Professor Peter L Chiodini OBE BSc MB PhD MRCS FRCP (Lond) FRCP (Glasg) FRCPath FFTM RCPS (Glasg), ESCMID Fellow.

CURRENT POSITION

• Scheme Organiser for the UK National External Quality Assessment Schemes for Parasitology
• Director of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Malaria Reference Laboratory
• Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Peter Chiodini graduated from King’s College London with First Class Honours in Zoology and gained his PhD in Parasitology at the Wellcome Research Laboratories. He then studied Medicine in London before undergoing specialist training in Communicable Diseases in Birmingham.

He is a member of the UKHSA Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention in Travellers and advises the National Blood Service on the prevention of transfusion-transmitted parasitic infections.

He was Dean of the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (2009 to 2012).

His research interests include new diagnostic methods for parasitic infections, malaria, Chagas disease and hydatid disease.

In 2018 he was awarded an OBE for services to parasitology and malaria.