Speakers

Mark is a Consultant Pharmacist Infectious Diseases within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and directs the Trust’s antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programme working with colleagues across the organisation to optimise therapeutics and care. He works closely with healthcare associated / surgical site infection and hospital epidemiological departments. He directs and leads the Trust’s outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) service and is the Division of Medicine and Integrated Care Infection Prevention and Control lead.

Mark is a fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and chairs its expert antimicrobial advisory group. He is a council member of British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and co-leads its UK OPAT Initiative. Mark has particular interests in antimicrobial stewardship around improving systems and processes that affect local, national and international AMR. His clinical interests include OPAT, tuberculosis and critical care.

He has delivered many lectures and workshops on AMS both at national and international level and has published around his areas of interest. He was awarded Professor of Practice from Imperial College London in November 2023.