Joost Wauters

Professor Joost Wauters (°1972, MD, PhD) studied civil engineering and medicine, and specialized in internal medicine, emergency and intensive care medicine. Since 2011, he is ICU physician and full staff member at the Medical ICU of the University Hospitals Leuven and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Leuven (Belgium). His main research activities are about severe infections in critically ill patients and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) of antimicrobials in ICU. As a research team leader on viral-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (IAPA/CAPA), he is international speaker and PI of several international multicenter studies and he is member of several (inter)national scientific ICU and ID societies.