Jerrold Blair Leikin, MD, FACP, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT, FACOEM, FASAM
Adjunct Clinical Professor
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
About
Dr. Jerrold B. Leikin is currently an Adjunct Clinical Professor on the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Service of UI Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Professor of Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science in North Chicago, Ill. In 1980, he received his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School. He then completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University (1984) followed by a three-year
preceptorship/fellowship training in Medical Toxicology at Cook County Hospital and University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medicine.
Dr. Leikin served as the Associate Director of the Emergency Department at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago from 1998-2001. During this time, he was also the Medical Director of the Rush Poison Control Center and served as Medical Director of the United States Drug Testing Laboratory (from 1991 -1996). He was also the Medical Director of PROSAR (located in St. Paul, MN); a national call center devoted to industrial exposures and product safety issues, up until December 2013.
He has presented over 200 research abstracts at national meetings (primarily to the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology) and have published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals. He is the co-editor of the Poisoning and Toxicology Handbook (now in its fourth edition), published by CRC Press, and the American Medical Association Handbook of First Aid and Emergency Care, and published by Random House (New York). He is also the co-editor with Dr. Robin McFee for the Toxico-terrorism book (McGraw Hill) and the Handbook of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Agent Exposure (CRC Press) both published in 2007. He was also the co-editor of the American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia, published by Random House in 2003. He is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the primary care journal, Disease-a-Month, published by Elsevier. He was on the Illinois State Board of Health from 2016 – 2019