Jan De Waele is a surgery-trained intensivist at the dept. of Intensive Care Medicine of the Ghent University Hospital, full professor at Ghent University and Senior Clinical Investigator at the Flanders Research Foundation. His research activities focus on optimizing antibiotic therapy in severely ill infected patients, with specific interest in PK/PD, therapeutic drug monitoring of antibiotics as well as antimicrobial stewardship. Interests also include abdominal infections, source control and sepsis management. He serves as the 2024-2026 ESICM President.

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8:30 - Precision antibiotic therapy in sepsis and septic shock by