Matt Scarborough graduated from Queens University Belfast.  Early post graduate experience
included medical education and refugee camp relief work in the middle East.  He returned to the UK
to complete specialist training in London and Oxford before travelling to Malawi to work on bacterial
meningitis.  He now works in Oxford where his time is split between clinical infection work, general
medicine and research.  Current academic interests include the use of local antibiotics in bone and
joint infection, a potential infective aetiology of back pain, and the management of Staph. aureus
bacteraemia.