Jane and Dan caught up with Professor Jason Roberts, NHMRC Practitioner Fellow at The University of Queensland and Consultant Clinical Pharmacist at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. Jason is a senior member of the Burns Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre within the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research and is Director of the Centre for Translational Anti-infective Pharmacodynamics in School of Pharmacy where he is also Chair of the research Strategies Committee.

We could have talked to Jason all day. In part one of our two-part discussion on pharmacokinetic modelling of antimicrobials we talk about:

• Jason's pathway to a research career and the projects that his team are currently working on
• The patients and pathogens that benefit from individualised dosing of antimicrobials
• The narrowing therapeutic indices of some antimicrobials
• Some under-recognised adverse effects of beta-lactam antibiotics
• how to apply pharmacokinetics and individualised dosing in everyday practice