Jon Friedland

Professor Jon Friedland is Co-director, with Professor Alison Holmes, of the Centre for Infection Prevention and Management.  He is also responsible for directing work-stream 4 of the Centre which aims to build capacity in infection by providing multi-disciplinary education and training.

Infection does not recognise healthcare delivery barriers and so in order to develop a skilled workforce that will pioneer new models of infection prevention and control it is necessary to develop new and novel programmes. Many of these are being developed in close collaboration with other stakeholders in Infection Prevention, including the Health Protection Agency and will range from short courses for clinicians and professions allied to medicine, to PhD programmes for medical staff and managers.

As well as overseeing the educational training initiatives, Jon is also working with others as part of this work-stream to develop and embed infection prevention within the national medical culture and framework by ensuring it is covered appropriately in continued professional development and Royal College examinations.    

Background

Prof Jon Friedland is Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunity at Imperial College London and lead clinician for Infection with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.  He i currently President of the British Infection Society and a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation and the Chief Medical Officer’s National Expert Panel on New and Emerging Infections

His research interests focus on two main areas; the innate immune response and  role of matrix metalloproteinase’s in the immunopathology of tuberculosis and the development of novel diagnostics for tuberculosis. In 2005, Jon Friedland was awarded the Royal College of Physicians Weber-Parkes Prize Medal for research in tuberculosis.