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Professor Robert Read
Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Sheffield

Robert Read is Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases to the Central Sheffield University Hospitals. He is Chairman of the Professional Affairs Committee and Executive member of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Infection. Professor Read is also a member of Department of Health advisory groups on HIV and Infectious Diseases as well as the advisory group on Biologicals and Vaccines. Professor Read is a member of the Chief Medical Officers Working Group on Pandemic Influenza. He co-authored the HPA/BTS/BIS Pandemic Influenza Clinical Guidelines and the joint BIS/BTS/HPA guidelines for the management of SARS.

Professor Read has an active research programme focussing on bacterial pathogenesis and vaccine development/evaluation.

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