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.
She has Published extensively with a total of over 170 peer-reviewed articles and books or book chapters
