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25.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL AWARD WINNERS Congratulations to all the award winners at the Herston Symposium especially to our very own Dr Suzie Parker and Martha Druery. Suzie won the Discovery and Innovation Research Award and Martha won the Professor Lawrie Powell AC Early Career Researcher Award. Well done ladies. We are very proud of you and your important research and the hard effort you have put into it!!

23.01.2022 WOW! We raised $2522.65 through the B2B for our research centre. Thank you so much to our donors who gave so generously and our supporters who walked on the day! Your donations will go towards research into improving life saving treatments for critically ill babies and adults.

23.01.2022 ALMOST THERE!!!

22.01.2022 THE CELEBRATIONS BEGIN! Our PhD student Ms Chandra Sumi is celebrating submission of her thesis. Chandra has been working day and night in preparation for her submission. She finally submitted yesterday. Well done Chandra. She is celebrating with Kamrul Islam another one of our PhD students and Dr Saurabh Pandey, our research officer.

22.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS PROF LIPMAN! Our Director, Prof Jeffrey Lipman has been honoured with a Member of the Order of Australia award. Jeff has worked tirelessly in the medical field and research arena to help critically ill people. Your hard work has paid off. Well deserved Jeff. He was awarded his medal at a special ceremony at Government House.

22.01.2022 Our research saves lives! Your donation will help continue our life saving research. To donate please go to https://btccrc.centre.uq.edu.au/giving

21.01.2022 UQ TEAS & TOURS EVENT UQ Alumni and guests had a brilliant morning participating in the Teas & Tours program which UQ holds monthly. This month guests were invited to tour our research facilities after enjoying morning tea and helping us celebrate the 15th Anniversary of BTCCRC!! Guests walked through our bio analysis lab, our ICU at RBWH and the Simulation Lab at Dept of Anaesthesia RBWH to get a first hand view of the important research we do!

21.01.2022 CHRISTMAS LUNCH We had our research groups Christmas lunch today at Italian Eat Street! The food was delicious and we all had a great time playing Stealing Santa! Thank you all for a very successful year!

20.01.2022 Well Done Puteri! Our PhD student Puteri Zamri passed her PhD confirmation today. She is now well on her way to investigating the best dosing regimen for antibiotics in hospitalised Malaysian patients. We wish her all the best in her PhD and wish her a safe trip back to Malaysia to complete her clinical research.

20.01.2022 HERSTON STATE OF THE ART SYMPOSIUM AWARDS The Symposium was a huge success this year with over 3000 attendees over the 4 days. Herston campus is becoming a huge hub of innovative research to improve patient care at the RBWH.

19.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS CHANDRA! Congratulations to our researcher Dr Chandra Sumi who graduated today receiving her PhD degree. Well done Chandra. We are proud of your great achievement!!

19.01.2022 OUR RESEARCHERS ARE IN THE NEWS AGAIN! Personalising antibiotic treatment is the way to go for doctors to dose correctly and kill bad bugs!! Our researchers Prof Jason Roberts and Dr Hafiz Abdul-Aziz collaborated with 11 countries to develop Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) guidelines. TDM is a system whereby dosing is personalised for every patient according to their disease state and the way their body interacts with the antibiotic. Everyone is different! Our results showed that TDM leads to better responses from critically ill patients to the antibiotics used, which is extremely important since over 13% of critically ill patients die each year from infections.

19.01.2022 ANOTHER PhD SUBMISSION!! Congratulations to our Martha Druery who just pressed the submit button to submit her PhD thesis! All that hard work and stress is now sheer relief! Well done Martha Druery. We know you will pass with flying colours! Marthas PhD addressed the psychosocial outcomes after major burn injury in adults.

19.01.2022 Brisbane Diamantina Health Partners (BDHP) funding for Prof Jason Roberts research. Click on the link to find out why we do what we do to save critically ill patients lives. https://youtu.be/d8JiqxvHfQM

19.01.2022 It was 15 years ago when Prof Jeffrey Lipman set out to form a research centre that would focus on life-saving treatments for burns patients and critically-ill patients. The Burns Trauma & Critical Care Research Centre (BTCCRC) was established in direct response to the Bali bombings. The devastation and tragedy of this event focused national and international attention on burns victims and emphasized that there was a critical need to improve the early and on-going treatment a...nd outcomes of burns and critically ill patients. Many of the victims were flown to Royal Brisbane & Womens Hospital (RBWH). The outstanding response from the critical care, burns, anaesthetics and emergency medicine teams of the RBWH back in 2002 highlighted the skill and expertise we possess in this area and the need to maintain this expertise. Thus, the BTCCRC was established in 2004, beginning with 3 staff members and no Higher Degree Research (HDR) students to 60 staff members and 30 HDR students in 2019. We are now one of the most prolific research centres in this area of critical care! Happy 15th Anniversary BTCCRC!

18.01.2022 GOOD BYE PATTY Our visiting Pharmacist Researcher Patty Mitre from the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potos In Mexico is going back home after spending 3 months with our research centre to learn pharmacokinetic modelling (software that assists clinicians in using drugs at optimal dosage). Her current work focuses on modelling of levetiracetam in Mexican adult patients with epilepsy. We hope you enjoyed your time here Patty!! We certainly enjoyed having you with us! All the best in the future.

18.01.2022 Thank you Dimitria and Mary for walking the 5kms!! You rock girls!

18.01.2022 Here at BTCCRC we love to celebrate!! So we had a surprise birthday morning tea for our PhD student Gene Chai. Gene will be celebrating the beginning of a new decade on Saturday. Happy Birthday Gene

17.01.2022 IT’S SNOWING AT UQCCR!! Our PhD students and researchers are getting into the festive spirit! Hand made snowflakes by Lisa. Great job guys!

17.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to Chandra Sumi, our PhD student who was awarded her PhD degree very recently. Dr Sumis thesis investigated alternative antibiotic dosing regimens to kill bacteria quickly and efficiently whilst trying to stop the emergence of antibiotic resistance in these bacteria. We are very proud of your great achievement Chandra!

16.01.2022 NOT ALL BUGS NEED DRUGS!! Are you an Antibiotic Guardian? Nermin and Sia Athanasas are!

16.01.2022 Congratulations to our Director, Prof Jeffrey Lipman for being awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his significant service to medicine, anaesthesiology and critical care, and education. Prof Lipman has pioneered antibiotic dosing in the critically ill. His research into antibiotic dosing has changed worldwide antibiotic prescribing practices for critically ill patients. He is internationally recognised as an expert in the field and is regularly asked to speak at international conferences on his research. Well deserved Jeff!

15.01.2022 We did it!!! 10kms!!!! Thank you to Betty, Pella, Barbara, Dimitria Notaras and Mary for their support by walking in todays B2B. Thank you to all our supporters for donating to the BTCCRC. You are making a difference to the lives of critically ill patients!

14.01.2022 YOU DID IT!! A huge Heartfelt thank you to our supporters who participated in our RBWH Giving Day. Your donations so far have helped us raise $8590 for our research. We could not have done it without you. Its not too late to donate. You can still go to https://www.charidy.com/royalgivingday/btcc and show us your support!

14.01.2022 FAREWELL CRISTINA! We say good bye to our visiting academic Prof Cristina Sanches who travelled from Brazil with her family to be with us. Cristina engaged in pharmacokinetic (PK) modelling of data sets from her research group. PK modelling is a mathematical technique used for predicting the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of drugs such as antibiotics. She has learned much and we have enjoyed having her here. We wish you all the very best with your research when you get back home Cristina! Safe travels to you and your family. We will miss you. Thank you for your wonderful gifts! Cristina wrote a monologue of her 196 days in Australia describing her experiences, feelings and of course the magnificent people she has met!

13.01.2022 SUPERBUGS! SUPERSMART! How can we outsmart them? Have a listen to these interviews from experts that attended our AMR forum on the 8th Nov. We all can play a part. https://medicine.uq.edu.au/superbug-series

13.01.2022 Congratulations to our very own Associate Professor Victoria Eley on her award of a Metro North Clinician Research Fellowship for 2021. Vic will use her Fellowship to study how to get better health outcomes for mother and child following a caesarean section by determining if antibiotics given to the mother before incision increases childhood allergic disease. Well done Vic!

12.01.2022 RBWH FOUNDATION GIVING DAY! 15th November! Critically ill babies and adults need your support! Our researchers are striving daily to improve treatments for the sickest patients at RBWH. From small premature babies struggling to survive infections to adults with horrific burns and trauma injuries, our research is helping to save lives. We ask you to dig deep and donate to our centre by going to the RBWH Foundation/BTCCRC Giving Day site https://www.charidy.com/royalgivingday/btcc This year we will not be hosting our annual Heartfelt Dinner so if you have attended our dinner or donated previously, this is a great opportunity to continue your support. All new donors are most welcome! #rbwhfoundation

12.01.2022 Our research is making news! Channel 10 interviewed Prof Jason Roberts yesterday.

12.01.2022 ASK US ABOUT OUR RESEARCH!!! Want to find out what we do here at BTCCRC? Well here are some clips of some of our researchers explaining their research. Martha https://btccrc.centre.uq.edu.au//ask-me-about-my-research- Nilesh https://btccrc.centre.uq.edu.au//ask-me-about-my-research-

12.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS YARMARLY! Our PhD student Yarmarly Guerra Valero today passed her Final Thesis Review. Well done Yarmarly! Her thesis is looking at using micro sampling techniques for taking very small amounts of blood from tiny critically ill babies and children who need to get blood tests to see if the antibiotics they are on are enough to kill the infections they have. She has been working with the wonderful staff at the paediatric intensive care unit at the Childrens Hospital Queensland on her studies. To celebrate Yarmarly treated us to beautiful food and sweets and yummy non-alcoholic champagne!! Yarmarly is working hard to submit her thesis by September. All the best!

12.01.2022 Congratulations to Gene Chai on being awarded a prestigious NHMRC PhD Scholarship for his studies! Gene is investigating the Usability of Precision Dosing Software in the ICU. So he will be working on software that can accurately and precisely dose each patient in the ICU with life saving antibiotics. Well done Gene!!

09.01.2022 Christmas Brunch! Staff and students from our labs at PAH and at RBWH had a fun time at brunch today at Frejas in Wilston. The Sneaky Santa was a huge success.

09.01.2022 UQCCR CONGRATULATES MARTHA! Congratulations to Dr Martha Druery from UQCCR for being awarded her PhD. Martha looked at early factors that determine the Quality of Life that burns victims experience 1 year after their burns injury. She found that female gender, previous mental health status, unemployment, inadequate social support, intentional injury and length of stay in hospital all impacted on insufficient health outcomes. Her thesis has made recommendations on targeted resources for psychosocial services to screen, assess and intervene early for better outcomes of burns patients. Well done Martha!

09.01.2022 https://www.uq.edu.au//researchers-set-begin-clinical-tria Our research centre is teaming up with Prof David Patersons research group to play its part in the fight against COVID-19! Prof Jason Roberts and his team will be measuring levels of the 2 trial drugs in patients plasma to determine the most effective dose.

09.01.2022 We also congratulate our Honorary Fellow Dr Natasha Roberts on her award of a Metro North Clinician Research Fellowship for 2021. Natasha will use her Fellowship to lead research which will underpin needs in prostate cancer care through a collaborative program of research that improves the support and outcomes for men with prostate cancer. Well done Natasha!

08.01.2022 WELCOME PUTERI! We welcome Puteri Zamri, our new PhD student. Puteri is a pharmacist from the Selayang Hospital in Malaysia. Her studies are looking at how ICU and non-ICU patients bodies use the antibiotics colistin and polymixin. We wish you all the best Puteri and hope you enjoy your stay here

08.01.2022 A HEARTFELT THANK YOU to all our generous supporters who donated to B2B. You have helped us raise just under $2250!! Thank you!! There is still time to donate if you havent.

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06.01.2022 WELCOME JEAN-YVES AND FEDERICA We are fortunate enough to have 2 international researchers visiting our centre. Prof Jean-Yves LEFRANT from Nimes in France is a collaborator of ours and we have been working on many projects with his team at the University Hospital of Nimes. Our research teams are working closely together on improving antibiotic dosing for critically ill patients. The right dosing is important to getting better sooner and preventing long term sickness. In many... cases saving very ill patients lives. Bienvenue Jean-Yves! Our second visitor is Dr Federica Portunata from Genova Italy. Federica is currently an Infectious Diseases resident at the Federico II University Hospital in Naples. She has come to be trained in pharmacokinetics of antibiotics so she can better manage the therapy of patients with severe infections. Benvenuto Federica! See more

06.01.2022 UQCCR AWARDS Our Dr Hafiz Abdul-Aziz and Prof Jason Roberts won the Research Output of the Year Award for the greatest number of citations for a paper written by them. The more citations you have the more relevant your research.

05.01.2022 NEW BANNER Our new banner for our Antimicrobial Optimisation (AMO) Group has arrived! Hafiz and Os couldnt wait to pose with it! The AMO Group at UQCCR under BTCCRC IS RESEARCHING more effective ways of dosing patients with antimicrobials, be they adults, children or babies, in order to get them better sooner and even to save the lives of those who are critically ill.

05.01.2022 25 Years of Service Award Our centre research manager Sia Athanasas was presented with a certificate and gift for 25 years of service to UQ at the beautiful heritage listed Customs House. Actually she has worked for UQ for 34 years with a 13 month break to have her first child back in 1994. Congratulations Sia!

04.01.2022 Martha is helping burns patients cope after their experience!

03.01.2022 WELCOME LUMINITA We welcomed Luminita Vlad to our research centre last week. Luminita will be managing all the Health Outcome Programs which encompass a suite of research studies investigating important issues such as faster diagnosis of microbes which cause life threat infections and how effective, personalised antimicrobial dosing can lead to faster recovery in adults and children.

01.01.2022 NATIONAL ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE FORUM Our forum is a great success! Doctors, researchers and scientists from around the world and Australia have converged on the RBWH campus to discuss the important dilemma of antimicrobial resistance. We were very privileged to have Prof Sara Cosgrove from the USA as our keynote speaker. Our BTCCRC was well represented at this forum. Well done to Prof Jason Roberts and Nermin Karamujic for bringing this all together!! Remember do not use antibiotics when you dont need to!

01.01.2022 WELCOME Cristina Sanches We warmly welcome Prof Cristina Sanches, a research pharmacist from the Federal University of Sao Joo del-Rei in Brazil. Prof Sanches will be trained in the design of drug dosing studies and modeling of anti-infectives using specialised software so she can set up similar studies at her university. A one dose fits all approach does not work in critically ill patients and so working out the best dosing is crucial to getting patients better sooner and in severe cases saving patients lives from life threatening infections. We wish you and your family a very fruitful and happy stay in Brisbane, Cristina.

01.01.2022 #AMR2019 Forum Podcast Our very own Dr Suzie Parker is giving a podcast this afternoon on her research into preventing antimicrobial resistance in babies and children. Watch this space for the link!