Dr Christopher Duncan is an Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary where he specialises in viral diseases including CNS infection and HIV, Primary immunodeficiency, Infection in immunocompromised hosts, Autoinflammatory diseases, Pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) and outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT).
Following postgraduate training in General (Internal) Medicine in Glasgow, Dr Duncan did higher specialty training in Infectious Diseases in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Taking time out of clinical training he worked initially as a research fellow, and then undertook a PhD in viral immunology in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford.
At the end of his PhD, Dr Duncan moved to Newcastle to complete his clinical training, taking up an Academic Clinical Lectureship at Newcastle University in 2014. He was awarded a British Infection Association Research Fellowship in 2016 and appointed to his current position at the completion of his clinical training in 2017.