Name Jeffrey Brent | ||
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Alma mater Mount Sinai School of Medicine Thesis The toxicity of 5-bromo 2'-deoxyuridine to malignant lymphoid cells (1978) | ||
Institution Anschutz Medical Campus | ||
Jeffrey Brent Stewart Says He's Going To The Playground With A Knife And A Mask
Jeffrey A. Brent, MD, PhD, FAACT, FACMT, FEAPCCT is a medical toxicologist, one of only about 450 in the United States, who is a distinguished clinical professor of medicine and emergency medicine at the University of Colorado and School of Medicine, where he is among the clinical faculty. In addition, he is a professor at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. He is also the past president of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, and as of 2010 was editor in chief of the journal Toxicological Reviews, as well as a member of the board of directors of the American College of Medical Toxicology. Most of Brent's research focuses on the use of fomepizole as a treatment for both methanol and ethylene glycol poisoning, and he led a trial of this drug which resulted in the FDA approving it for the treatment of ethylene glycol poisoning in December 1997. Brent is also a senior editor of "Critical Care Toxicology: Diagnosis and Management of the Critically Poisoned Patient," originally published in 2005. The second edition is in production and will be published by Spring 2017 He was one of the U.S. government's experts in the autism omnibus hearing, in which he testified in support of the scientific consensus that thimerosal-containing vaccines do not cause autism, and specifically criticized a study by Holmes et al. which the plaintiffs had cited to argue that TCVs were dangerous to a specific subpopulation who were not as good at excreting mercury in hair. He also argued that chelation therapy is of no use as a treatment for autism, and that the signs and symptoms of autism are very different from those of ethylmercury poisoning. Brent is also a member of Toxicology Associates, an academic private practice.
Contents
- Jeffrey Brent Stewart Says Hes Going To The Playground With A Knife And A Mask
- Education
- Career
- Testimony
- Selected publications
- References
Education
In 1970, Brent graduated from Hunter College with a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry, as well as a masters' degree in molecular biology. He completed his PhD in biochemistry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and earned his MD from State University of New York at Buffalo's school of medicine. He also completed a fellowship at Denver Health Medical Center, a residency at Emory University and an internship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Career
He was initially appointed to the UCHSC in 1987 as an instructor, and then was promoted to assistant professor, then associate, and finally full professor. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. He was the chair of the toxicology section of the American College of Emergency Physicians from 1991 to 1993. Through Toxicology Associates, Brent has published many scientific studies, primarily in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Brent is still affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Public Health, through which he is still publishing scientific studies as of July 2013.
Testimony
In the so-called autism omnibus trial, Brent testified on behalf of the government, i.e. that thimerosal does not cause autism. In particular, he criticized the concept of hypersensitivity to thimerosal as a concept that had been invoked as a way to bypass real science. He also testified that, with regard to the levels of mercury in the urine of Jordan King and William Mead, who had been chelated, that "You always expect to see levels in the urine bump post-chelation." He also criticized the plaintiff's use of Doctor's Data Laboratories as relying on urine mercury levels rather than the gold standard, blood mercury levels. Brent has also voiced opposition to the use of chelation therapy as an autism treatment both in the omnibus trial, where he testified that "there was absolutely no reason to chelate them [the children who served as the test cases] for any mercury-related reason," and in peer-reviewed journals.