Dr Mandy Wootton

Mandy is currently Consultant Scientist/Operational manager of the Specialist Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Unit (SACU) in Public Health Wales, a unit providing an antibiotic resistance reference service to Wales. She has >20 years experience of susceptibility testing methods and resistance mechanisms. She is secretary of the BSAC susceptibility testing committee, providing educational workshops and conferences plus is an active participant in developing EUCAST methodology and guidelines for the European Development Laboratory (EDL). Prior to Cardiff she spent over 10 years in clinical research on antibiotics in Bristol, where she completed her PhD in glycopeptide resistance in S. aureus.