Derrick Crook MRCP, MRCPath

Professor Derrick Crook is currently Professor of Microbiology in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford University and is a practicing clinical microbiologist and infectious diseases physician at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. He studied Medicine at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; obtained the Diploma of Tropical Medicine (London), specialized in internal medicine at the University of Virginia, USA, and completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at the Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, USA. He obtained his boards in both internal medicine and infectious diseases. He trained in clinical microbiology at the John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford and obtained both his MRCP and MRCPath. He is co-director of the Oxford Biomedical Research, Infection Theme, and leads a large research consortium, Modernising Medical Microbiology, which focuses on translating whole pathogen sequencing into routine practice. The work aims to transform the practice of clinical microbiology, infectious diseases and communicable diseases through implementation of genome sequencing into Public Health England and the NHS.