Dr Tim Felton is a Consultant in Intensive Care and Respiratory Medicine at the University Hospital of South Manchester.  He qualified in medicine in 1999 at the University of Nottingham.  Dr Felton undertook his training in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine in the North West of England and in Sydney, Australia.  He completed an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship and was awarded his PhD in anti-infective pharmacology by The University of Manchester in 2014.  His research interest is in infection in critically ill patients particularly related to optimising antimicrobial drug regimens to suppress emergence of anti-microbial resistance.