During his first few years with the PCMH Emergency Department, Meggs successfully completed a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at the New York City Poison Center and Department of Emergency Medicine, Bellevue Hospital Center, affiliated with New York University.
He currently serves as professor and chief of the Toxicology Department of the ECU Emergency Medicine Residency program.
His main research interests include antidotes to poisonings, poisonous snakebites, toxicity of pharmaceutical overdoses, effects of chronic low level exposures to pesticides, environmental factors in obesity, and the role of inflammation in overall health.
[3] His expertise has led to the total or partial authorships of three books: Gulf War illness and the Health of Gulf War Veterans: Scientific Findings and Recommendations, The Inflammation Cure, and Biomarkers of Immunotoxicity.
His broad range of research has included investigating intracellular molecular polarity modeling; discovering and defining RUDS and inflammatory syndromes; establishing a link between organophosphate exposures and obesity; evaluating the anecdotal effect of heparin to teat anaphylactoid shock; and the best way to delay onset toxicity from potentially fatal snakebites.