James Price BSc, MBBS, MRCP, PhD, FRCPath

James graduated in Medicine from St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, in 2005. He undertook an Academic Foundation Programme in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology where he began his research in healthcare-associated infection. Following on from this James was awarded a prestigious Walport NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship during which he successfully completed a PhD in collaboration with UKCRC Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) consortium based at the University of Oxford. His work included an evaluation of the utility of whole-genome sequencing to inform S. aureus infection in a healthcare setting.