Module leaders

Dr Sanjay Patel 
Dr Sanjay Patel is a paediatric infectious diseases and immunology consultant working at Southampton Children’s Hospital. 

Dr Patel is part of UHS’s paediatric immunology and infectious diseases team, who support and advise on antibiotic management for all children and babies treated in Southampton as inpatients. They become more involved with the care of children in hospital when an infection is complicated or difficult to treat, or when there is a diagnostic dilemma. The team of three consultants is also responsible for overseeing children receiving antibiotics at home.

Dr Aubrey Cunnington
Dr Aubrey Cunnington is the Head of the Section and Reader in Paediatric Infectious Disease, and also an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. His research focuses on the interactions between hosts and pathogens which result in severe infectious diseases, particularly severe malaria. Aubrey is interested in understanding why some people get very ill and die from malaria, whilst others have a less severe illness.

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