Todd Simo

Dr. Todd Simo is the Managing Director of Transportation and Drug & Health Screening at HireRight, a leading provider of global employment background checks, drug testing, education verification, and electronic Form I-9 and E-Verify solutions.  Todd also served as HireRight’s medical director starting in 2009 and was promoted to chief medical officer in 2015. Todd has more than two decades of experience in the medical consulting arena. Prior to HireRight, he was the medical director of an occupational health clinic in Virginia and owned a consulting firm providing medical director services to multiple companies located throughout the country. He is a board-certified medical review officer with vast experience and training in family, occupational and addiction medicine. An established thought leader in the drug and alcohol testing industry, Todd has presented at numerous state, national, and international conferences about drug and alcohol testing best
practices and well as MRO procedures in multiple industries including transportation, logistics, manufacturing, and human resources and frequently offers webinars on these topics.

Statement of Purpose

Drug free workplaces are critical for the health and safety of our working environments and therefore supporting NDASA in its core mission is important to me. I am passionate about education. There is too much misinformation on drugs of abuse. And, I believe educating people in general as well as lawmakers is central to this mission. As a side note, I believe I have saved more lives as an MRO than I could have as a primary care physician. When an illicit drug user is removed from work (either termination or rehabilitation) I believe I may have saved his/her coworkers' lives, potentially the lives of people in the general public (think DOT but the others as well) and hopefully the drug users life (by pushing the donor to take ownership of his/her issue.)