Titles

Professor of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research

Executive Director, Maryland Poison Center

School Affiliation

School of Pharmacy

Specialties

• Clinical Toxicology

About

410-563-5580 banderso@rx.umaryland.edu

Dr. Anderson joined the School of Pharmacy (SOP) faculty in 1993 after completing a fellowship in clinical toxicology at the University of California, San Diego and the San Diego Regional Poison Center. He is a member of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology and American Association of Poison Control Centers. He has served as a member of the American Board of Applied Toxicology as well as a trustee for the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology. A center within SOP’s Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research, the Maryland Poison Center (MPC) is certified by the American Association of Poison Control Centers. It operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and is staffed by pharmacists and nurses who are certified as specialists in poison information. The MPC is a free public service that responds to more than 40,000 calls from Maryland residents each year. MPC staff members work to prevent poisonings through outreach and education while optimizing care for individuals whose cases need to be managed in a health care facility. Since its founding in 1972, the center has responded to more than 2 million calls from Maryland residents. Those calls have addressed several important public health incidents, such as the Tylenol cyanide poisonings, Sunlight dish detergent mailing, anthrax release, Baltimore’s Howard Street tunnel fire, and the emergence of new drugs of abuse such as synthetic cannabinoids and “bath salts.”

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This information was last updated November 30, 2022.