Researcher biography

National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellow at the University of Queensland and Pharmacist Consultant at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. Professor Roberts has led multiple international pharmacokinetic studies and holds roles on multiple guideline committees.   

Featured projects Duration
Continuous versus intermittent beta-lactams administration in critically ill patients with sepsis not receiving renal replacement therapy.
Therapeutic drug monitoring and dose personalisation of antimicrobials in mechanically ventilated patients with Gram-negative pneumonia.
Development of clinical practice guidelines on antimicrobial dosing incorporating new knowledge generated by the CRE REDUCE.
Dose optimisation of anti-infectives in patients post-lung transplant
Exploring the impact of altered and variable antimicrobial pharmacokinetics on bacterial killing and emergence of bacterial resistance.
National Health and Medical Research Council
Beta-lactam antibiotic dose optimisation in critically ill patients
Antibiotic penetration into epithelial lining fluid of mechanically ventilated patients with VAP and CAP.
Dose optimisation of antifungals and antivirals in post-lung transplant patients
Exploring population variability of antimicrobial epithelial lining fluid penetration in patients with VAP.
Using laboratory-based infection models to develop better antibiotic dosing regimens
SaMpling Antibiotics in Renal Replacement Therapy (SMARRT).
National Health and Medical Research Council
Anti-infective drugs
Ex Vivo renal replacement therapy study to quantify the effect of differing RRT settings on antimicrobial clearance.  
Sedatives and analgesics
Antimicrobial pharmacokinetics in patients with cystic fibrosis, lung and bone marrow transplant.
National Health and Medical Research Council
Dose optimisation of anti-infective drugs in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) - co-sponsored by CRE ACTIONS
Pharmacokinetics of Flucloxacillin and Lincomycin in burns patients.
National Health and Medical Research Council
PK studies of antimicrobials in patients with VAP, CAP/ PK of antimicrobials
National Health and Medical Research Council
Pharmacokinetics of antifungals in intensive care patients
National Health and Medical Research Council
PK/PD of antimicrobials in other 'at risk patient groups
Pharmacokinetics of antimicrobials in critically ill paediatric patients
National Health and Medical Research Council
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
National Health and Medical Research Council
BLING III: A phase III randomised controlled trial of continuous beta-lactam infusion compared with intermittent beta-lactam dosing in critically ill patients
National Health and Medical Research Council
Pharmacokinetics of antimicrobials in critically ill obese patients
National Health and Medical Research Council
Clinical Microsampling Group
Pharmacometric analysis of antimicrobial pharmacokinetics to propose novel and innovative dosing regimens.
National Health and Medical Research Council
The PNEUDOS Study Program: defining novel and individualised antimicrobial dosing regimens for treatment of pneumonia in ICU
National Health and Medical Research Council
Therapeutic drug monitoring optimisation of antimicrobial exposures for critically ill, burns and transplant patients.