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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

  • Boast, A, Curtis, N, Cranswick, N, Gwee, A. Voriconazole dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring in children: experience from a paediatric tertiary care centre. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 71(7) : 2031 -2036 2016
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  • Hensey, CC, Gwee, A. Counterfeit drugs: an Australian perspective. The Medical Journal of Australia 204(9) : 344 -344 2016
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  • Boast, A, Carr, J, Curtis, N, Daley, AJ, Gwee, A. Effective CSF concentrations achieved with continuous-infusion flucloxacillin in a child. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 71(12) : 1535 -1537 2015
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  • Boast, A, Osowicki, J, Cole, T, Curtis, N, Gwee, A. Question 1: Co-trimoxazole dosing dilemma: what is the right dose?. Archives of Disease in Childhood 100(11) : 1089 2015
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  • Diamond, Y, Carr, JP, Gwee, A, Freyne, B. Brain Abscess Due to Staphylococcus lugdunenis: A CoNSiderable Pathogen. The Journal of Pediatrics 167(4) : 939 -939.e1 2015
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