Dr. Diana Felton is board certified in emergency medicine and medical toxicology. She has recently taken over as Chief of the Hawaii Department of Health’s Communicable Disease and Public Health Nursing Division. Prior to that, she was the State Toxicologist with the Hawaii Department of Health Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response (HEER) Office.

She worked with many state, federal, and community partners on issues such as childhood lead poisoning prevention, safe fish consumption, air pollution risks, pesticides, and other environmental health hazards. She is a member of the Hawaii Advisory Committee on Drug Abuse and Controlled Substances and EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee.

She is a proud graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, attended medical school at the University of California, Davis, and completed her emergency medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Fellowship training was completed at the Harvard Medical Toxicology Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in conjunction with the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Poison Control Center.