Dr Mike Simmons – Public Health Microbiologist
Public Health Wales
Dr Mike Simmons is the Clinical Lead for Public Health Wales Microbiology Services to the Hywel Dda Health Board. Previously he was Director of Health Protection within the National Public Health Service for Wales and from 2000 to 2007 was the Senior Medical Officer (Communicable Diseases) on secondment to the Welsh Assembly Government. His health protection interests are wide, as a result of his previous employment but his current preoccupations include healthcare associated infections, design and decontamination of surgical instruments, as well as his longstanding passion of the application and use of information management solutions in health.
Mike is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and the Faculty of Public Health. Specialist training in medical microbiology was conducted in the Royal Navy, where he served a 16 year commission, including active service with the South Atlantic Task Force.