Training
Postgraduate courses and workshops in Europe
11 - 12 April 2019
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Optimised dosing of antibiotics – understanding PK/PD, clinical breakpoints and therapeutic drug monitoring
3 - 4 June 2016
Tübingen, Germany
Individualized Medicine in Infectious Diseases: a Practical Approach
13 - 16 April 2016
Lyon, France
Population Modeling and Dose Optimization with Pmetrics and BestDose: Antimicrobial Applications
19 - 21 November 2015
Warsaw, Poland
Improving the Dosage of Old Antibiotics
Please note that there is a grant available to help attendance at this course with a deadline of September 1st. The registration deadline for this course is 5th October 2015.
5 - 6 November 2015
Ferney-Voltaire, France
Moving Antimicrobial Stewardship Forward in Special Population Settings
2 - 3 October 2014
Annecy, France
Postgraduate Education Course
Infection Management in the Elderly: A Wide Room for Improvement
6 - 8 October 2014
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Postgraduate Technical Workshop
Advanced Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Modelling and Simulation 
16 - 18 September 2014
Linz, Austria
Postgraduate Technical Workshop
3rd Workshop on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and Surveillance
4 - 6 July 2014
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Postgraduate Education Course
Bringing PK and PD in Fungal Infections into the Clinic
Course Coordinators
• Roger Brüggemann, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Joseph Meletiadis, Athens, Greece
• Ursula Theuretzbacher, Vienna, Austria
• Andrew J. Ullmann, Würzburg, Germany
Course Objectives
• To learn PK/PD principles of antifungal therapy
• To learn the pharmacokinetic differences among different patient populations
• To understand resistance mechanisms of fungi and their impact on antifungal treatment
• To learn how to use in vitro susceptibility data and to understand what breakpoints mean
• To explore the utility of therapeutic drug monitoring, the principles of dose adjustment, and how to optimize the therapy
• To understand the different clinical approaches of antifungal therapy and prophylaxis
• To learn how to apply antifungal stewardship in your centre
Faculty Members
| Roger Brüggemann, Nijmegen, The Netherlands | Joseph Meletiadis, Athens, Greece |
| Werner Heinz, Würzburg, Germany | Johan Mouton, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| William Hope, Liverpool, United Kingdom | Livio Pagano, Rome, Italy |
| Christine Imbert, Poitiers, France | Maurizio Sanguinetti, Rome, Italy |
| Evelyne Jacqz-Agrain, Paris, France | Ursula Theuretzbacher, Vienna, Austria |
| Johan Maertens, Leuven, Belgium | Andrew J. Ullmann, Würzburg, Germany |
| Oscar Marchetti, Lausanne, Switzerland | Paul Verweij, Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
The ESCMID PK/PD Study Group organized a 4-day technical workshop in Athens, Greece, Oct 8-11, 2012
A Statistical Approach to PK/PD Analysis in Practice
Course Coordinators
• Eleftheria Mavridou, Nijmegen, NL
• Joseph Meletiadis, Athens, GR
• Johan W. Mouton, Nijmegen, NL
Course Objectives
• Provide guidance on how to implement adequate statistical analysis to evaluate the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data
• Understand PK/PD indices, principles of CART analysis and how to apply these to establish
clinical breakpoints
• Learn how to perform univariate and multivariate analysis, linear and nonlinear regression
analysis, including the ins and outs of the Emax model
• To clarify the principles of pharmacokinetic parameters (peak and trough levels, volume of
distribution, area under the concentration curve) and the factors that affect them
• Explain how to perform compartmental and non-compartmental pharmacokinetic analysis
• Understand how to measure and analyse drug combination effects and how to determine
synergy and antagonism, including the Greco and Bliss models
• Perform analysis with different software programs
Faculty Members
• Saiden Abbas, Nijmegen, NL
• Roger Brüggemann, Nijmegen, NL
• William Hope, Manchester, UK
• Pavol Jancura, Nijmegen, NL
• Klaus Skovbo Jensen, Copenhagen, DK
• Eleftheria Mavridou, Nijmegen, NL
• Joseph Meletiadis, Athens, GR
• Johan W. Mouton, Nijmegen, NL
• Anouk E. Muller, Rotterdam, NL
• Ursula Theuretzbacher, Vienna, AT