Research
External collaborations
University of Auckland, Professor John Fraser and Dr Thomas Proft. 2001 -
Fellowships
GSK Endowment, Senior Clinical Fellowship. 2002 -
Guest lectures
Puerperal Sepsis -a historical perpsective. Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), Philadelphia. Oct 2009.
Invasive group A streptococcal pathogenesis: a bedside to bench approach. European Conference on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Helsinki, Finland. May 2009.
Intravenous immunoglobulin in sepsis- an update. Intensive Care Society, Annual WOnter Meeting, London. Dec 2008.
Exotoxins, Superantigens and Gram positive Sepsis. 5th Annual ISS Colloquium on The Host Pathogen Response in Sepsis, Madrid. May 2006.
SpyCEP and Specific C-terminal cleavage and inactivation of Interleukin-8. Lancefield International Symposium on Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases (LISSSD), Cairns, Australia. 2005.
Terminally Digested: A Novel GAS Strategy. International Conference on Current Global Perspectives in the field of Streptococcal and Pneumococcal Infections, HPA, Colindale, UK. 2005.
Group A Streptococci: Novel Strategies for Defence. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute,, Vienna. 2004.
The Flesh-eating bacterium returns. University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. 2004.
Group A streptococcus: new virulence attributes of a flesh eating pathogen. Society for General Microbiology Annual Meeting, Edinburgh. 2003.
Bacterial Superantigens. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. 2003.
Invasive group A streptococcal infections and the role of superantigens. Health Protection Agency StrepEURO symposium, Colindale, UK. 2003.
Update in Streptococcal Virulence. University of Oxford, Dept Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Oxford, UK. 2002.
Bacterial Toxins: an update. Federation of Infection Societies (FIS) Annual Conference, Manchester. 2002.
Superantigens and Streptococcal Disease. ESCMID/ECCMID (European Conference on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease), Istanbul. 2001.
Humanized Models for Gram Positive Sepsis. 5th World Congress on Trauma, Shock, Inflammation, and Sepsis, Munich. 2000.
Superantigens; friend or foe?. University of Ulm, Germany. 2000.
An Evidence-Based Approach to Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections. Federation of Infection Societies (FIS) Annual Conference, Manchester. 1999.
Editorial boards
Clinical and Experimental Immunology.
