Dr Gavin Barlow

Consultant/Senior Lecturer in Infection, Hull University Teaching Hospitals/Hull York Medical School/University of York

Gavin Barlow, Consultant in Infection, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Hon. Senior Clinical Lecturer, Centre for Immunology and Infection, Hull York Medical School and University of York.

GB qualified in Medicine at Leicester University in 1993 and trained in infectious diseases and general internal medicine in Leeds, Sheffield and Dundee, including a two-year research training fellowship at the University of Dundee. GB’s main clinical interests are orthopaedic infection, outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT), antimicrobial stewardship, and the management of complex bacterial and healthcare-associated infections.

Research interests are broad, but predominantly focus on the epidemiology and clinical care of infections commonly managed in the NHS. He has recently been appointed to Senior Lecturer in Infection at the University of York (from 1st July 2019). GB was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, London in 2009 and is the outgoing British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) Officer for Stewardship and Surveillance and inaugural research editor of JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance.