Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Pharmacy
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Philip Anderson is Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He has chaired the Drug Information course since its inception and is a member of the Admissions Committee and the Comprehensive Examination Committee as well as the UCSD Medical Center Department of Pharmacy Pharmacy Research Council.
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 (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT), which provides information on the use of medications in nursing mothers. He is also a charter member of the Editorial Board and Pharmacology Editor for Breastfeeding Medicine where he publishes a monthly column on medication use during breastfeeding.
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.
Appendix. The safety of drugs during breast feeding. In Huggins K. The nursing mother's companion. 8th ed. Boston: Harvard Common Press. 2019
Anderson PO. Medications and breastfeeding. In, Breastfeeding handbook for physicians, 3rd ed. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists & American Academy of Pediatrics. 2019
Anderson PO. A guide to treating irritable bowel syndrome while breastfeeding. Breastfeed Med. 2019;14:
Anderson PO. When the heart is not in it: Breastfeeding with cardiovascular disease. Breastfeed Med. 2019;14:
Anderson PO. How sweet it is: Sweeteners in breast milk. Breastfeed Med. 2019;14:14-6.
Anderson PO. Potentially toxic foods while breastfeeding: Garlic, caffeine, mushrooms, and more. Breastfeed Med. 2018;13:642-4.
Anderson PO. Drugs in lactation. Pharm Res 2018;35:45. (Invited review)
Anderson PO, Sauberan JM. Modeling drug passage into human milk. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2016;100:42-52. (Invited review)
Anderson PO, Manoguerra AS, Valdés V. A review of adverse reactions in infants from medications in breastmilk. Clin Pediatr 2016;55:236-44.
Anderson PO, Valdés V. Variation of milk intake over time: clinical and pharmacokinetic implications. Breastfeed Med. 2015;10:142-4.
Appendix. The safety of drugs during breast feeding. In Huggins K. The nursing mother's companion. 7th ed. Boston: Harvard Common Press. 2014
Anderson PO. Medications and breastfeeding. Chapter 12 in, Breastfeeding handbook for physicians, 2nd ed. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists & American Academy of Pediatrics. 2014:175-92.