Kerrie Davies
Kerrie Davies, Principal Clinical Scientist and Visiting Research Fellow, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Leeds. Kerrie has been a researcher for >20 years with a particular interest in Clostridium difficile laboratory diagnosis and was the lead scientist for the study that changed the UK C. difficile laboratory diagnostic guidelines, and has gone on to influence both the European (ESCMID) and US (SHEA) guidelines. Kerrie continues to study CDI diagnosis and is continually evaluating new and developing methods. In addition, Kerrie leads and coordinates several pan-European surveillance studies of CDI and is currently a co-investigator and the scientific lead for COMBACTE-CDI, to determine the burden of CDI across the whole of the healthcare economy in Europe.
