Charlotte Sriruttan MBBCh, FCPath(Micro)

Charlotte Sriruttan is a clinical microbiologist who has worked in public and private sector routine diagnostic laboratory services since qualifying in 2009: the past 4 years with a specific focus on fungal laboratory diagnostics and education, public health and implementation science. Currently she is the study co-ordinator for the cryptococcal screening programme at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in Johannesburg, where she leads a project team of five grant-funded research staff. She is affliated to the NICD mycology reference laboratory which has extensive experience in phenotypic, non-culture based assays and molecular mycology diagnostic techniques. More recently she asisted with the development of an online mycology course in direct microscopy at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.