PPP055 - Antimicrobial PKPD with Jason Roberts - Part One

Jane and Dan caught up with Professor Jason Roberts, NHMRC Practitioner Fellow at The University of Queensland and Consultant Clinical Pharmacist at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. Jason is a senior member of the Burns Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre within the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research and is Director of the Centre for Translational Anti-infective Pharmacodynamics in School of Pharmacy where he is also Chair of the research Strategies Committee.

We could have talked to Jason all day. In part one of our two-part discussion on pharmacokinetic modelling of antimicrobials we talk about:

• Jason's pathway to a research career and the projects that his team are currently working on
• The patients and pathogens that benefit from individualised dosing of antimicrobials
• The narrowing therapeutic indices of some antimicrobials
• Some under-recognised adverse effects of beta-lactam antibiotics
• how to apply pharmacokinetics and individualised dosing in everyday practice