FACULTY

De Waele J.

Prof. Jan De Waele is a surgery-trained intensivist with a specific interest in infections in critically ill patients and works at the surgical ICU of the Ghent University Hospital in Belgium. Clinical interests include infections in the critically ill, multidrug resistance and abdominal catastrophes such as the abdominal compartment syndrome. His research activities currently focus on optimizing antibiotic therapy in severely ill infected patients to improve outcome and combat resistance development. Dr De Waele was appointed Full Professor in Medicine in 2020. He holds a Sr. Clinical Investigator Fellowship Grant from the Research Foundation Flanders to investigate optimization of antibiotic therapy in critically ill patients and has authored or co-authored over 300 journal articles and book chapters.