106 - Linezolid Dosing: Can Less Be More?

Friday, October 13, 2023

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US ET

Location: 153 ABC

All relevant financial disclosures have been mitigated.

Moderator(s)

Yohei Doi, MD, PHD

Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Julie Ann Justo, PharmD, MS, FIDSA, BCPS (she/her/hers)

Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacist
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH, United States

Faculty(s)

Pier Giorgio Cojutti, MD PhD (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

Slides
Yasuhiro Tsuji, PhD

Professor
School of Pharmacy / Nihon University
Funabashi, Chiba, Japan

Slides

Disclosure(s):

Yohei Doi, MD, PHD: bioMerieux: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); FujiFilm: Advisor/Consultant (Terminated, December 31, 2022); Gilead Biosciences: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing), Honoraria (Ongoing); GSK: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd.: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); Moderna: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing), Honoraria (Ongoing); MSD Sharp & Dohme: Advisor/Consultant (Terminated, December 31, 2022), Honoraria (Terminated, December 31, 2022); Shionogi: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing), Honoraria (Ongoing)

Julie Ann Justo, PharmD, MS, FIDSA, BCPS: Gilead Sciences: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); Shionogi: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); Vaxart: Stocks/Bonds (Ongoing)

CME Credits: Maximum of 1 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1 hours of MOC Credit
CNE Credits: Maximum of 1 hours of ANCC Credit
ACPE Credits: ACPE 1 knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: JA0007082-0000-23-002-L01-P

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

recognize the pharmacokinetics of linezolid;
analyze the role of linezolid therapeutic drug monitoring;
describe the potential benefits and risks of low-dose linezolid

Presentations:

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM US ET

Ten Years of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring: Time to Face the Numbers
Speaker: Pier Giorgio Cojutti, MD PhD (he/him/his) – University of Bologna
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM US ET

Target Concentration Intervention Strategy for Linezolid to Improve Safety
Speaker: Yasuhiro Tsuji, PhD – School of Pharmacy / Nihon University