ARC ROLE

Clinical Lecturer

PROFESSIONAL ROLE

NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
General Practitioner

EXPERTISE AND INTERESTS

Werner Leber is a practicing GP in the London borough of Newham and an NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, QMUL. His research focuses on the early identification of infectious diseases in primary care.

Werner demonstrated that screening for HIV among people attending the GP new registration check in City & Hackney in London, is both effective and cost-effective (the RHIVA studies). Currently, he is orking on the TARGET-ID project investigating the identification of people living with blood-borne viruses (HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C) in primary care using machine learning.