51st Topics in Infection

Friday 30 January, 8:30AM - 18:30PM GMT | Goodenough College, London House, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N 2AB

Register for your place at the next RSTMH Topics in Infection meeting this month: https://www.rstmh.org/events/51st-topics-in-infection

Now in its fifty-first year, Topics in Infection will take place in person in London and will include a drinks reception. This annual one-day meeting, is delivered as a partnership between RSTMH and the UK Health Security Agency. It will bring together microbiologists, infectious disease physicians, infection control personnel and biomedical and clinical scientists to hear updates on recent "hot topics" in all aspects of infectious disease.

The programme for this meeting has been awarded 6 CPD credits.

Speakers include:

Professor Naomi Allen, Chief Scientist for UK Biobank and Professor of Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Alicia Demirjian, Consultant Epidemiologist and Clinical Lead for Antimicrobial Resistance and Prescribing, UK Health Security Agency, and Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Tom Evans, Professor of Molecular Microbiology at the University of Glasgow and a Consultant in Infectious Disease and General Medicine for Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board
Mike Fell OBE, Director of National Cyber Security Operations, NHS England
Professor Joe Jarvis, Professor of Tropical Medicine and International Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Research Associate at Botswana Harvard Health Partnership
Professor Paul Heath, Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases at City St George's University of London
Dr Manjula Meda, Consultant Microbiologist at Frimley Health NHS Foundation
Professor Marc Turner, Director of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service
Dr Helen Roberts, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Chair of the Human-Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance (HAIRS) group
Dr Julian Sutton, Consultant in Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology, Clinical Lead, Department of Infection, Lead Infection Control Doctor, and Co-Care Group Clinical Lead, Specialist and Inpatient Medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust