Jan De Waele

Prof Jan De Waele is a surgical intensivist at the department of Intensive Care Medicine of the Ghent University Hospital, Full Professor of Medicine at Ghent University and Senior Clinical Investigator with the Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium. His research activities deal with optimizing antibiotic therapy in severely ill infected patients to improve outcome and combat resistance development, with specific interest in PK/PD, therapeutic drug monitoring of antibiotics as well as antimicrobial stewardship. He is the past chairman of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) Research Committee (2018-2021) and currently serves as President of the ESICM.