Dlawer Ala'Aldeen

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Professor Dlawer Ala'Aldeen (MBChB, DTM&H, MSc, PhD, FRCPath) is Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Head Molecular Bacteriology and Immunology Group, Division of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, at the University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.

He studied medicine in Baghdad, tropical medicine in London (LSH&TM)and molecular Microbiology at the MRC-Clinical Research Centre (Harrow, UK). He founded the Molecular Bacteriology and Immunology Group^[1] in 1999. He has worked on pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology and vaccine development of various bacterial pathogens, particularly Neisseria meningitides (causes meningitis and septicemia) and Campylobacter jejuni (most common cause of food poisoning). He is the Founding Director of the MSc course in Clinical Microbiology in Nottingham University^[2].

He has been chairman or member of a number of National learned societies and committees (see below)and the editorial board of three international microbiology/infection journals, including Journal of Medical Microbiology^[3], Journal of Infection^[4], BMC Microbiolog^[5].

Ala'Aldeen has published extensively in international journals(see http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mbig/daa.htm) and co-authored three books in microbiology, Staphylococcus Aureus: molecular and clinical aspects, Medical Microbiology, Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Bacterial Vaccine Development and Medical Microbiology . He holds patents for meningococcal vaccine candidates .^[6]. Ala'Aldeen has published a book on Lobbying for a Stateless Nation^[7]; and investigated the use of chemical weapons in Kurdistan^[8], and the poisoning of Kurdish refugees in Turkey (published in the Lancet, 1990 Feb 3;335,p287-8)

[edit] Board membership

Chairman, Clinical Microbiology Group of the Society for General Microbiology^[9]
Chairman, Federation of Infection Societies Scientific Committee (2007)
Chairman, Research Subcommittee for Microbiology, the Royal College of Pathologists^[10]
Examination Board of the Royal College of Pathologists
Medical Research Council's Infection and Immunity Board^[11]
Specialty Advisory Committee of the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath)^[12]
Health Protection Agency's^[13] Meningococcus Forum