Spriet, Isabel

Affiliation: 

University Hospitals Leuven

Country: 

Belgium

Current Status, Position

Prof Dr Isabel Spriet is Head of the Clinical Pharmacy Department in the Hospital Pharmacy of University Hospitals Leuven. She also is a part-time professor in the Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy group of the Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences of the University of Leuven.

Education

Prof Dr Isabel Spriet studied pharmacy at the University of Ghent, and became a licensed pharmacist in 2002. In 2003, she obtained her Master Degree in Hospital Pharmacy followed by a certificate in Clinical Pharmacy in 2004. In 2011, she obtained a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences for her work on clinical pharmacokinetics of antifungals in special patient populations.

Research Area

Prof Dr Isabel Spriet supervises a research group conducting research on the optimization of antibiotic dosing in special patient populations. Next to this, she also supervises research on the development of check of medication appropriateness as a back-office clinical validation service. Five PhDs were already completed successfully under her supervision, and three PhDs are ongoing.

Conflict of interest: none