Dr Sarah Menzies
Job title
Consultant
Specialties
Professional background
Dr Sarah Menzies is a consultant respiratory physician at FHFT with specialist interests in tuberculosis and lung infection.
She qualified in Medicine at the University of Nottingham in 1996. After spending time working at the Royal Perth Hospital in Australia and subsequently in Bristol, she did her general Respiratory training in the Oxford deanery. During this time, she completed research in pleural infection and developed her interest in tuberculosis.
She has been working as a consultant at the Trust since 2010. She provides regular clinics services in tuberculosis and general respiratory medicine, and also provides inpatient care for respiratory and general medical patients. She is also involved with the training and supervision of resident doctors and medical students, and participates in tuberculosis research projects.
She is a member of the South East England TB Control Board and the Joint Tuberculosis Council.
Research interests
Research publications:-
Potential to Use Fingerprints for Monitoring Therapeutic Levels of Isoniazid and Treatment Adherence. Ismail, M et al. ACS Omega 2022;7,17:15167–15173
Clinical utility of existing and second-generation interferon-γ release assays for diagnostic evaluation of tuberculosis: an observational cohort study. Whitworth, H et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2019;10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30613-3
Stratification of latent tuberculosis infection by cellular immune profiling. Halliday, A et al. The Journal of infectious diseases 2017;215.10.1093/infdis/jix107
Blood culture bottle culture of pleural fluid in pleural infection. Menzies SM et al. Thorax 2011;66:658-662