Exploring the Microbiome with Professor Riley Clostridium difficile and One Health

Thursday, February 20 · 11:30am - 12pm CET

Don Whitley rolled out a series of microbiome focussed talks that will be no longer than half an hour in length. These will also be recorded individually and after each event a link will be sent out to those who signed up. They now continue their series with a talk from Professor Thomas Riley: Clostridium difficile and One Health.

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Professor Thomas Riley:
BAppSc Curtin, MAppEpid ANU, PhD UWA
FASM, FRCPath, FAAM, FSHEA, FFSc(RCPA)
School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine (WA)

Tom divides his time in Perth, Western Australia, between PathWest Laboratory Medicine, WA’s public sector pathology service provider where he is a Senior Clinical Scientist, and The University of Western Australia where he is a Professor in the School of Biomedical Scienes, with Adjunct positions at most other Western Australian universities. He has had a long-standing interest in healthcare-related infections, particularly the diagnosis, pathogenesis and epidemiology of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, the Australian Society for Microbiology, the American Academy of Microbiology, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Faculty of Science of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and has published >450 book chapters and refereed journal articles, including >250 on C. difficile.