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Guduru Gopal Rao | |
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| Born | 1954 (age 69–70) |
| Education | Armed Forces Medical College, Pune |
| Occupation | Microbiologist |
| Years active | 1990-present |
| Spouse | Nirmala Rao |
| Awards | OBE |
| Medical career | |
| Research | Microbiology Infection control |
Guduru Gopal Rao (born 1954, Cuttack, India) is a Consultant Microbiologist and Lead Clinician Infection Control working in the NHS since April 1990 and currently the head of the Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Clinical Microbiology at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. He is also a senior lecturer at Imperial College London.
Rao led the teams that introduced alcohol based hand disinfectants at the end of beds in hospitals for the first time in the UK, back in the early 1990s.[1]
Rao also introduced universal Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) screening at the point of hospital admission for the first time in the UK leading to reduced infection rates.[2] This was later mandated to become national policy. [3] Rao is an expert advisor for Group B Strep Support [4] and introduced routine Group B Streptococcus (GBS) screening of pregnant women for the first time in the UK. [5]
Early life
[edit]Rao was born in Cuttack, India in 1954, last of eight children of Guduru Venkatachalam and grandson of Gurduru Ramachandra Rao (founder of the Dalit Movement in Andhra Pradesh in 1917).
Education
[edit]Rao graduated from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune and completed a post-graduate in Medicine from Madras Medical College, Chennai.
Research work
[edit]Rao authored over 100 peer review scientific publications and review articles on a range of topics in infection control and clinical microbiology.
Awards
[edit]In the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours, Rao was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to medicine.[6]
In 2013 he received a Life Time Achievement Award from the Telugu Association of London (TAL) which recognises people of Telugu origin with exceptional talents who have contributed for the social good or a legend in their own chosen field.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "New weapons against hospital bugs". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2008.
- ^ "Beating the Superbugs". mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
- ^ "Lewisham Hospital does belatedly well on MRSA: Are there lessons for us all?". newsshopper.co.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2006.
- ^ "Group B Strep Support". gbss.org.uk. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ "Strep B screening for pregnant women 'can significantly cut risk to newborns'". express.co.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- ^ "Queen's birthday honours list: OBEs". theguardian.com. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
- ^ "Telugu Association of London (TAL)". www.taluk.org. Retrieved 1 January 2024.