De-labelling penicillin as part of an AMS program

Biography:

Associate Professor Jason Trubiano is an Infectious Diseases Physician and Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Antibiotic Allergy at Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia. Dr Trubiano is a current NHMRC Early Career Fellow and recent Postdoctoral Fellow for the National Centre for Infections in Cancer, exploring antibiotic allergy health services and novel diagnostics.  His infectious diseases physician training was undertaken in Melbourne and undertook a PhD at the University of Melbourne entitled – The Impact of Antibiotic Allergy Testing on Antimicrobial Stewardship. In collaboration with Murdoch University (Perth, AUS) and Vanderbilt University Medical Centre (Nashville, USA) he is developing ex vivo T cell diagnostics that aid the assigning of drug causality in cases of antibiotic-associated severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions. His clinical and health services research centres on developing multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship-led antibiotic allergy testing programs to reduce antimicrobial resistance.