Adilia Warris

Organisation:
University of Exeter
Department:
MRC Centre for Medical Mycology
Job Title:
Professor Paediatric Infectious Diseases / Co-Director of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology
Address:
MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK
Biography:

Professor Adilia Warris is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist with a specific interest in medical mycology. She is co-director of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter. She holds an honorary position in paediatric infectious diseases at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. Prof Warris’ research profile has a strong translational focus and specific areas of interest include antifungal resistance and host-fungus interactions in specific patient populations. She chairs the European Paediatric Mycology Network (EPMyN) and leads the Fungal Infection Working Group of PENTA Child Health Research.

She is Editor-in-Chief of Medical Mycology Case Reports, and has published over 170 peer-reviewed papers and contributed to several book chapters both nationally and internationally.

Prof Warris is actively involved in the development of various international guidelines (ECIL, ESCMID-ECMM) and Consensus Definitions (EORTC) targeted at the diagnosis and management of invasive fungal infections in neonates and children.