Document Type
Oral Presentation
Location
Oxford Conference Center
Event Website
https://oxfordicsb.org/
Start Date
21-4-2026 10:30 AM
End Date
21-4-2026 12:00 PM
Recommended Citation
Kingston, Rick, "Botanical hepatotoxicity: Are we accurately characterizing risk vs. hazard" (2026). Oxford ICSB. 6.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/icsb/2026_ICSB/Schedule/6
Publication Date
April 2026
Accessibility Status
Screen reader accessible, Searchable text
Included in
Apr 21st, 10:30 AM
Apr 21st, 12:00 PM
Botanical hepatotoxicity: Are we accurately characterizing risk vs. hazard
Oxford Conference Center
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/icsb/2026_ICSB/Schedule/6
Comments
Dr. Rick Kingston is Co-Founder, President, Regulatory and Scientific Affairs, and Senior Clinical Toxicologist for SafetyCall International LLC and Pet Poison Helpline. Dr. Kingston’s professional and academic career spans over 40 years including previously serving as co-founder and Director of the Minnesota Regional Poison Control Center and serving as a full Professor in the Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy where he continues to serve as a Clinical Professor. He also holds an Adjunct appointment at the Rank of Professor at the University of Mississippi College of Pharmacy and its National Center for Natural Product Research which is co-funded by the US FDA as a Center of Excellence. He has published and presented extensively in the field of clinical toxicology and regulatory policy, and serves on numerous scientific panels, advisory boards and non-profit professional organization scientific committees advising on issues of product stewardship, science, and safety. His professional expertise spans the areas of consumer product post-market surveillance, poisoning epidemiology, natural product toxicology, clinical toxicology and pharmacology, injury prevention, poison control, and product safety regulatory policy. He has been invited by numerous regulatory agencies (US EPA, FDA, CPSC and multiple divisions of Health Canada) to advise on establishing and implementing regulatory standards related to mandatory and voluntary adverse event reporting and use of incident data to assess product safety. Dr. Kingston’s clinical practice site is with SafetyCall International L.L.C., a multidisciplinary healthcare firm academically affiliated with the University of Minnesota and focused on providing consumer product manufacturers’ clinical support in the areas of post-market medical surveillance, regulatory reporting and analytics related to adverse events, and product safety.