Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Kay A Saunders

Dr Kay A Saunders

Senior Lecturer

Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

kay.saunders@port.ac.uk

Profile

Internal memberships / posts

School Library Representative

School Disability Officer

Facilitator for inter-professional learning

External memberships / posts

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute

Key teaching responsibilities  

Level 2:  Introduction to microbiology and microbial pathogenicity

Level 3: Antimicrobial chemotherapy - theory and practice, antimicrobial resistance, development and marketing of antimicrobials, management of infectious diseases, aseptic suite training.

Key research interests  

Drug lifecycle management, antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial surveillance, data mining.

Recent Publications

 

More recent publications

Publications before 2008

Koeth LM, Jacobs MR, Good CE, Bajaksouzian S, Windau A, Jakielaszek C & Saunders KA, Comparative in vitro activity of a pharmacokinetically enhanced oral formulation of amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (2000/125 mg twice daily) against 9,172 respiratory isolates collected worldwide in 2000, Int. J. Infectious Diseases, 8, 362-373, 2004.

Koeth LM, Good CE, Saunders KA & Jakielaszek C, S. pneumoniae in vitro development of resistance to amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, cefaclor, levofloxacin and azithromycin. Int. J. Antimicrobial Agents, 24, 144-149, 2004.

Bouchillon SK, Hoban DJ, Johnson JL, Johnson BM, Butler DL, Saunders KA, Miller MA, Poupard JA, In vitro activity of gemifloxacin and contemporary oral antimicrobial agents against 27247 Gram positive and Gram negative aerobic isolates: a global surveillance study, Int. J. Antimicrobial Agents, 23, 181-196, 2004.

Hoban DJ, Bouchillon SK, Johnson JL, Zhanel GG, Butler DL, Saunders KA, Miller LA & Poupard JA, Comparative in vitro surveillance study of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid and four oral comparators against 21,232 recent clinical isolates from Europe, Eur. J. Clin. Micro. Infectious Diseases, 22, 261-267, 2003.

Hoban DJ, Bouchillon SK, Johnson JL, Zhanel GG, Butler DL, Saunders KA, Miller LA & Poupard JA, Comparative in vitro potency of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid and four oral agents against recent North American clinical isolates from a global surveillance study, Int. J. Antimicrobial Agents, 21, 425-433, 2003.