Mr Matthew Scarborough

Biography

Matt Scarborough graduated from Queens University Belfast. He works as an Infectious Disease Consultant Oxford in the Bone Infection Unit. His time is split between clinical infection work, general medicine and research. His current academic interests include the use of local antibiotics in bone and joint infection, a potential infective aetiology of back pain, and the management of Staph. Aureus bacteraemia. He is affiliated with the Experimental Medical Division of Oxford University and has published extensively on a variety of topics related to bone infection. He was the principal investigator in the OVIVA trial looking at intravenous or oral antibiotics for bone infection, which has had a huge impact of the treatment of bone and joint infection across the world. His early post graduate experience included medical education and in refugee camp relief work in the Middle East. He returned to the UK to complete specialist training in London and Oxford before travelling to Malawi to work on bacterial meningitis.