Fiona Carragher MSc FRCPath EuSpLM CSci FHCS(Hon) Fiona is the Deputy Chief Scientific Officer for England, supporting the head of profession for the 50,000 healthcare science workforce in the NHS and associated bodies. A significant part of Fiona’s role involves working across government, with system partners and other external stakeholders to inform policy, influence legislation,...
Karen is currently employed as Infection Prevention and Control Lead for Public Health England’s Antimicrobial Resistance Programme working closely with NHS Improvement in the delivery of the ambition to halve healthcare associated Gram-negative blood stream infections by 2021. She has worked in Infection Prevention and Control for 20 years in a variety of roles...
Philip is Consultant Pharmacist in Antimicrobials at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, AMR Project Lead at NHS-Improvement and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Leeds University. He is a spokesman for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on Antimicrobials, and for the charity Antibiotic-Action. He was a member of the Dept of Health ARHAI Antimicrobial Stewardship Group...
Oluwaseun Ogunbuyide popularly known as ‘Olu’ currently works as Project Manager on the Nottinghamshire To Dip or Not to Dip Project. My role is to carry out a successful pilot and implementation of the To Dip or Not to Dip project in each of the 5 Nottinghamshire County CCGs (Mansfield & Ashfield, Nottingham West, Nottingham North East,...
Julia has 35 years’ experience as a registered nurse. She has worked in Urology since appointment as a surgical ward sister in 1990. She completed her MSc in Health Practice in 2007 and following this registered as a Non-Medical Prescriber. Her appointed as a Consultant nurse in Urology in 2007 led to the development and...
Abid is a Medical Microbiologist based in the Public Health Laboratory Birmingham, Public Health England. He is currently the Director of Infection Prevention and Control at the Heart of England Foundation Trust. His areas of interest include the diagnosis and management of infections in the immunocompromised host. Abid’s current research projects include novel interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance, the...
Dr Kordo Saeed is a Consultant Microbiologist at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at University of Southampton Medical School. Currently, Dr Saeed’s is leading an evaluation of pro-adrenomedullin, procalcitonin and other biomarkers/ clinical parameters and their impact on patient management, avoid admission, sepsis recognition and antibiotic stewardship in six...
David has been a specialist antimicrobial pharmacist since 2008. Has been the chair of the East of England antimicrobial pharmacists group and written a number of papers in peer reviewed journals on this specialist area. David had an 18 month secondment at Public Health England where he managed two different projects. The first involved the...
Emma Cramp is a national project lead for antimicrobial resistance and healthcare acquired infections within the Patient Safety Team at NHS Improvement alongside Philip Howard and Elizabeth Beech. She also works as an antimicrobial pharmacist at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and has spent the last 9 years working within secondary care. Emma is...
In 2006 Louisa achieved her BSc hons in Adult Nursing at Oxford Brookes University working predominantly at the John Radcliffe Hospital. Her early career included the Trauma and Orthopaedic Unit and the Medical Assessment Unit at The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. In 2010 she relocated to Portsmouth and progressed to an Emergency Department senior...