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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

  • Osowicki, J, Gwee, A, Noronha, J, Britton, PN, Isaacs, D, Lai, TB, Nourse, C, Avent, M, Moriarty, P, Francis, JR, et al. Australia-wide Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Prescribing in Neonatal Units. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 34(8) : e185 -e190 2015
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  • Gwee, A, Cranswick, N, Curtis, N. Posaconazole. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 34(6) : 604 -606 2015
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  • Osowicki, J, Carr, JP, Bryant, PA, Gwee, A. Comment on: Comparison of oral amoxicillin given thrice or twice daily to children between 2 and 59 months old with non-severe pneumonia: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 70(2) : 635 -636 2015
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  • Gwee, A, Cranswick, N. Anti‐infectives in special populations. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 79(2) : 216 -221 2015
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  • Gwee, A, Coghlan, B, Cranswick, NE. Enabling Equitable Access to Essential Medicines. 109 -116 2015
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