Dr David Baxter
Lecturer in Public Health Medicine/Consultant CDC
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 5200 (Cindy Schaller, Secretary)
Biography
David is a Lecturer in Public Health Medicine. He is also a Consultant in Communicable Diseases with the Greater Manchester Health Protection Unit and Director of Infection for Stockport PCT.
In the University he is Course Director for two communicable disease and two major incident modules on the MPH. He is involved in undergraduate medical student teaching and supervision. Research interests involve: new vaccine assessment and other aspects of the immunisation programme: he also undertakes research in sexually transmitted infections.
For GMHPU and Stockport PCT he is involved heavily in immunisation programmes for which he also has direct clinical responsibility primarily around children. He is also involved in infection control and the management of CBRN incidents.
www.manchester.ac.uk/medicine/immunise
Selected publications
2009
- Guppy MJ, Baxter D.. (2009). Updates from the 18(th) national immunization conference for health care workers: Manchester conference centre, December 2007. Hum Vaccin. further details
- Stanford, E, Print, F, Falconer, M, Lamden, K, Ghebrehewet, S, Phin, N, Baxter, D, Helbert, M, McCann, R, Andrews, N, Balmer, P, Borrow, R, Kaczmarski, E. (2009) Immune response to pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in asplenic individuals. Hum Vaccin, 5( 2), further details
- Whittaker, P, Sopwith, W, Quigley, C, Gillespie, I, Willshaw, G, Lycett, C, Surman-Lee, S, Baxter, D, Adak, G, Syed, Q. (2009) A national outbreak of verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 associated with consumption of lemon-and-coriander chicken wraps from a supermarket chain. Epidemiol Infect, 137( 3), 375-82. Full text doi:10.1017/S0950268808001702 further details