Our team and consultants
All of our consultants are highly trained individuals and are respected in their specialist areas.
Co-directors
Annette Jeanes
PhD MSc DipN DipIC RN
Infection Prevention & Control Consultant
Annette is an independent Consultant Infection Control Nurse. She was the Infection Control lead at the Nightingale Hospital in London for the duration of the initial and subsequent Covid-19 response. Prior to that Annette worked in the NHS as the Director of Infection Prevention & Control and Consultant Nurse Infection Control at University College London Hospitals. She has worked at several London hospitals in intensive care, infectious diseases, medicine and surgery. Areas of expertise and interest include hand hygiene / infection control compliance and performance monitoring, cleaning in healthcare, leadership in healthcare, healthcare building planning, infection control in sport.
Dr Vanya Gant
PhD FRCP FRCPath
Dr Vanya Gant is a Consultant in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and development of diagnostics." He is currently Principal investigator on an NIHR Programme Grant, has published over 120 Peer reviewed papers and reviews and writes for several Journals including Nature Microbiology. Dr Vanya Gant studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital in London and qualified in 1980. He then gained a decade of clinical experience in general hospital medicine, treating patients across several medical specialities. He studied for and gained a PhD in cellular immunology and has since then focused his clinical work within the field of microbiology and infectious diseases.
Company Coordinator
Ann King
Ann is a highly experienced Office Manager, Administrator and Team Co-ordinator.
With over 30 years of working in the Public and Private Sector, she has worked as company co-ordinator at IMC since 2013.
Her skills provide excellent customer services and relationship management, accounts management, systems support and development and Team co-ordination.
Consultants
Dr Antonia Scobie
MB BS BSc MSc DTM&H MRCP(ID) FRCPath
Dr Antonia Scobie completed her undergraduate medical training at Royal Free and University College Medical School in 2007. She completed a Master’s degree in Clinical Microbiology and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene during her specialist infection training in London. In 2020, she was appointed as a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at The Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust and The Royal National Orthopaedic NHS Trust. Her specialist interests include orthopaedic and implant-associated infections, Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) and novel antimicrobial therapies including bacteriophages.
She is the research lead for the Bone Infection Unit at Royal National orthopaedic hospital and Lead for the UK Clinical Working Group for bacteriophage therapy in bone and joint infections.
Dr Emmanuel Wey
MB BS MSc MRCPCH FRCPath DLSHTM
Dr Emmanuel Wey qualified in Medicine at St Georges’ Medical School University of London and continued his Clinical training in London. After training in Paediatrics and Clinical Microbiology and Virology he undertook a period of research at the Centre for Clinical Microbiology in the Division of Infection and Immunity at UCL. After completing an MD on the use of MALDI-TOF for the detection of biomarkers of antibiotic resistance he was appointed as a Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Infection at the Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Division of Infection and Immunity.
He is the Research Lead for the department of Microbiology and a member of the UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology Research group and am actively involved in developing the group’s Clinical research portfolio collaborations with clinicians at Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and other National and International Research Centres.
Dr Gauri Godbole
MBBS MD MRCP FRCPath
Dr Gauri Godbole is a Consultant Microbiologist and Parasitologist and specialises in gastrointestinal and tropical parasite infections, she works at UK Health Security Agency and The Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London.
She graduated from Pune, India in 1997 and has a MD in Internal Medicine from the University of Mumbai. She trained further in Internal Medicine in London until 2005 and undertook a Fellowship in Medical Microbiology and Virology at the University College London NHS Foundation Trust which she completed in 2013. She has over 25 years of experience in the field of Infection, and has worked in many large hospitals across London. She is a national expert and specialises in gastrointestinal bacterial infections and parasites, she is the clinical lead for the helicobacter and botulism reference service for England.
Dr Indran Balakrishnan
BSc MBBS MRCP MSc FRCPath
Dr Indran Balakrishnan has been a Consultant/Hon. Senior Lecturer in Medical Microbiology at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London since 2004. His particular remit is antimicrobial stewardship, and he Chairs the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee. His research interests include the rapid detection of antimicrobial resistance and clinical efficacy of new antimicrobials.
Dr Luke Moore
FRCPath FRCP PhD MPH MSc DTM&H DipULT MBChB
Dr Luke Moore is an Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist with special interests in critical care infections, antimicrobial resistance, and healthcare systems. He holds a PhD, and two master’s degrees in public health and in Clinical Microbiology, both with distinction. He is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Pathologists and the Royal College of Physicians. His current research focuses on the epidemiology of and interventions for outbreak control and antimicrobial stewardship, and he has published over 200 peer reviewed manuscripts.
He is an associate editor for two infection-related journals, and a trustee for the Healthcare Infection Society. He provides undergraduate and post graduate education across a range of degree courses, and several different years of the MBBS programme. Clinically he supervises specialty trainees, and is Specialty Training Committee West Hub Lead for infectious diseases, microbiology, and virology.
Professor Mark Gilchrist
MPharm Msc (IPresc) FFRPS FRPharmS
Professor Mark Gilchrist is a Consultant Pharmacist in Infectious Diseases and Head of Antimicrobial Stewardship at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, where he leads the OPAT service. He is also a Professor of Practice at Imperial College London and a spokesperson on antimicrobials for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), where he chairs the expert advisory group on antimicrobials.
Mark co-leads the UK OPAT Initiative, with interests in antimicrobial stewardship, tuberculosis, and critical care. He holds an MSc, independent prescribing status, and an NHS Leadership Academy Nye Bevan Award. He is a past chair of the UKCPA PIN and has lectured and published extensively on antimicrobial stewardship.
Dr Mike Kidd
MSc PhD FRCPath
Dr Mike Kidd is a Consultant Clinical Scientist in Virology with over 40 years of experience in clinical, research, and laboratory leadership at NHS teaching hospitals in London, Nottingham, and the PHE/UKHSA Regional Public Health Laboratory in Birmingham. He was a full member of the UK Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens for three terms (~9 years) and the RCPath Paediatric and Perinatal Pathology SAC. His clinical interests include viral infections in pregnancy, infections in the immunocompromised, and respiratory viruses, with research focused on their diagnosis. He also served as Head of Virology at the MRC unit in The Gambia, West Africa.
Dr Nabeela Mughal
MEd FHEA DipULT FRCPath MSc MRCP(Infectious Diseases) MB BS BSc
Dr. Nabeela Mughal is a consultant in Infectious Diseases, Clinical Microbiology, and Virology with special interests in healthcare-associated infections, infection prevention, outbreak management, OPAT and antimicrobial stewardship. She leads on enhancing patient care by developing evidence-based pathways and rapid diagnostic tools, providing assurance at the executive board level. Dr. Mughal is a senior leader with experience in policy development, quality assurance, sustainability, patient pathways, leadership, and governance in infection-related care.
Dr. Mughal works clinically across secondary and tertiary care in London and serves as the Strategic IPC Quality Lead for the Acute Provider Collaborative in North West London. She is also a strategic member of the North West London Infection Prevention and Control Group for the Integrated Care System (ICS), driving infection strategy and improvements regionally.
Dr Neil Stone
PhD FRCP FRCPath DTMH
Neil Stone is a dually qualified Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. He qualified in medicine from Guy’s, King’s College and St. Thomas’ Hospitals in 2004 and is a Consultant at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the Department of Microbiology at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust. He completed a PhD on cryptococcal meningitis at St. George’s, University of London and has a special interest in invasive fungal disease including novel diagnostics and treatments for fungal disease. He has publications in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Reviews Microbiology and Lancet Microbe.
He is an honorary assistant professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Professor Peter Wilson
MA MD FRCP FRCPath
Professor Peter Wilson is a consultant microbiologist at University College London Hospitals. He has particular responsibility for advising on antimicrobial chemotherapy in critical care and on infection control in both acute and long stay facilities. He is a member of governmental advisory committees on hospital acquired infection and antimicrobial chemotherapy and has been active in research in the area since 1990. He is Scientific Secretary of the Healthcare Infection Society.
Dr Sophie Collier
MA BMPCh FRCP FRCPath MSc MRCP
Dr Collier trained in medicine at Cambridge and Oxford, completing general medical training and gaining MRCP in London. She then specialised in Microbiology and completed her registrar training at UCLH before taking up a consultant post at the Royal Free Hospital in January 2010. Her main areas of interest are managing infection and infection control issues on the renal units, chronic infection patient reviews and antibiotic stewardship ward rounds. She is currently the clinical lead for the Trust OPAT service.
Dr Collier enjoys teaching and training at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. After nearly 5 years as Deputy Director of Medical Education at the Royal Free Hospital, she recently started an interim position as Academic Lead for the Clinical and Professional Practise Module at UCL Medical School. She is a qualified coach and enjoys coaching and supporting other healthcare professionals. her next challenge is to combine coaching with mindfulness!
Dr Vanessa Wong
PhD BMBCh MA MSc MRCP FRCPath
Dr Vanessa Wong graduated in medicine at the University of Oxford in 2002 and works as a Consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Cambridge University Hospitals and the National Infection Service, UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), London. She is a national expert in current and emerging gastrointestinal bacterial infections.
She was awarded a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2015 for her global surveillance of typhoid fever. Her work has been presented widely and she received the Gold Research Award (Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath), London) and Young Investigator Award (Academy of Medical Sciences, London) for her research.
Her other interests include antimicrobial stewardship, infections in the immunosuppressed and development of novel diagnostics for rapid pathogen detection. Vanessa is affiliated to Hughes Hall and teaches medical students at the University of Cambridge. She also has an interest in public engagement and was awarded the Furness Prize for Science Communication (RCPath, London) for her contribution in this field.
Dr Vanya Gant
PhD FRCP FRCPath
Dr Vanya Gant is a Consultant in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and development of diagnostics." He is currently Principal investigator on an NIHR Programme Grant, has published over 120 Peer reviewed papers and reviews and writes for several Journals including Nature Microbiology. Dr Vanya Gant studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital in London and qualified in 1980. He then gained a decade of clinical experience in general hospital medicine, treating patients across several medical specialities. He studied for and gained a PhD in cellular immunology and has since then focused his clinical work within the field of microbiology and infectious diseases.
Nurse Consultants
Annette Jeanes
PhD MSc DipN DipIC RN
Infection Prevention & Control Consultant
Annette is an independent Consultant Infection Control Nurse. She was the Infection Control lead at the Nightingale Hospital in London for the duration of the initial and subsequent Covid-19 response. Prior to that Annette worked in the NHS as the Director of Infection Prevention & Control and Consultant Nurse Infection Control at University College London Hospitals. She has worked at several London hospitals in intensive care, infectious diseases, medicine and surgery. Areas of expertise and interest include hand hygiene / infection control compliance and performance monitoring, cleaning in healthcare, leadership in healthcare, healthcare building planning, infection control in sport.
Gema Martinez Garcia
RGN, BSC(Hons) Infection Control, MSc Healthcare Leadership
Gema qualified as a general nurse at Complutense University of Madrid in 2003. She worked in various London hospitals before specialising in haematology. In 2009, she joined the Infection Prevention and Control team at Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust, completing a B.Sc. (Hons) in Infection Control in 2013. Her role involved leading surgical site infection surveillance and developing the vascular access and OPAT departments.
In 2016, Gema earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Leadership and Management in Healthcare and joined UCLH as a Senior Nurse for IPC. She later became a Nurse Consultant and Deputy Director of Infection Prevention and Control, serving until July 2024.
Currently, Gema is the Clinical Director International for Gama Healthcare Ltd., providing expert advice and support on IPC globally, working with stakeholders to implement best practices.
Leila Hail
RGN BSc European Nursing, MSC Healthcare
Leila Hail is an experienced Consultant Nurse and Deputy Director of Infection Prevention and Control at University College London Hospitals. She qualified from the University of Brighton having completed a 4 year European nursing and Spanish language degree, in 2015 she completed an MSc in Healthcare with distinction at LSBU. In the past she has worked at several London teaching hospitals in intensive care, transplant and burns unit, accident and emergency and surgery.
She has particular interests in outbreak management and the effects of hospital design as an essential component of infection control; other areas of interest include, reducing the risk of invasive device associated infections and the design of Electronic health records to maximise key IPC elements to improve real time communication and patient safety within healthcare settings. Leila has also worked as an external expert and advisor to organisations particularly at a strategic level, as well as an expert advisor in national groups, she is currently a member of the NHSE infection prevention and control shared decision making council. Leila joined the HIS council in 2021 and has been a Trustee since October 2022.
Decontamination Expert
Sylvia Martin
Sylvia has worked in the field of decontamination for over 25 years and is a member of the Institute of Decontamination Sciences. During that time she has worked on a number of projects including the design and build of centralised Sterile Services and Endoscopy units as well as being one of the contributors to the DoH guidance documents following funded pilot studies into the development of new technology for protein quantification. Sylvia has been a tutor for Eastwood Park training centre for the past 6 years and delivers courses on the management of decontamination in line with current guidance. She is employed by Barts Health as their Decontamination Lead and acts in an advisory role to UCLH.