Louis Gdalman
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Louis Gdalman (1910–1995) was the director of Pharmacy and Central Services at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago.[1]
He is notable for starting the first poison control center in the United States in 1953 along with Edward Press. This effort was driven by 400+ children dying across the country every year from eating high-dose medicine that looked and tasted like candy.[2][3] Many of these deaths would have been preventable if people had better access to information about antidotes, poison control measures and how to treat a victim.
He was the only pharmacist elected a fellow of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago.
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