Dr Claire Dewsnap

President

Dr Claire Dewsnap is a Consultant Physician in Genitourinary Medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

She began her experience in GUM in Bradford in 2001 and then commenced a training post at Chelsea and Westminster.

She was appointed as a consultant in 2007 in Sheffield and became clinical lead in 2009. She has led in a number of roles, including clinical lead across two departments and lead for quality improvement across Outpatient services. Claire has had a number of roles in education including Dip GUM examiner, Foundation TPD and lead for Blackboard roll out in Yorkshire and Humber foundation school. Research interests include management of bacterial STIs and online testing. Organisational areas of interest included change implementation, quality and service improvement and teaching and training. She has lead and been involved in numerous quality improvement and change implementation projects within the field both strategically and operationally.

Claire became BASHH conference and communication chair in 2018. Claire is the current BASHH President.