JPIAMR 13th Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: NHS Tayside, Honorary researcher University of Dundee
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Research area

• Scientific area(s):
  1. Understand the impact of interventions on development and transmission of AMR
  2. Design, implement, evaluate, and compare innovative interventions to control the development and transmission of AMR
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health Animal Health Environment

• Keywords:

  microbiology; infection control; rapid diagnostics

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I am an NHS Consultant in Microbiology based in Dundee, UK with experience in the application of rapid molecular diagnostics within routine clinical pathways. I have used innovative data analysis to understand the epidemiology of HAIs using eHealth data covering approximately 20% of the Scottish population. I also have experience using sequencing approaches to aid Public Health and healthcare outbreak investigations. We have a bacterial isolate collection dating back to 1999, which contains almost 100,000 isolates providing a source of surveillance data from bacteraemia and respiratory infections throughout the UK and Ireland. I also have experience in assessing combinations of drugs against CPOs.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  I would be very interested to hear from any projects looking at rapid diagnostics, use of big data, genomics etc.

Ben Parcell

• Organisation: NHS Tayside, Honorary researcher University of Dundee
• Position: Consultant in Microbiology
• E-mail: benjamin.parcell@nhs.scot