Katie Jeffery

Katie is a Consultant in Clinical Infection, Infection Control Doctor and Director of Infection Prevention and Control at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Professor of Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology at Oxford University.  Her clinical interests are prevention of healthcare associated infection, point of care testing, molecular diagnosis, neurological infection, antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship, and infections in the immunocompromised host.  She has published over 150 peer reviewed articles, most recently on various aspects of SARS-CoV-2 infection including diagnostics, clinical management and infection prevention and control. 

She is the recent past President of the British Infection Association, and member of various national committees including the Infectious Diseases Clinical Reference Group and NERVTAG.