Dr Jonathan (Jonty) Karro is an Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist. He is the Director of Emergency Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Jonty has been the key ED medical lead in the design, build, implementation and review phases of the award winning St Vincent’s Hospital Mental Health and AOD Hub and presented at the 2023 Mental Health Access and Quality in EDs Conference on ‘Redesigning a constrained ED environment to support acute mental health presentations and provide priority access’.Jonty completed a Sabbatical and Masters in Clinical Toxicology in 2012 working with the Victorian Poisons Information Centre and Austin Toxicology Service. His most significant area of toxicology research has been in the optimal sedation of the agitated/behaviourally disturbed ED patient.
Dr Jonty Karro
