Positioning quinolones in the support of infection management in Scotland

Dr John Cunniffe

John Cunniffe recently retired from Wirral University Teaching Hospital, where he was a Consultant in Medical Microbiology. At various points in post he held the positions of Head of Department, Joint Laboratory Service Lead, Director of Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC), Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, and Clinical Lead for the Wirral Outpatient Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Service. In addition, he was the Clinical Microbiology Lead and Infection Control Doctor for Clatterbridge Cancer Centre until the service relocated to Liverpool in 2020. He was a long-standing Drug and Therapeutics panel member for both Trusts.

Professor John Moore

Professor John E. Moore is Clinical Microbiologist at Belfast City Hospital, incorporating the Northern Ireland Public Health Laboratory, where he has worked since 1993. Belfast City Hospital is a university teaching hospital of Queen’s University of Belfast Medical School, as well as the Regional Centre in Northern Ireland for adults with cystic fibrosis. He is Honorary Professor in the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University, Belfast, as well as Honorary Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences, Ulster University, and past External Examiner for Clinical Microbiology at Trinity College, Dublin. His clinical and research interests include the microbiology of cystic fibrosis, on which he has published approximately 100 peer-reviewed publications, as well as antimicrobial resistance.