Jerrold Leikin MD

Dr. Jerrold B. Leikin is currently the Director of Medical Toxicology at NorthShore University HealthSystem-OMEGA located at Evanston, Highland Park, Skokie, and Glenbrook Hospitals in Illinois and also Associate Director of the Toxicon Consortium based at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago. In addition, he is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Pritzker School of Medicine (University of Chicago) and a Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Rush Medical College.

In 1980, Dr. Leikin 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 the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

He 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 Dr. Leikin 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 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.