Assisted by:

Jason Sauberan, Pharm.D. wrote the records for opioid drugs. Dr. Sauberan is a Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at the UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and is a neonatal-perinatal clinical pharmacist practicing at Neonatal Research Institute, Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns, San Diego, California. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the MotherToBaby, San Diego.

Data Peer Reviewed by:

The LactMed peer review panel scrutinizes the data for each drug record to assure their scientific validity, reasonableness, and currency. The initial peer reviewers for the database helped to design the format and scope of content.

Cheston M. Berlin, Jr., M.D. is a continuing reviewer of LactMed records. Dr. Berlin is a Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology at Pennsylvania State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA. He has researched and published widely on drugs and breastfeeding and was a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Drugs which produced the Academy's Statement, "The Transfer of Drugs and Other Chemicals into Human Milk".

Shinya Ito, M.D., ABCP, FRCPC, is a continuing reviewer of LactMed records. Dr. Ito is Professor of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, and a staff physician at Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His research is focused on drug safety in children, including those exposed to drugs in utero or through breast milk

Kathleen Uhl, M.D., FAAFP was one of the original reviewers for LactMed. Dr. Uhl is the former Director of the Office of Women's Health at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Supervisory Medical Officer in FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Team in the Office of New Drugs.