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Date(s) - Mon Apr 08 2024
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Antibiotics are one of the most important medical discoveries of the 20th century to combat infectious disease. Our use of these drugs continues to save countless lives of people and animals. With their use also comes resistance to their miraculous anti-bacterial properties. Please come out to learn about how we use these drugs to manage disease in human medicine, in our furry family members, and in livestock production. We will explore how bacteria adapt to resist these drugs, and what we need to do about it to preserve their longterm effectiveness for society.
About Simon Otto:
Dr. Simon Otto is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta School of Public Health and is the lead of the HEAT-AMR (Human-Environment-Animal Transdisciplinary Antimicrobial Resistance) Research Group (www.heat-amr.com). He is also the Thematic Area Lead for Healthy Environments in the Centre for Healthy Communities at the School of Public Health. He is a veterinarian and epidemiologist whose research investigates One Health and Antimicrobial Resistance where he works with partners to identify strategies to support antimicrobial stewardship – identifying ways that we can change practice to maintain the effectiveness of antibiotics for future generations using a One Health approach.
Simon likes to cycle and walk with his daughter Stella and dog Skye in the Edmonton river valley, and in the mountains whenever they get the chance.