Roger Bayston

Roger Bayston is Professor of Surgical Infection in the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham. He trained in Sheffield and developed an early interest in surgical infection, publishing a paper constituting the first report of a biofilm infection in a medical context in 1972 while still a trainee in pathology. He later set up a clinic for postoperative surveillance of shunted hydrocephalus patients and was instrumental in establishing case definitions for infection and obstruction in shunts. He was awarded MMedSci for research into the causes of infection in neurosurgery, and PhD in antimicrobial biomaterials in 1979. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. He left Sheffield University to become Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in Medical Microbiology at the University of London, Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London. He left London for Nottingham in 1993 to become Assoc Professor and then full Professor in Surgical Infection. He has published over 150 papers and one book on surgical infection topics as well as 12 book chapters on topics ranging from neurosurgical to urological infection. His current research includes sources of infection in orthopaedics and spine surgery. He is Past President of the international Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida, and Chair of a Medical Advisory Committee for a national medical charity.