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Felicity Fitzgerald is a Clinical Associate Professor in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London and an honorary consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Her research focuses on improving the diagnosis, management, and prevention of neonatal sepsis in low-resource settings, particularly in the UK and Zimbabwe. She is especially interested in enhancing infection prevention and control to limit the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Fitzgerald has developed an AI-enabled clinical decision support tool aimed at reducing antibiotic use in newborns in these settings. She collaborates with an international multidisciplinary team to explore the contextual impacts of antibiotic decision-making among clinicians and families. Currently, she supervises PhD students funded by Wellcome and MRC, working on projects in Zimbabwe, Uganda, and the UK. Her earlier research includes a PhD project at University College London on microbial translocation in HIV-infected children in Uganda and volunteering during the West African Ebola Virus Disease outbreak. She has trained in medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge, and UCL Medical School, completing her Academic Clinical Training Pathway in Paediatric Infectious Diseases in 2022.
Imperial College London • London, United Kingdom
Research focuses on paediatric infectious diseases, particularly neonatal sepsis and antimicrobial resistance, with a commitment to improving healthcare in low-resource settings.
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