You are warmly invited to the Inaugural Lecture of?Professor Tristan Clark?in the Faculty of Medicine.
Title: Something is happening here, and you don’t know what it is: the true value of Point-of-Care testing for infection.
Date: Thursday 17 July 2025
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Level B, South Academic Block, BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 General Hospital / Online
Timing: Lecture from 17:15
About the event
Tristan Clark is Professor and Honorary consultant in Infectious Diseases at the University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 and University Hospitals BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 NHS trust. His research involves the assessment of novel rapid diagnostic tests for infection. He has been an NIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowship holder and has been awarded grant funding from NIHR, Research Councils, and the EU and has strong links with the diagnostics industry. He has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals including New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet series journals. During the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 pandemic he was scientific advisor to the UK Department of Health and Social Care on rapid diagnostic testing. He is a member of the British Infection Association Scientific Affairs Committee, an Editor for Journal of Infection, a panel member of the NIHR Doctoral Fellowship selection committee and a council member for the International Society for Respiratory Viruses. His research aims to improve patient outcomes and experience through the evidence-based use of rapid diagnostics.
Synopsis of presentation
In his lecture Tristan Clark will describe his personal journey to becoming Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载. This will include his time as a medical student at BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 and his clinical training in various locations, including his time with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Africa. He will also describe his academic journey, starting off with performing Avian influenza vaccine trials whilst undertaking clinical Infectious Diseases training in Leicester, and then designing and performing Point-of-Care test impact trials here in BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载. He will summarise the research he and his team have done to date including during the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact that rapid testing has had both locally and nationally. He will talk about and thank all the people that have been involved in the research so far and will conclude the lecture by discussing his predictions about the future of Point-of-Care tests for infection.
Online registration closes at 15.00 on Wednesday 16 July 2025.?A link to access the online event will be sent to those registered the day before the event.
Please email medevent@soton.ac.uk with any queries.