Philip O. Anderson
Philip O. Anderson, Pharm.D., FASHP
Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Pharmacy
UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Email: phanderson@ucsd.edu
Website: http://pharmacy.ucsd.edu/faculty/anderson.shtml
Dr. Philip Anderson is Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He chairs the Drug Information course, co-chairs Pharmacy Informatics, and lectures in Pharmacy Practice. He is also the School’s delegate to the United States Pharmacopoeal Convention for the 2010-2015 term. Volunteer duties include attending pharmacist at the UCSD Student-Run Free Clinic in Pacific Beach and the judging at the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair.
Dr. Anderson earned his Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) degree from the University of California San Francisco in 1971. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists and the California Society of Health-System Pharmacists. In 1994 he was awarded a J. William Fulbright Scholarship in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Chile. He was honored in 1993 with the Pharmacist of the Year award from the California Society of Hospital Pharmacists and in 1989 with the Award for Achievement in the Professional Practice of Hospital Pharmacy, presented by the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists Research and Education Foundation. He was also honored as a distinguished thirty-year graduate by the University of California San Francisco in 2001.
Dr. Anderson was the founding Director of the Drug Information Service at UCSD Medical Center Department of Pharmacy until his retirement in 2007. His research interests involve the use of medications in nursing mothers. Dr. Anderson is the author of the National Library of Medicine’s LactMed database, which provides information on the use of medications in nursing mothers. He is also a charter member of the editorial board for Breastfeeding Medicine.
Recent Publications:
Anderson PO, McGuinness SM, Bourne PE. Pharmacy informatics. Boca Raton, FL. Taylor & Francis. 2010.
Author or co-author: Chapter 1. What is Pharmacy Informatics; Chapter 11. Tertiary information sources for professionals and patients; Chapter 14. Clinical pharmacokinetics computer programs.
Anderson PO. Drugs and breastfeeding. In, Handbook of clinical drug data, 11th ed. Stamford, CT: McGraw-Hill, 2010.
Anderson PO. Appendix. The safety of drugs during breast feeding. In Huggins K. The nursing mother's companion. Sixth ed. Boston: Harvard Common Press. 2010. In press.
Anderson PO. Drugs and breastfeeding. In, Renato de Carvalho M, Tamez RN, eds. Amamentaçao: bases cientificas para a prática profissional, ed 3. (Breastfeeding: scientific basis for the professional practice, 3rd edition). Rio de Janeiro. Editora Guanabara Koogan. 2010
Anderson PO. Drug use and lactation. Chapter in Briggs G, Nageotte M, eds. Diseases, Complications, and Drug Therapy in Obstetrics: A Guide for Clinicians. Bethesda, MD. American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 2009:35-53.
Anderson PO. Drug use in lactation. Chapter in the PSAP book, Men’s and women’s health. Kansas City, MO. American College of Clinical Pharmacy. 2008:77-92.
Anderson PO, Valdés V. A critical review of pharmaceutical galactagogues. Breastfeed Med 2007; 2:229-42.
Anderson PO, Sauberan JS, Lane JR, Rossi SS. Hydrocodone excretion into breast milk: the first two reported cases. Breastfeeding Med 2007;2:10-4.
Anderson PO, Pochop SL, Manoguerra AS. Adverse drug reactions in breastfed infants: less than imagined. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2003;42:325-40.
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