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Stephen H. Gillespie is the professor of Medicine at the University of St Andrews. He trained in Medicine at the Queens University Belfast with postgraduate training in Northern Ireland and later as Mercer's Lecturer in Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was appointed senior lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and subsequently professor. During this time, he led the clinical microbiology service for 16 years and subsequently served as the Regional Microbiologist for the Health Protection Agency for 6 years. In 2010, he was appointed the foundation Sir James Black Professor of Medicine at the University of St Andrews in 2010.
His research focusses on all aspects of tuberculosis diagnosis and drug development. He has led multiple clinical trials to shorten tuberculosis treatment. He holds several patents for rapid drug susceptibility testing methodologies and has developed rapid molecular methods to measure and quantify the number of live organisms in patient samples.
He has published more than 300 research papers and had authored or edited 15 books in microbiology, infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance research.
Kathleen B. Bamford is a consultant medical microbiologist at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro. She trained in medicine at the Queen's University Belfast with postgraduate training in Northern Ireland. She was appointed as a senior lecturer at the Queens University Belfast and spent a sabbatical year in the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas. Following 20 years as senior lecture, then Reader at Imperial College London and then as a consultant microbiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, she worked for a year at the Hillingdon Hospital before moving to Cornwall in 2019. She has a broad clinical experience in all aspects of medical microbiology, infection prevention and control, and has contributed nationally to training, advisory and regulatory roles.
Her research interests have included mucosal infection and immunology, epidemiology, healthcare‐associated infection and antimicrobial resistance with publications in each of these areas. She remains committed to improving health by addressing the interactions between humans and the microbial world.
