Microbiology Expert Witness – Dr Kamaljit Kaur Khalsa
Consultant Medical Microbiologist

Dr Khalsa undertakes medico-legal work with TMLEP. Her clinical background includes microbiological investigation, interpretation of laboratory results and advice on infection management.

For proposed instructions through McCollum Consultants, her suitability will depend on the clinical issues and the scope of opinion required.

Dr Kamaljit Kaur Khalsa is a Consultant Medical Microbiologist and medical microbiology expert witness. She works at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.

She has held a consultant appointment since 2019, following specialist training in the West of Scotland Deanery. Her practice connects microbiology laboratory findings with clinical decisions about the investigation and management of infection.

Working within a large UKAS-accredited laboratory, Dr Khalsa collaborates with biomedical scientists to communicate important results to treating clinicians. She provides infection management advice across adult and paediatric services.

She regularly contributes to multidisciplinary meetings in adult general intensive care, adult neurosurgical intensive care, neonatal intensive care and paediatric intensive care. She is also an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow Medical School.

Her qualifications include BMedSci and BM degrees, both with First Class Honours, DRCOG and FRCPath. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in Infection Prevention and Control.

Dr Khalsa’s principal clinical interests include neurosurgical infections, paediatric microbiology and infections in haemato-oncology patients.

Her work combines the interpretation of microbiological findings with advice on infection management. This includes collaboration with clinical teams caring for patients in specialist and intensive care settings.

Dr Khalsa is the Microbiology Training Lead for Glasgow’s South Sector. She also works as a medical appraiser for consultants within the Diagnostics Directorate.

She contributes to senior management, divisional and senior training committee meetings. She regularly participates in national recruitment for Combined Infection Training.

Her research interests include neurosurgical infections, paediatric microbiology, and teaching and training within medical microbiology.

Her published work includes reports on resistant bacterial infection, invasive fungal infection and microbiological contamination in healthcare environments.

Dr Khalsa has co-authored publications in Access Microbiology, Medical Mycology Case Reports, BMJ Case Reports and the American Journal of Infection Control.

Selected publications include a 2022 report on vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infection associated with an external ventricular drain. She also co-authored a 2021 report on treatment of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis.

Her other publications include a 2018 case report concerning an infection presenting as gastroenteritis. A 2014 paper examined Aspergillus fumigatus contamination of a purified water system in an endoscopy reprocessing unit.

Dr Khalsa supervises Combined Infection Trainees and supports foundation doctors, specialty doctors and medical students within a teaching hospital.

She contributes to teaching and lectures at the University of Glasgow Medical School and participates in medical school interviews.

In February 2024, she spoke at a Royal College of Pathologists careers webinar on medical microbiology and virology.