Jan De Waele

Jan is a surgical intensivist at the Department of Critical Care Medicine of the Ghent University Hospital, a full professor of Medicine at Ghent University, and a Senior Clinical Investigator with the Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium. His research activities currently deal with optimizing antibiotic therapy in severely ill infected patients to improve outcomes and combat resistance development, with specific interest in PK/PD, therapeutic drug monitoring of antibiotics as well as antimicrobial stewardship. Clinical interests also include abdominal infections, source control, and sepsis management. He is the past chairman of the ESICM Research Committee (2018-2021), and the 2022-2024 ESICM President-Elect.