the Bristol Royal Infirmary. Prior to becoming the Vice President, I was the Meetings Secretary both as a trainee (2014 and 2016) and consultant (2019-2022). I sit on the Federation of Infection Societies conference organising committee, clinical services committee and the scientific committee. I represent BIA on the UKHSA EUSPAR oversight group and the RCP sustainability group. I helped establish the Intensive Care Society/BIA working group. the My interests are adult vaccines, sustainability, and tuberculosis.

I became the BIA guidelines secretary in 2016 and held that role until 2022, producing BIA guidelines and responding to UK NICE guidelines . Since 2022 I have been BIA workforce secretary and working to try to define and improve the number of national training grade positions in the UK. I have also represented us with both Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Pathologists and am a fellow of both colleges so I hope well placed to represent our members across microbiology, infectious diseases and general medicine.

Public Health Wales at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. I have been a Principal Officer of the BIA as Honorary Secretary since May 2021 and additionally represent the BIA on the Joint Specialty Committee for Infection and RCP Sustainability in Healthcare and Climate Change Advisory Group. I have an interest in education and training and am TPD for Microbiology in Wales, the chair for the RCPath College Specialty Training Committee in Medical Microbiology/Virology and the co-chair for the JRCPTB SAC for Combined Infection Training.  My clinical and research interests include bone and joint infections, anaerobic infections, and infections in renal and transplant.

My previous experience, prior to taking up this appointment, included being a medical officer and flying doctor in Zambia. Then a circuitous route of training and working in London, Dublin, Manchester and Newcastle finally led me to the wonderful city of Hull.

My interests are in HIV Medicine and Chronic Fatigue syndrome. I chair the regional HIV Network (North and East Yorkshire) and am Lead for the regional CFS services. In 2009-201!, I was Professional Affairs secretary for the BIA. Then, subsequently from 2017-2020 the Meetings Secretary, and since 2021 I have been the Honorary Treasurer for the Association. I am Host, Chair and am an International Examiner for the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians for the MRCP PACES examination. I balance my clinical and professional life by being a golfer (of dubious ability), a freemason (of dedicated commitment) and a follower of English cricket ( with dismayed apprehension).

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

As the BIA Meetings Secretary I am one of the Principal Officers of the BIA and lead on the organisation of the Annual Scientific meeting, the BIA Dilemmas day and sit on the Federation of Infection Societies Programme Steering Committee.

I was previously the BIA trainee meetings secretary between 2011 and 2014. My clinical and research interests are in neurological infections and mycobacterial infections. I am also a training lead within my trust and a regional academic SuppoRTT champion for trainees returning to clinical work after time out for research.

Based in Sheffield

Bee Yean Ng is an enthusiastic and highly motivated Specialist Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Pharmacist with a strong focus on global health. She led the implementation of the NIHR-funded ‘Spurious Penicillin Allergy in Secondary Care’ (SPACE) study at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As a Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England’s Global Health Fellow and recipient of the Das Pillay Antimicrobial Stewardship Memorial Award in 2020, she is dedicated to tackle antimicrobial resistance by optimising antimicrobial use, advancing AMS practices, and fostering international healthcare collaborations.

Trupti is a Consultant in Microbiology and Infection Diseases and clinical lead for microbiology at UCLH, London. Her main area of interest is infection control and she covers three trusts nationally as the IPC doctor. She is also a consultant microbiologist and infection control doctor for UKHSA. In addition, her other main interest is in infections in the critically ill which allowed her to undertake a PhD at Imperial College London in the role of toll-like receptors in cardiac dysfunction in bacterial sepsis. Her clinical lead role at UCLH has made her passionate in improving clinical infection services, something which should be enabled by chairing the CSC.

Dr. Luke Hunt is a senior trainee in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, with expertise in sustainable infection control, high-consequence infectious diseases, and medical education. Co-opted as the BIA Sustainability Secretary in August 2024, Luke aims to measure and reduce the organisation’s carbon footprint while promoting low-carbon infection diagnosis and management within the NHS. Through education and advocacy, they strive to integrate sustainability into infectious disease practice and policy.

I am an Infectious Diseases/Medical Microbiology registrar in my ST4 year. I am currently a London trainee and have links to both Birmingham and Sheffield from my previous postings. I am also undertaking an MSc in Healthcare Leadership and have a keen interest in leading change within hospital and community medicine. Within infection, my interests lie in infections in ITU patients and mycology. 

I am a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology in Oxford. I have been a member of the BIA’s Clinical Services Committee since 2023 and became joint Guidelines Secretary in 2025. I have an educational interest as TPD in Oxford and hold the ePortfolio role on the SAC. My clinical and research interests include infections in the immunocompromised, tropical infections and disease ecology, in particular rodent and vector-borne zoonses.

(co-opted) Dr Wendy Beadles is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, and clinical lead for infectious diseases and blood borne viruses in NHS Highland. She has expertise in HIV, viral hepatitis, and tick-borne infections, particularly Lyme disease. Wendy founded the region’s OPAT service and served in New Zealand during a sabbatical. She is the devolved nations representative on the BIA Council and brings experience in remote and rural healthcare.

Michael is a specialty trainee in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology in London. He has published in the field of AMR and PK/PD optimisation, and is passionate about communicating science both to medical professionals, and outside the scientific community. Most recently, he has been involved in setting up the UKPII, a repository of information on treating infections in immunosuppressed individuals. He is excited to start the BIA's journal podcast this year, and hopes to reach out to the non-doctor contingent involved with BIA.

I am a Consultant Medical Microbiologist and Associate Professor with a special interest in respiratory infection diagnostics and evaluating the clinical utility of laboratory assays in the context of antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections. I have led regional initiatives in microbiology training and AMR stewardship and contributed to laboratory capacity-building in the Middle East. As BIA Overseas Secretary, I aim to foster meaningful international partnerships and support the global visibility and impact of UK infection expertise.

Martin Wiselka is a Consultant and Honorary Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University Hospitals of Leicester. His research interests include TB, HIV, viral hepatitis and respiratory infections. He has had a long association with BIA and has fulfilled several roles on Council including Honorary Secretary, Vice President and President. Since 2019 he has been Editor in Chief of "Clinical Infection in Practice" A BIA Journal published by Elsevier.