Sage Wiener, MD

Dr. Wiener, MD is an Assistant Professor, Director of Medical Toxicology, and Director of 1st and 2nd Year Student Education in the Emergency Department at SUNY Downstate. He earned his medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Jacobi Medical Center/Montefiore Medical Center after a preliminary year of Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. He went on to complete a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at NYU Langone Medical Center/NYC Poison Control Center and joined the Downstate Department faculty in 2004.

Dr. Wiener has been involved in resident education in Medical Toxicology and Emergency Medicine, serving as the department Toxicology Division leader since 2007. He has been involved in medical student education, teaching about Medical Toxicology for students on their Emergency Medicine rotation, running a Toxicology elective for fourth year students, lecturing on Pharmacology and Toxicology, and serving as Chair of the Relevance Committee for curriculum renewal.

Dr. Wiener has served as Chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committees for both University Hospital and NYCH+H/Kings County, and the Pain Management/Opioid Stewardship Committee at University Hospital. He involved in harm reduction efforts including serving as Director and Medical Director of the University Hospital Emergency Department naloxone distribution program, the Emergency Department liaison for the Kings County Addiction LEADS Program, as a member of the NYCH+H Bupe Champions Workgroup, and on the NYC Emergency Department Discharge Opioid Prescribing Guidelines Clinical Advisory Group.

Dr. Wiener is also a Consultant for the NYC Poison Control Center. He has served as Site Principal Investigator on several multicenter clinical trials, and has authored multiple peer reviewed publications and textbook chapters. He has served as a peer reviewer for multiple journals and an abstract reviewer for ACMT, INDUS-EM, and WACEM, and has lectured widely on medical toxicology-related topics.

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Education

Undergraduate: Cornell University, BS

Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Internship: Beth Israel Medical Center

Residency: Jacobi Medical Center/Montefiore Medical Center

Fellowship: NYU Langone Medical Center/NYC Poison Control Center (Medical Toxicology)

Search Dr. Wiener's Publications on PubMed.

• Schier JG, Wiener SW, Touger M, Nelson LS, Hoffman RS. Efficacy of Wyeth Polyvalent antivenin for the treatment of Hognosed Viper (Porthidium nasutum) envenomation. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2003 Mar;41(3):391-5.
• Wiener SW and Nelson LS. Chapter 22: Incapacitating Agents. In: Roy MJ, ed., Physician's Guide To Terrorist Attack. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press Inc., 2004.
• Wiener SW and Hoffman RS. Nontoxic Exposures. In: Erickson, Ahrens, Aks, Baum and Ling, eds. Pediatric Toxicology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
• Wiener SW, Hoffman RS. Nerve agents: a comprehensive review. Journal of Intensive Care Medicine 2004 Feb;19(1):22-37.
• Wiener SW, Liu S, Nelson LS, Hoffman RS. Nutropin or Neupogen? A medication error resulting in leukocytosis (letter). Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2004 April;38(4):721.
• Wiener SW, Hoffman RS. Chapter 276: Alcoholic Ketoacidosis. In: Wolfson AB, Hendey G, Linden C, Rosen CL, Schaider J, et al, eds. The Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
• Wiener SW, Hoffman RS. Chapter 17: Mushrooms. In: Aghababian RV, et al. Essentials of Emergency Medicine. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
• Baden EY, Prodany K, Wiener SW, Hoffman RS. Diphenhydramine in the treatment of akathesia induced by prochlorperazine (letter). Journal of Emergency Medicine 2005 Apr;28(3):347-8.
• Wiener SW, Nelson LS. Cholinergic Agent Attack. In: Ciottone GR, ed. Disaster Medicine. Boston, MA: Mosby, 2006.
• Wiener SW, Hoffman RS. Trends in toxicology: advances that may change your practice. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology 2005 Jul;97(1):1-7.
• Wiener SW. Chapter 103: Toxic Alcohols. In: Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, 8th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2006.
• Nishigima DK, Wiener SW. Toxicity, Organophosphate and Carbamate. EMedicine. Available at: http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic346.htm. Updated Dec 5, 2005.
• Soghoian S, Wiener SW. Toxicity, Antabuse. Emedicine. Available at: http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic?.htm. Updated, 2006.
• Wiener SW. Dew of Death- The story of lewisite, America's World War I weapon of mass destruction (book review). JAMA 2006 Aug;296:592-593.
• Wiener SW, Hoffman RS. Alcoholic Ketoacidosis. In: Wolfson AB, Hendey G, Linden C, Rosen CL, Schaider J, et al, eds. The Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008 (in press).