Dr Sharon Marlowe

Dr Sharon Marlowe is a consultant physician specialising in infectious diseases and tropical medicine, based in Bristol. She has expertise in treating chronic infectious diseases, long COVID or chronic fatigue syndrome, autonomic dysfunction, Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections, post-infectious inflammatory autoimmune disorders, tropical and post-travel infections, mycobacterial infections, and low immunity.

Dr Marlowe qualified from the University of Bristol in 1994 and underwent training in the South West region of England before earning her MD for mycobacterial diseases research and postgraduate diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has gained experience and developed skills in infectious diseases, tropical medicine, and clinical microbiology in medical institutions worldwide, including those in Australia, Ethiopia, and Nepal. After receiving her MD, she was appointed as consultant at Flinders University Hospital in Australia, where she also, in 2003, took part in the vanguard against the SARS outbreak of 2003. She has ​three years of experience with the Department of International Development where she was involved in public health programmes against HIV in Africa, and additionally, she ran international clinical trials in mycobacterial diseases, contributing to her research profile. Before settling in Bristol, she spent time working in Birmingham and Manchester. She has collaborated with the Health Protection Agency in the South West on the Tuberculosis Programme, and has engaged in research on hepatitis C with the University of Bristol and the Vital Hepatitis Department at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.

Currently, Dr Marlowe sits on the Steering Committee for Lyme Disease at the Royal College of General Practitioners, where she has contributed to writing an online toolkit for Lyme disease in the UK. She was recently featured on The Diagnostic Detectives, a BBC series where the UK’s leading medical experts diagnose complex and rare symptoms.