Melissa Rochon

Melissa Rochon is the Trust Lead for SSI Surveillance, Research and Innovation within the Surveillance and Innovation Unit at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London. She has served on several national committees focused on the prevention of surgical site infections (SSI), surgical wound healing, and the use of digital imaging in wound care.

Her current research projects include leading a central digital wound hub to support surgical site surveillance for the UK’s largest ever surgical trial, Rossini-Platform — a ‘Basket Factorial MAMS’ platform trial in surgical site infection, funded by the NIHR. She is also a chief investigator for WISDOM, a study aimed at developing and clinically evaluating artificial intelligence to assist clinicians in reviewing and prioritising surgical wound images.