The Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Anthony S. Manoguerra

Dr. Anthony Manoguerra is an Emeritus Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is also the Former Director of the San Diego Division of the California Poison Control System at UCSD Medical Center.

He received his Pharm.D. degree from the University of California San Francisco in 1971 and completed a Clinical Pharmacy Residency also at UCSF from 1971-1972. Prior to coming to San Diego he was a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy from 1972-1974 and at the University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy from 1974-1977. While in Minnesota, he was also Director of the Hennepin County Poison Center in Minneapolis, MN. He joined the faculty of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, San Diego Program in 1977. He served as the Program Director of the UCSF/UCSD Pharmacy Education Program from 1995-2001. In 2000, he was granted partial release time by UCSF to assist in the development of the UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. In 2003, his appointment was transferred from UCSF to UCSD. From 1977 through 2003, he was director of the San Diego Regional Poison Center which was later changed to the San Diego Division of the California Poison Control System. In 2007, Dr. Manoguerra officially retired from the University and is currently on a recall assignment.

Dr. Manoguerra is a Diplomate of the American Board of Applied Toxicology and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Poison control Centers and the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology. He is also a past-President of the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

For over 25 years, Dr. Manoguerra's clinical practice involved the assessment and management of patients poisoned by a wide variety of toxic substances. As Director of the San Diego Division of the California Poison Control System, he was responsible for the supervision of a staff of pharmacists, nurses and technical support staff who provided poison control services to the citizens of Southern California. In this capacity, he was also called upon by government agencies to assist in numerous toxicology-related issues. He served on the San Diego County Metropolitan Medical Strike Team, composed to respond to mass casualty emergencies; on the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health Advisory Board; as a consultant to the Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Team for San Diego County and on the County of San Diego Air Pollution Control District Hearing Board. He recently served on a national panel of toxicology experts convened to develop national consensus guidelines for the management of poisoned patients by regional poison centers.

Dr. Manoguerra, in his capacity as Associate Dean for Student Affairs for the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, is responsible for the Offices of Admissions and Student Affairs.

Selected Publications

Anderson PO, Pochop SL, Manoguerra AS. Adverse drug reactions in breastfed infants: less than imagined.Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2003 May;42(4):325-40.

Manoguerra AS, Cobaugh DJ; Guidelines for the Management of Poisoning Consensus Panel. Guideline on the use of ipecac syrup in the out-of-hospital management of ingested poisons. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2005;43(1):1-10.

Manoguerra AS, Erdman AR, Booze LL, Christianson G, Wax PM, Scharman EJ, Woolf AD, Chyka PA, Keyes DC, Olson KR, Caravati EM, Troutman WG. Iron ingestion: an evidence-based consensus guideline for out-of-hospital management. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2005;43(6):553-70.

Manoguerra AS, Erdman AR, Wax PM, Nelson LS, Caravati EM, Cobaugh DJ, Chyka PA, Olson KR, Booze LL, Woolf AD, Keyes DC, Christianson G, Scharman EJ, Troutman WG; American Association of Poison Control Centers. Camphor Poisoning: an evidence-based practice guideline for out-of-hospital management. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2006;44(4):357-70.