Dr Alistair McGregor is a graduate of Otago University (1982), and trained in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology in Christchurch, Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney before moving to Hobart in 1996. He was the Director of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Royal Hobart Hospital for a number of years, and along with Brett Mitchell, helped to establish the Tasmanian Infection Prevention and Control Unit (TIPCU). He now practices as a Clinical Microbiologist at Hobart and remains an active member of the Australian and American Society of Microbiology and the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases.