Dr Estée Torok

Clinician Scientist Fellow & Senior Research Associate at Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge

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Clinician Scientist Fellow & Senior Research Associate, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge
Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases & Microbiology (Addenbrooke’s Hospital)
Honorary Consultant Microbiologist (Public Health England)

Dr Estée Török qualified in Medicine from the Universities of Oxford and London. She completed her postgraduate medical training in Oxford and then spent a year as a Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine, Imperial College doing hepatitis C research. She received her specialist training in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology in Oxford. From 2004 to 2008 she was a Wellcome Research Training Fellow at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam, where she did her PhD research in HIV and tuberculosis.

In 2009 Dr Török was appointed as a Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge and set up two new clinical services – a bacteraemia consult service and an outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) service. In 2011 she joined Professor Peacock’s research group at University of Cambridge as a Senior Research Associate and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology.

In 2014 Dr Török was awarded a Clinician Scientist Fellowship by the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Health Foundation. She has extensive clinical research experience in the UK and in south-east Asia, and is involved in national and international studies of S. aureus bacteraemia. Her current research focuses on translating microbial genomics from a research tool into clinical practice to improve diagnosis, infection control and public health. She also has interests in medical education and public engagement.