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A/Prof Amanda Gwee

A/Prof Amanda Gwee

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Role Group Leader/Clinician-Scientist Fellow

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Available for student supervision
A/Prof Amanda Gwee MBBS FRACP DTMH PhD is Leader of the Antimicrobials Group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She is a general paediatrician, infectious diseases physician and clinical pharmacologist as well as Clinical Lead of Research in the Department of General Medicine at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. In addition, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. Her research program focuses on optimising antimicrobial use and access in children and includes national and international clinical trials, pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic studies, and cohort studies. Amanda is passionate about improving medication use in children and is therefore involved in several international guideline/expert groups (European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, WHO, Therapeutic Guidelines). She created and leads the Australasian KIDS DOSE consortium, a network of paediatric clinician researchers cross 17 hospital/research institutions in Australia and New Zealand, dedicated to improving equity in access to optimal antimicrobial use in children.
A/Prof Amanda Gwee MBBS FRACP DTMH PhD is Leader of the Antimicrobials Group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She is a general paediatrician, infectious diseases physician and clinical pharmacologist as well as Clinical Lead of Research...
A/Prof Amanda Gwee MBBS FRACP DTMH PhD is Leader of the Antimicrobials Group at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She is a general paediatrician, infectious diseases physician and clinical pharmacologist as well as Clinical Lead of Research in the Department of General Medicine at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. In addition, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. Her research program focuses on optimising antimicrobial use and access in children and includes national and international clinical trials, pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic studies, and cohort studies. Amanda is passionate about improving medication use in children and is therefore involved in several international guideline/expert groups (European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, WHO, Therapeutic Guidelines). She created and leads the Australasian KIDS DOSE consortium, a network of paediatric clinician researchers cross 17 hospital/research institutions in Australia and New Zealand, dedicated to improving equity in access to optimal antimicrobial use in children.

Top Publications

  • Phuong, LK, Cheung, A, Agrawal, R, Butters, C, Buttery, J, Clark, J, Connell, T, Curtis, N, Daley, AJ, Dobinson, HC, et al. Inborn Errors of Immunity in Children With Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: A Multicenter Prospective Study. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 42(10) : 908 -913 2023
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  • Pittet, LF, Moore, CL, McDonald, E, Barry, S, Bonten, M, Campbell, J, Croda, J, Dalcolmo, M, Davidson, A, Douglas, MW, et al. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination for protection against recurrent herpes labialis: a nested randomised controlled trial. EClinicalMedicine 64: 102203 2023
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  • Purcell, R, Yeoh, D, Bowen, A, Britton, PN, Carr, JP, Chen, M, Cheung, K, Clark, J, Irwin, A, Lai, T, et al. A multicentre, retrospective audit of fosfomycin use for urinary tract infections in Australian children and adolescents. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 78(7) : 1616 -1621 2023
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  • Wilkins, AL, Lai, T, Zhu, X, Bolisetty, S, Chiletti, R, Cranswick, N, Gardiner, K, Hunt, R, Malhotra, A, McMullan, B, et al. Individualized vancomycin dosing in infants: prospective evaluation of an online dose calculator. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 61(3) : 106728 2023
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  • Gwee, A, Duffull, S, Zhu, X, Tong, SYC, Cranswick, N, McWhinney, B, Ungerer, J, Francis, J, Steer, AC. Population pharmacokinetics of ivermectin for the treatment of scabies in Indigenous Australian children. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 14(12) : e0008886 2023
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