Professor Alison Holmes OBE is the David Price Evans Chair of Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Liverpool and the past President of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. Alison is the Director of CAMO-Net and Director of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and AMR. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator and is an infectious diseases physician by background, with an extensive clinical track record in infectious diseases management. Alison has longstanding experience in NHS leadership roles, particularly in addressing the prevention of infection and the improving the use of antimicrobials. Alison’s research interests include the improved management and prevention of infections globally, particularly focusing on the optimising of antimicrobial use through better use of data, infection prevention, the integration of social sciences, the development and application of innovative approaches and technologies for improved diagnostics, precision medicine and clinical outcomes. Professor William Hope OBE is Professor of Therapeutics and Infectious Diseases and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research at the University of Liverpool in the UK. He is co-lead of NIHR Infectious Diseases National Specialty Group in the UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. William leads the Antimicrobial Pharmacodynamics and Therapeutics Group at Liverpool, which provides the pharmacodynamic packages for new antibiotics. Areas of special interest and research are antimicrobial pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, antimicrobial drug development and individualisation of antimicrobial therapy. William is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
Professor Alison Holmes OBE
CAMO-Net Lead
Professor William Hope OBE
CAMO-Net UK Co-Lead