Dr Stephanie Thomas

Dr Thomas has been a Consultant Medical Microbiologist at Wythenshawe Hospital since 2010. Selected on merit for the Royal College of Pathologists overseas provision of pathology services scheme, funded by the Department for International Development (DFID). In 2015 she was selected on merit for a 3-day Observership with the WHO based in Copenhagen. In 2016 Dr Thomas participated work with Public Health England – Centres for Disease Control, feeding back to PHE and CCDC on how improvements in communication and diagnosis could have been made and how our experiences could benefit management of emerging threats moving forward, both locally and nationally. She is currently on sabbatical with the Laboratory & Testing Cell of Public Health Scotland, working on the COVID-19 response. She is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Manchester.

Dr Thomas’ main clinical roles include management of patients with sepsis and blood stream infections. She is lead microbiologist for the Severe Respiratory Failure Service, managing infection in patients on the intensive care unit and undergoing extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Her other interests include management of surgical site infection, particularly complex vascular infections and diabetic foot infection. Spanning all of this is her interest in the increasing threat and spread of antimicrobial resistance, particularly related to carbapenem-resistance in the gram-negative bacilli.