Clinical & Forensic Toxicology Consulting
Phone: 612-636-1626
Email: porsulak@gmail.com
Professional Experience
More than 30 years experience in clinical and forensic toxicology, clinical and pharmaceutical research and development of drug testing technology.
Research included clinical studies of antidepressant drugs and drugs used to treat bipolar disease, studies of neurotransmitter metabolism in mental illnesses. Clinical work included detection of abused drugs and substance abuse treatment.
Vice President for Clinical Affairs, MedTox Laboratories
Professor of Psychiatry and Pathology, Southwestern Medical School
Director, Toxicology Laboratories, VA North Texas Health Care System
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Expert witness in medical malpractice and criminal cases in Texas, Ohio, North Carolina and Alabama involving antidepressants, Depakote (valproate), abused drugs , drugs used for pain management (morphine, methadone and others), drug interactions, behavioral effects and overdoses.
Published over 250 scientific papers, abstracts, book chapters and educational monographs.
Internationally respected educator in clinical toxicology. Delivered more than 70 workshops and 200 presentations in the US, Europe, Australia and Brazil
Consultant for more than twenty major international pharmaceutical and medical diagnostics companies in clinical toxicology, pharmacology and clinical chemistry.
Member of editorial boards of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology, Clinical Chemistry and Advance for Administrators of the Laboratory.
Editorial reviewer for Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Psychopharmacology, Applied Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and other professional journals.




Phone: 612-636-1626 Paul J. Orsulak, PhD, MBA ® Minneapolis, MN 55415 Email: porsulak@gmail.com
Education and Training
MBA, with honors, Boston University
PhD, Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts
MS, Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts
BS, cum laude, Chemistry, University of Scranton
Member, Society of Forensic Toxicologists
Member, American Association of Clinical Chemistry
Fellow, National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry