Dr Brendan Payne is an honorary consultant physician in infectious diseases.
Biography
Dr Brendan Payne holds CCTs in both infectious diseases and virology and works jointly across both departments at the Newcastle Hospitals. He has particular interests in viral infections, especially in immunocompromised hosts, and is also the medical lead for the regional Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) service.
Dr Payne is an honorary clinical senior lecturer at Newcastle University, where he is a Principle investigator in the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research. His main research interests are focussed on HIV and ageing. He is also involved in clinical and diagnostic research studies for the Newcastle Hospitals. These include clinical trials in HIV, and more recently COVID-19.
He is senior tutor for medical students intercalating into the MRes programme.
Special interests
- Complex HIV (particularly neurological and metabolic complications, and anti-retroviral resistance)
- Infection in the non-HIV immunocompromised patient
- Viral infectious diseases
- Diagnostics of viral infections
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Clinical research
