​​​​​ Dr. Alex Manini is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. 

 After obtaining his MD from the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Manini completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School.           Following residency, he completed a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at New York University.

 Dr. Manini has authored over 75 peer-reviewed publications and his current research interests include clinical studies to characterize and evaluate adverse cardiovascular events following acute drug overdose. In 2011 he was named the   Young Investigator of the Year by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and in 2013 he was voted Young Investigator of the Year by the European Association of Poison Centres and Clinical Toxicologists (EAPCCT).  He   has received research grant support from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Center for Advancement of Translational Sciences, and the City of New York.  He is currently Associate Director of the   Mount Sinai T32 Investigator Training Program in Emergency Care Research.