Jonathan Sandoe is Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of Leeds and Honorary Consultant Microbiologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Member of the Leeds Endocarditis Service, a multidisciplinary team which has managed patients with infective endocarditis (IE) at LTHT since 2004. He has a longstanding interest in the management and prevention of IE and, since 2002 has been a member of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Endocarditis Working Party.