Kevin J. Downes, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Kevin Downes is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is faculty of the Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness and the Center for Clinical Pharmacology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. His research interests include pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling of antibiotics in children, the pharmacoepidemiology of antimicrobials in pediatrics, and the role of acute kidney injury and sepsis biomarkers in the management of critically ill children.

Disclosure: Merck: Grant/Research Support, Research Grant
Pfizer: Grant/Research Support

Presentation(s):

• 58 - Procalcitonin as a Marker for Sepsis - A Useful Test or the Best We Have?

  Thursday, October 3
  10:30 AM – 10:55 AM

• 25 - Help or Hype? Update on Biomarkers in Management of Adult and Pediatric Infectious Diseases

  Thursday, October 3
  10:30 AM – 11:45 AM