Riina Richardson
Infectious Disease Specialist
- Head of Service and the Clinical Lead for the NHS Mycology Reference Centre Manchester
- Senior Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases and Medical Education at the University of Manchester (UoM)
- Honorary Consultant Mycologist at the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
- Member of the Royal College of Pathologists’ Medical Microbiology and Virology Speciality Advisory Committee.
- The Chair of the Bacteriology Working Group for the UK Standards of Microbiological Investigations (UK SMIs).
- Education Officer of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID Fungal Infection Study Group EFISG) and was recently appointed onto the ESCMID Education subcommittee.
- Published extensively with a total of over 170 peer-reviewed articles and books or book chapters
