DrJames Price

Dr James Price graduated in Medicine from St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, in 2005. He undertook an Academic Foundation Programme in Infection where he begun his research in healthcare-associated infection. Following this James was awarded a Walport NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship during which he completed his PhD focusing on whole-genome sequencing to inform nosocomial S. aureus infection. In 2014 James was appointed as a NIHR Clinical Lecturer where he continued to develop his research in prevention of healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance. His publications have received over 700 citations and he has won the prestigious Barnett Christie Prize Lecture, the Royal College of Pathologists Research Medal in Microbiology and the ESCMID Young Investigators award. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and Trustee of the Healthcare Infection Society

James is a Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London where he is NHS lead for Population Health and Policy Theme within the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) for healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance. He continues to develops his research interests in application of data and novel technologies to inform prevention and prediction of healthcare-associated infection.

James currently works at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as Director of Infection Prevention and Control and Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology.