Dr Santiago was awarded a Chief Scientist Office Clinical Academic Training Fellowship and she is currently doing a PhD in Medicine from April 2013 in the Division of Population Health Sciences. The title of the project is “A multilevel analysis of the impact of changes in antimicrobial prescribing on antimicrobial resistance”. She is also a local GP in NHS Tayside. Prior to that, she was a NES GP Academic Fellow for two years, having qualified as a General Practitioner in Madrid, Spain, in 2010.

Her research interests are in antimicrobial prescribing in Primary Care, with a special focus on antimicrobial misuse and its implications for resistance and adverse health outcomes (healthcare associated infections), and methods for improving the quality of antimicrobial prescribing and management of infectious diseases in the community

Isabel del Cura-González, Juan A. López-Rodríguez, TeresaSanz-Cuesta1, Ricardo Rodríguez-Barrientos,Jesús Martín-Fernández, Gloria Ariza-Cardiel, Elena Polentinos-Castro, Bego?a Román-Crespo, Esperanza Escortell-Mayor, Milagros Rico-Blázquez, Virginia Hernández-Santiago, AND Educaguia Group. Effectiveness of a strategy that uses educational games to implement clinical practice guidelines among Spanish residents of family and community medicine (e-EDUCAGUIA project): a clinical trial by clusters. Implementation Science (2016) 11:71 Douglas Murphy, Patricia Aitchison , Virginia Hernandez Santiago , Peter Davey , Gary Mires and Dilip Nathwani. Insightful Practice: a robust measure of medical students’ professional response to feedback on their performance. BMC Medical Education (2015) 15:125 DOI 10.1186/s12909-015-0406-2 Virginia Hernandez-Santiago, Charis A Marwick, Andrea Patton,Peter G Davey, Peter T Donnan, Bruce Guthrie. Time series analysis of the impact of an intervention in Tayside, Scotland to reduce primary care broad-spectrum antimicrobial use. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 05/2015; DOI:10.1093/jac/dkv095 Daniel R Morales, Bruce Guthrie, Brian J Lipworth, Cathy Jackson, Peter T Donnan, Virginia H Santiago. NSAID exacerbated respiratory disease: a meta-analysis evaluating prevalence, mean provocative dose of aspirin and increased asthma morbidity. Allergy 04/2015; 70(7). DOI:10.1111/all.12629 Bruce Guthrie, Boikanyo Makubate, Virginia Hernandez-Santiago and Tobias Dreischulte. The rising tide of polypharmacy and drug-drug interactions: population database analysis 1995-2010. BMC Medicine 04/2015, 13:74 doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0322-7. Raquel Gomez Bravo, Anna Maria de Pedro, Enrique Alvarez Porta, Virginia Hernandez Santiago, Sara del Olmo Fernandez, Manuel Sarmiento Cruz. El movimiento Vasco da Gama. Comunidad 2014; 16(1). Morales DR, Lipworth BL, Guthrie B, Jackson C, Donnan PT, Santiago VH. Safety risks for AERD patients following acute exposure to selective NSAIDs and COX-2 inhibitors: meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2013. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2013.10.057 Bruce Guthrie, Mary Duffy, Virginia Hernandez Santiago, Gillian Orange, Peter Davey. Trimethoprim prescription and subsequent resistance in childhood urinary infection: multilevel modelling analysis. BJGP 2013, 63(209): pp. e238-e243(6). Charis Marwick, Virginia Hernandez Santiago, Colin McCowan, Janice Broomhall, Peter Davey. Community acquired infections in older patients admitted to hospital from care homes versus the community: cohort study of microbiology and outcomes. BMC Geriatrics 2013, 13:12 (6 February 2013). Virginia Hernandez Santiago. Ser medico de familia en Escocia (Scottish General Practice). AMF 2013;9(7):412-414. Article in Spanish Salda?a I, Hernandez V, Cubero P. Enfermedad de Chagas: abordaje de una afección emergente en nuestro medio (Chagas’ Disease: management of an emerging disease in our country). FMC. 2009;16(2):68-76. Article in Spanish Hernández V, Salda?a I. A propósito de un caso: enfermedad de Chagas, un nuevo reto para Atención Primaria (Case report: Chagas’ Disease, a new threat for General Practice). AMF 2009;5(4):218-226. Article in Spanish