Peggy S McKinnon
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Missouri, USA

Peggy S McKinnon, PharmD, is a Clinical Pharmacist in Clinical Research and Infectious Diseases at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Missouri, USA. Before this she was a Clinical Specialist in Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy at the Detroit Receiving Hospital and University Health Center, Department of Pharmacy Services, Detroit, Michigan, USA. She remains Director of Outcomes Research for the Anti-Infective Research Laboratory at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.

Dr McKinnon is a member of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP), the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, (SHEA) and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). Her research interests include pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of therapies to treat infections, and pharmacoeconomics of antimicrobial use and resistance. She is also involved with outcome measures in patients with various infectious diseases.

Dr McKinnon serves on the editorial board of the textbook Antimicrobial Therapy and Vaccines and the journals Pharmacoeconomics [ADIS International] and Pharmacoeconomics: Infectious Diseases. She also serves as a reviewer for the journals JAMA, Pharmacotherapy, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, and Archives of Surgery.

Dr McKinnon is the author of many papers on antibiotic use, epidemiology and impact of bacterial resistance and cost-effectiveness, and has given presentations on these topics at many national and international meetings.