Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, Rush University
Cook County Health
Michael Nelson, MD, MS, FASAM, FACEP, FACMT is an emergency medicine physician, medical toxicologist, and addiction medicine physician practicing at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County and Endeavor Health. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Rush University and at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign receiving his undergraduate degree in bioengineering and a Masters degree in biochemistry. He completed medical school at the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Cook County Emergency Medicine Residency and his fellowship in medical toxicology at the Toxikon Consortium/Cook County Health/University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center. He is a consultant for the Illinois Poison Control Center. He is currently the Program Director of the Medical Toxicology Fellowship Program at the Toxikon Consortium/Cook County Health/University of Illinois at Chicago. He serves as the Co-Chair of the Medication Assisted Recovery/Prescribing Practices Committee for the Illinois Opioid Advisory Council and was a member of the HOPE (Heroin and Opioid Prevention and Education) Taskforce for DuPage County. His areas of interest include emerging drugs of abuse, substance use disorders, and the use of athletic performance enhancing drugs.
