and practiced forensic medical toxicology with Toxicology Associates in Denver, Colorado. His research output features key publications such as 'Acute adverse events associated with the administration of hydroxocobalamin for acute cyanide poisoning' in Clinical Toxicology (2018), 'The role of chelation for severe lead toxicity' (2025), 'When It Comes to Snakebites, Kids Are Not All Grown Up: a Comparison of Adults and Children with Rattlesnake Bites' in the Journal of Medical Toxicology (2020), contributions to the Toxicology Investigators Consortium Case Registry annual reports, 'Munchausen syndrome by proxy due to tetrahydrozoline poisoning', and analyses of National Poisons Centre data from 2020-2024. Boroughf serves on the editorial board of Toxinz, supporting advancements in toxicology knowledge dissemination.