Founder and Senior Advisor
E-mail: otto.cars@medsci.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 66 05
Otto Cars is an MD and a specialist in infectious diseases . He was the head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Uppsala University Hospital 1991-1999.
In 2003, he became Professor of Infectious Diseases at Uppsala University. His research has focused on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of antibiotics, optimal antibiotic dosing regimens, resistance epidemiology and antibiotic policies. He was one of the founders and the second president of the International Society of Anti-infective pharmacology (ISAP).
Otto Cars was leading the Swedish strategic programme against antimicrobial resistance (Strama) on behalf of the Swedish government between 1995- 2010. He has served as an expert to the World Health Organization and several European Agencies and was as a member of the UN ad hoc Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (IACG). In 2013, he coordinated the Lancet Infectious Disease commission “Antibiotic Resistance – the need for global solutions “.
Otto Cars was the founding director of ReAct in 2005, and is since 2013 a Senior Advisor.