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Drs. Jim Rhodes and Molly Steed join host Jeannette Bouchard to discuss all things related to optimal dosing of daptomycin. This podcast episode provides insight on why dosing matters with this antibiotic, especially with certain organisms (looking at you, _E. faecium_), why weight matters with dosing, and what that pesky CPK means.
References:
1. Fixed-dose daptomycin in Staphylococcus aureus: doi [10.1002/phar.4602](https://doi.org/10.1002/phar.4602)
2. High dose daptomycin for VRE: doi 10.1093/cid/ciw815
N. Jim Rhodes, PharmD, MSc, BCPS-AQ
Dr. Rhodes is currently an associate professor at Midwestern University, where he serves as a clinical and didactic instructor in infectious diseases therapeutics and clinical pharmacokinetics. In 2018, he joined the Midwestern University Pharmacometrics Center of Excellence. In 2020, he released a user interface for the Optimal Data Analysis Nonparametric Machine Learning Algorithm, which is available in R. In 2023, he became the Fellowship Director at Midwestern University College of Pharmacy, Downers Grove campus. He currently serves as the ID fellowship director at Midwestern University and is engaged in clinical translational research at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he practices clinically in acute care infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship. He actively participates in infectious diseases organizations, publication peer reviews, extramural funding reviews, and continuing education content for clinical pharmacy specialties.
Molly E. Steed, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP
Dr. Steed worked as an infectious diseases clinical pharmacy specialist and adjunct clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland before setting off to Wayne State University in Detroit, where she was able to complete an infectious diseases pharmacotherapy research fellowship in the anti-infective research laboratory under the tutelage of Dr. Michael Rybak. In addition to her translational laboratory research training, she also taught in the infectious diseases pharmacotherapy module at the College of Pharmacy and precepted pharmacy students, PGY1 Pharmacy Residents, and PGY2 Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Residents at the Detroit Medical Center. In 2011, she joined the faculty as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. In her current clinical practice site at the University of Kansas Medical Center, she is actively involved with the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and rounds with the infectious diseases physicians on the consult services.
