The NAPS is a targeted deep dive audit into the quality of antimicrobial prescribing in the hospital and aged care setting. Deveolped at NCAS and the Royal Melbourne Hospital the NAPS can be performed in a range of settings; Hospital, Aged Care, Surgical, QI and now the NCIC co-developed Antifungal NAPS.
Professor Graeme Forrest
Professor of Medicine within the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rush University Medical Center, working with the Transplant Infectious Disease team.
Prof Forrest graduated from The University of Adelaide, Australia in 1990. His Internal Medicine Residency was at Columbus Hospital in Chicago, with Chief Resident year at St Joseph Hospital in Chicago. His Infectious Disease fellowship was at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where he continued as faculty working on the Transplant Infectious Disease service as well as director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship program. He then moved to the VA Portland Healthcare System and Oregon Health and Science University to continue work on Antimicrobial Stewardship and Transplant Infectious Diseases, where he worked for 12 years until moving to Rush University in Chicago.
His work has focused on fungal infection in transplant recipients, including Cryptococcus gattii and moulds. Reducing antibiotic resistance with effective antibiotic stewardship in transplant recipients has also been a major focus. He have over 80 publications, 100 abstracts and 7 book chapters.