Dr. Toner is an internist and emergency physician. His primary areas of interest are healthcare preparedness for catastrophic events, pandemic influenza response, and medical response to bioterrorism. He is Managing Editor of the Clinicians’ Biosecurity News and an Associate Editor of the journal Health Security.

Dr. Toner has authored scores of scholarly papers, commentaries and editorials on hospital and pandemic preparedness, and he has organized numerous meetings of national leaders on the topics of hospital preparedness, pandemic influenza, mass casualty disasters, biosecurity, biosurveillance, and nuclear preparedness. He has spoken at many national and international conferences on a range of biosecurity topics and appeared on a number of high-profile national television and news features on pandemic flu and bioterrorism preparedness. He has been the principal investigator of a number of ASPR and CDC funded projects exploring issues in healthcare preparedness. He has been involved in many national task forces, working groups and committees.