Associate Professor Amanda Gwee MBBS FRACP DTMH PhD is the 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 the 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, at the 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 across 17 hospital/research institutions in Australia and New Zealand, dedicated to improving equity in access to optimal antimicrobial use in children.
Associate Professor Amanda Gwee MBBS FRACP DTMH PhD is the 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 the...
Associate Professor Amanda Gwee MBBS FRACP DTMH PhD is the 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 the 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, at the 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 across 17 hospital/research institutions in Australia and New Zealand, dedicated to improving equity in access to optimal antimicrobial use in children.
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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)
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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)
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106728
2023
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Lawrence, J, Pittet, LF, Hikmat, S, Silvester, EJ, Clifford, V, Hunt, R, Gwee, A.
Short-course intravenous antibiotics for young infants with urinary tract infection.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
107(10)
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934 -940
2022
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Boast, A, Curtis, N, Holschier, J, Purcell, R, Bannister, S, Plover, C, Chinnapan, M, Burgner, D, Boyce, SL, McNab, S, et al.
An Approach to the Treatment of Children With COVID-19.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
41(8)
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654 -662
2022
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