Rate My Professor Lucy Shieffelbien

Shieffelbien has contributed significantly to the Centre's innovations, including the development of TOXINZ, the toxicology database that received the Supreme Award for Commercialisation from the New Zealand Association for Research in Medicine in 2013 via Otago Innovation Limited. TOXINZ supports emergency management and is used internationally. Her research output includes 12 publications listed on ResearchGate, with 195 citations. Key works feature 'Disposal practices for unused medications in New Zealand' (Environment International, 2009, co-authored with Rhiannon Braund and Barrie M. Peake), which assessed disposal behaviours through a Poisons Centre survey; 'Paediatric poisoning due to nicotine replacement therapy products: An emerging hazard' (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2014); 'Elderly people and poisoning in the New Zealand population' (2012); 'Therapeutic errors captured by the New Zealand National Poisons Centre: a retrospective audit' (Journal of Primary Health Care, 2021); 'Enquiries to the New Zealand National Poisons Centre in 2018' (2020); and studies on school-related exposures (2017-2021). Her efforts advance poisoning epidemiology, prevention education, and public health data analysis.