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Katherine Plewes

Clinical Assistant Professor
Academic Appointment
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Focus
Infections
Degrees / Designations

M.Sc., MD, DTMH, D.Phil., FRCPC

Contact Info
id.med.ubc.ca/
katherine.plewes@vch.ca
604-875-4588

Biography

Dr. Katherine Plewes is a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, with research interests in malaria and tropical diseases. She completed the UBC Clinical Investigator Program and obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford focused on the pathophysiology of malaria. She continues to work with an international and multidisciplinary team at the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit located in Bangkok, Thailand, focused on the pathophysiology and treatment of severe malaria and the causes of fever and antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial pathogens causing fever in low- and middle-income settings. She has extensive field experience, currently working on active projects in Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

In 2019, Dr. Plewes was awarded a three-year Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Health Professional-Investigator award to assess the renoprotective role of acetaminophen in severe pediatric malaria. She is co-director of the UBC Tropical and Geographic Medicine Intensive Short Course, and Vancouver site lead for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network, a global network that conducts surveillance of emerging infectious diseases using returning travelers as sentinels of infection. She also represents B.C. as a committee member to the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Canadian Advisory on Tropical Medicine and Travel, and designate B.C. physician to the PHAC Canadian Malaria Network.

Publications

  • Kidney international reports -

    An Evaluation of Commonly Used Surrogate Baseline Creatinine Values to Classify AKI During Acute Infection.

    Cooper DJ, Plewes K, Grigg MJ, Patel A, Rajahram GS, William T, Hiemstra TF, Wang Z, Barber BE, Anstey NM
  • Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy -

    Epidemiological and Clinical Characteristics of International Travelers with Enteric Fever and Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Their Isolates: a GeoSentinel Analysis.

    Hagmann SHF, Angelo KM, Huits R, Plewes K, Eperon G, Grobusch MP, McCarthy A, Libman M, Caumes E, Leung DT, Asgeirsson H, Jensenius M, Schwartz E, Sánchez-Montalvá A, Kelly P, Pandey P, Leder K, Bourque DL, Yoshimura Y, Mockenhaupt FP, van Genderen PJJ, Odolini S, Schlagenhauf P, Connor BA, Hamer DH
  • Journal of travel medicine -

    Traveller exposures to animals: a GeoSentinel analysis.

    Muehlenbein MP, Angelo KM, Schlagenhauf P, Chen L, Grobusch MP, Gautret P, Duvignaud A, Chappuis F, Kain KC, Bottieau E, Epelboin L, Shaw M, Hynes N, Hamer DH,
  • The Journal of infectious diseases -

    Reduced Cardiac Index Reserve and Hypovolemia in Severe Falciparum Malaria.

    Kingston HWF, Ghose A, Rungpradubvong V, Satitthummanid S, Herdman MT, Plewes K, Leopold SJ, Ishioka H, Mohanty S, Maude RJ, Schultz MJ, Lagrand WK, Hossain MA, Day NPJ, White NJ, Anstey NM, Dondorp AM
  • The Journal of infectious diseases -

    Associations Between Restrictive Fluid Management and Renal Function and Tissue Perfusion in Adults With Severe Falciparum Malaria: A Prospective Observational Study.

    Ishioka H, Plewes K, Pattnaik R, Kingston HWF, Leopold SJ, Herdman MT, Mahanta K, Mohanty A, Dey C, Alam S, Srinamon K, Mohanty A, Maude RJ, White NJ, Day NPJ, Hossain MA, Faiz MA, Charunwatthana P, Mohanty S, Ghose A, Dondorp AM
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