Prof. David Livermore

Biography

 David Livermore gained his BSc in 1978 and his PhD in 1983. He worked at the London Hospital Medical College from 1980 until 1997 when he joined the Health Protection Agency (now Public Health England), becoming Director of its Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory in 1998. In October 2011 he became Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of East Anglia but with 30% of this time supplied back to Public Health England as its Lead on Antibiotic Resistance. He has broad interests on the evolution and dissemination of antibiotic resistance and its relationship to antibiotic prescribing. Prof Livermore sits on the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy's working parties on resistance surveillance, multi-resistant pathogens and susceptibility testing and its Antibiotic Action advisory board and is a member of the UK Government's Antimicrobial Resistance & Healthcare Infections Advisory Committee. He publishes and speaks widely on resistance and has edited for several journals including Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Journal of Medical Microbiology and, currently, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.

Research Interest

Antibiotic Resistance