Keith Grimwood is Deputy Head (Research) of the School of Medicine and Dentistry and Professor of Infectious Diseases at Griffith University and Gold Coast Health. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Otago-Wellington, Conjoint Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Queensland and Inaugural Director of the Queensland Children’s Medical Research Institute. As a clinical researcher he has published >350 papers, book chapters and reports covering respiratory viral and gastrointestinal infections, pneumonia, cystic fibrosis lung disease, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, bronchiectasis, meningitis, urinary tract infections and vaccine-preventable diseases.