Dr. Susan Sanchez is from the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia. She is the section head for Microbiology and Molecular Biology, the Assistant Director of the Biomedical Health Science Institute and the Chair of One Health.Her research interests include: (i) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) spread in humans and animals (ii) Staphylococcus and Salmonella with a focus on MRSA and (iii) Diagnostic testing for zoonses present in animals.
Her talk focused on how AMR spreads between humans and animals. Interestingly she started off by saying her adviser had said a long time ago that clinical microbiology is dead, we have antimicrobials. I think we can all agree, that is not true. Estimates suggest that a failure to address AMR could lead to 10 million deaths by 2050.
