Education

• MPH - Drexel University School of Public Health (2013)
• MD - University of California San Diego (2005)
• BA in Psychology and History - University of California Berkeley (2000)

Memberships / Professional Affiliations

David Vearrier, MD, MPH, is on staff at Roxborough Memorial Hospital, where he sees patients as an attending physician in the emergency department. He oversees emergency medicine resident physicians and physician assistants while they provide care in the emergency department. Dr. Vearrier served on the Pharmacology and Therapeutics Committee and the Graduate Medical Education Committee at Hahnemann University Hospital.

Dr. Vearrier also sees patients as a medical toxicologist both in the emergency department and on an inpatient basis at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia and Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital. He oversees medical toxicology fellows as they provide care at those facilities. Dr. Vearrier is on staff at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he provides expert medical toxicology consultation for the regional Poison Control Center.

Dr. Vearrier earned his bachelor of arts degrees in history and psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, which he attended on a merit-based Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship, the University's most prestigious award to incoming undergraduates. He graduated with high distinction and completed his thesis on "The History of the Bancroft Library."

He was awarded a second Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship at the University of California, San Diego, where he attended the School of Medicine and earned his doctor of medicine (MD) degree. Dr. Vearrier subsequently earned his master of public health (MPH) degree from Drexel University School of Public Health. He is a member of the Beta Omega Chapter of the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society.

Dr. Vearrier completed his residency in emergency medicine at Hahnemann University Hospital/Drexel University College of Medicine. Following residency, he continued his training at Hahnemann and Drexel University College of Medicine, completing his fellowship in medical toxicology. After working at an outside institution, he returned to Drexel.

Dr. Vearrier completed a residency in occupational medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. As a resident, he twice won the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Resident Research Award and also won the American Occupational Health Conference Occupational Physicians Scholarship Fund Resident Scholarship. He is a certified medical review officer and has conducted thousands of reviews of employment-related drug tests.

Clinical Services

Emergency medical procedures, Toxicology

Internships

• Emergency Medicine - Hahnemann University Hospital/Drexel University College of Medicine

Residencies

• Emergency Medicine - Hahnemann University Hospital/Drexel University College of Medicine
• Occupational Medicine - University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Fellowships

• Medical Toxicology - Drexel University College of Medicine (2008–2010)

Affiliated Hospitals

Roxborough Memorial Hospital, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Mercy Philadelphia Hospital, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital

David Vearrier, MD, MPH, is active in both undergraduate and graduate medical education at Drexel University College of Medicine. He is the course director for the Medical Toxicology Clerkship, an elective available to fourth-year medical students. At the graduate medical education level, he was the program director for the Medical Toxicology Fellowship and a core faculty member for the Emergency Medicine Residency. He developed the medical toxicology core curriculum used in both the Medical Toxicology Fellowship and the medical toxicology rotations for residents, pharmacy residents and medical students.

Dr. Vearrier also provides guest lectures to other specialties and subspecialties both at Drexel University College of Medicine and at other regional academic medical centers. He won the Hahnemann Teaching Award four years in a row (2012-2015).

Dr. Vearrier is the course director for the Occupational & Environmental Toxicology course for the Occupational Medicine Residency at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he holds an adjunct faculty appointment.

He is the chair for the Occupational and Environmental Special Interest Group of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology. He organizes national webinars on occupational and environmental toxicology topics and organizes symposia on occupational and environmental toxicology issues for the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology each year.

Dr. Vearrier is an assistant editor of the online medical toxicology physician resource ToxED. He has authored a number of drug and antidote monographs for that resource.

Research Interests

Occupational, industrial and environmental toxicologic exposures; toxicologic exposure risk assessment; driving impairment; epidemiology of drug abuse

Research

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