Patil Armenian, MD
Professor
Emergency Medicine - Fresno
School of Medicine

Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, UCSF Co-Director of Medical Toxicology, UCSF Fresno

Patil Armenian, MD is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology. She completed her medical degree at the Boston University School of Medicine. Her residency in Emergency Medicine was completed at University of California, San Francisco, Fresno where she served as Chief Resident in her final year. She completed a Medical Toxicology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Armenian's primary focus is in identification of drug intoxication outbreaks, including novel drugs of abuse such as fentanyl analogs, novel synthetic opioids, phenethylamines, synthetic cannabinoids and synthetic cathinones. Additional areas of expertise include stimulant drug use and traumatic injury patterns and MDMA intoxication and treatment. She helped start the successful inpatient toxicology practice at Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, CA which accepts transfers from all of Central California. In addition to clinical duties, Dr. Armenian also does expert witness and peer review work in toxicology.

• Surface internet marketplace presence and availability of NPS sold as research chemicals: a snapshot study.
  Toxicology Communications 2019 Stephen L. Thornton, Michael A. Darracq, Hallam M. Gugelmann, Patil Armenian
• Stimulant drugs are associated with violent and penetrating trauma.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2018 Armenian P, Effron Z, Garbi N, Dirks R, Benowitz NL, Gerona RR
• Narcan or Nar-can't: Tips and Tricks to Safely Reversing Opioid Toxicity.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2018 Li K, Armenian P, Mason J, Grock A
• Medical toxicology education in US emergency medicine residencies.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2018 Darracq MA, Armenian P, Comes J, Thornton S
• Beware the Danger Lurking Under the Shroud of Alcohol.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2018 Sheehy M, Armenian P, Mason J, Grock A
• Fentanyl, fentanyl analogs and novel synthetic opioids: A comprehensive review.
  Neuropharmacology 2017 Armenian P, Vo KT, Barr-Walker J, Lynch KL
• Intoxication from the novel synthetic cannabinoids AB-PINACA and ADB-PINACA: A case series and review of the literature.
  Neuropharmacology 2017 Armenian P, Darracq M, Gevorkyan J, Clark S, Kaye B, Brandehoff NP
• Backyard Pool Party: Not Your Typical Sunburn.
  Pediatric emergency care 2017 Darracq MA, Heppner J, Lee H, Armenian P
• A cross-sectional emergency department survey of novel psychoactive substance prevalence.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2017 Fockele C, Armenian P
• Unintentional Pediatric Cocaine Exposures Result in Worse Outcomes than Other Unintentional Pediatric Poisonings.
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2017 Armenian P, Fleurat M, Mittendorf G, Olson KR
• Ketamine as a first-line treatment for severely agitated emergency department patients.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2017 Riddell J, Tran A, Bengiamin R, Hendey GW, Armenian P
• Hot and Cold Drugs: National Park Service Medication Stability at the Extremes of Temperature.
  Prehospital emergency care 2017 Armenian P, Campagne D, Stroh G, Ives Tallman C, Zeng WZD, Lin T, Gerona RR
• 338 Hot and Cold Drugs: National Park Service Medication Stability at the Extremes of Temperature.
  Annals of Emergency Medicine 2016 P. Armenian, R.R. Gerona, C. Ives-Tallman, W.Z.D. Zeng, T. Lin, G. Stroh, D.D. Campagne
• Critical Illness Associated With Methamphetamine Exposure in the Central Valley of California (CRIME).
  CHEST Journal 2016 Pradeep Doddamreddy, Jakhangirkhodja Tulyagankhodjaev, Crystal Ives, Patil Armenian, Rais Vohra, Vijay Balasubramanian
• Analysis of Gastric Lavage Reported to a Statewide Poison Control System.
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2016 Donkor J, Armenian P, Hartman IN, Vohra R
• Fentanyl and a Novel Synthetic Opioid U-47700 Masquerading as Street "Norco" in Central California: A Case Report.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2016 Armenian P, Olson A, Anaya A, Kurtz A, Ruegner R, Gerona RR
• Illicit Distribution of Prescription Drugs: Report of Inadvertent Chloroquine Toxicity and a Market Survey of Businesses Serving Ethnic Minority Populations.
  The Annals of pharmacotherapy 2014 Grazier MR, Armenian P, Vohra R
• The electric Kool-Aid NBOMe test: LC-TOF/MS confirmed 2C-C-NBOMe (25C) intoxication at Burning Man.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2014 Armenian P, Gerona RR
• Pediatric ergot alkaloid exposures reported to the California Poison Control System: 1997-2008.
  Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2014 Armenian P, Kearney TE
• The Spotlight That Saw Everything.
  Academic Emergency Medicine 2013 Patil Armenian
• Finger injury.
  Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2013 Manternach S, Armenian P
• Role of liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HR/MS) in clinical toxicology.
  Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2012 Wu AH, Gerona R, Armenian P, French D, Petrie M, Lynch KL
• Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia found in an adolescent after a methylenedioxymethamphetamine and marijuana-induced cardiac arrest.
  Critical care medicine 2012 Diffley M, Armenian P, Gerona R, Reinhartz O, Avasarala K
• Multiple MDMA (Ecstasy) overdoses at a rave event: a case series.
  Journal of intensive care medicine 2012 Armenian P, Mamantov TM, Tsutaoka BT, Gerona RR, Silman EF, Wu AH, Olson KR
• 5-oxoprolinemia causing elevated anion gap metabolic acidosis in the setting of acetaminophen use.
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2011 Armenian P, Gerona RR, Blanc PD, Wu AH, Mookherjee S
• Serum verapamil concentrations before and after Intralipid® therapy during treatment of an overdose.
  Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2011 French D, Armenian P, Ruan W, Wong A, Drasner K, Olson KR, Wu AH
• Images in emergency medicine. Adult female with rash on lower extremities. Vasculopathic purpura and neutropenia caused by levamisole-contaminated cocaine.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2011 Lung D, Lynch K, Agrawal S, Armenian P, Banh K
• 48: The Impact of an Intake Model on Patient Care, Resident Education, and Staff Satisfaction at an Academic Emergency Department.
  Annals of Emergency Medicine 2010 L. Weichenthal, P. Armenian, D. Campgane, B. Snowden, G. Kallsen
• Robert S.HoffmanLewis S.NelsonMary AnnHowlandNeal A.LewisNeal E.FlomenbaumLewis R.GoldfrankGoldfrank's Manual of Toxicologic Emergencies2007McGraw-Hill MedicalNew YorkSoft Cover, 1126 pages, $49.95.
  Journal of Emergency Medicine 2010 Patil Armenian