Dr John Turnidge

Dr Turnidge graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney, Australia. After internship and residency in Sydney he moved to Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, South Australia where he completed training in Infectious Diseases and laboratory Microbiology. He spent a year doing research with William A Craig, MD, in Madison, WI, on the early stages of development of the science of antimicrobial pharmacodynamics. He spent eight years at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne before returning to Adelaide as head of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and then as chief of the Laboratory Medicine division. His research interests are focussed on antimicrobial resistance and its control, principally as laboratory work but also focussed on prescribing interventions in hospitals and the community. He has also maintained a strong interest in antibacterial pharmacodynamics and its application to clinical practice and the laboratory detection of resistance.