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Role Group Leader/Clinician-Scientist Fellow

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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.

Top Publications

  • Zimmermann, P, Gwee, A, Curtis, N. The controversial role of breast milk in GBS late-onset disease. Journal of Infection 74(Breastfeed Med12006) : s34 -s40 2017
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  • Grinlington, L, Cranswick, N, Gwee, A. QUESTION 1: What is the risk of a repeat reaction to amoxicillin or a cephalosporin in children with a history of a non-immediate reaction to amoxicillin?. Archives of Disease in Childhood 102(3) : 285 2017
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  • Boast, A, Gwee, A. Absence of evidence: antimicrobial prescribing in neonates, elderly and pregnant women. Internal Medicine Journal 47(1) : 13 -15 2017
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  • Shanthikumar, S, Clifford, A, Massie, J, Cole, T, Steer, A, Marks, M, Gwee, A. Community-acquired pneumonia in children: what to do when there is no response to standard empirical treatment?. Thorax 71(10) : 957 -959 2016
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  • Boast, A, Curtis, N, Gwee, A. QUESTION 1: Teething issues: can doxycycline be safely used in young children?. Archives of Disease in Childhood 101(8) : 772 2016
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