Dr James Price
Clinical Lecturer, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Dr James Price graduated in Medicine from St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London, in 2005. He undertook an Academic Foundation Programme in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology where he began his research in healthcare-associated infection. James was subsequently awarded a Walport NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship, during which he successfully completed a PhD in collaboration with UKCRC Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) Consortium based at the University of Oxford. His work included an evaluation of the utility of whole-genome sequencing to inform on Staphylococcus aureus infection in a healthcare setting. In 2014, James was appointed as a NIHR Clinical Lecturer, where he continues to develop his research in healthcare-associated S. aureus carriage and transmission.
James is currently an Infectious Diseases and Microbiology registrar in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery. He is also a member of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research Network at the Wellcome Trust Centre at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Through local and international collaborations, they aim to develop a research strategy to better understand AMR in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs). With a particular interest in pathogen transmission, James hopes this collaboration will lead to studies to help understand the movement of AMR organisms, which in turn may help optimise infection prevention methods in LMICs.