Albert J Nantel
Director, Toxicology

Dr. Albert Nantel received a degree in medicine from the University of Montreal in 1964. He then completed a Master's Degree in pharmacology at the university's Faculty of Medicine in 1966. He was a cardiology research fellow at Notre-Dame de Montréal Hospital in 1967, then a clinical pharmacology research fellow at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He completed a year as a research fellow at McGill University in Montreal in 1968. From 1968 to 1972, he was an assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine at the University of Sherbrooke's Faculty of Medicine before moving on to head up the Regional Toxicology Center at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université Laval (CHUL) in 1972. In 1975, the center became the Quebec Center for Toxicology (Centre de toxicologie du Québec). The same year he was certified by the American Board of Medical Toxicology. From 1980 to 1982, he was director of the Department of Pharmacology of Laval University's Faculty of Medicine. He headed up the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Unit of CHUL's Department of Medicine from 1972 to 1999. He has been a consultant at the Quebec Anti-Poison Center since its creation in 1988. Since his departure from the Quebec Toxicology Center in 2000, he is a medical adviser for the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ).

Dr. Nantel has sat on numerous national committees including the Committee on Policies and Poisons of the Science Council of Canada, the Associate Committee on Scientific Criteria for the Quality of the Environment at the National Research Council of Canada, the Steering Committee on Toxicology at the Quebec Department of Science and Technology, the Associate Committee on Toxicology of the National Research Council of Canada, the Research Advisory Board Wildlife Toxicology Fund, the Stakeholder Advisory Group on Environmental Reporting at Environment Canada, and the Quebec Conservation and Environmental Council. In 1976, Dr. Nantel also chaired the IOC Antidoping Committee for the 21st Summer Olympics in Montreal.

Dr. Nantel has been a consultant for CIDA in Niger; WHO in Morocco, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Sultana of Oman, Qatar and Jordan; for PAHO in Bahamas; for the U.S. Fund in Niger; and the United Nations Development Program in Indonesia, where he worked to set up a national system of Poison Control Centers and Poison Treatment Centers.

He is a member of the Canadian Association of Anti-Poison Centers, the Canadian and American societies of toxicology, the American Association of Public Health, and the American Board of Medical Toxicology.

His research mainly focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of intoxications, human contamination by environmental pollutants, biological indicators of exposure to toxic substances, and toxicology risk analysis and management.
 
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