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Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 341-350

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From page 341...
... He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Bern (Switzerland) , where he completed his fellowship in the Institute of Pathology, and from Kansas State University, where he serves on the External Advisory Board for the Biosecurity Institute.
From page 342...
... Specifically, he pioneered the development of the first antibiotic designed by a computer with efficacy in animal models, designed pattern recognition algorithms for antibiotic discovery, successfully reprogrammed venoms into novel antimicrobials, created novel resistanceproof antimicrobial materials, and invented rapid low-cost diagnostics for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
From page 343...
... She also serves as a member of the ARLG Pediatric working group and the ARLG Diagnostics committee. She is a voting member for a number of CLSI documents, including Principles and Procedures for Blood Culture and Methods for active surveillance of multidrug-resistant organisms, and she has served on the ASM Laboratory Medicine Best Practice Guidelines Committee for the diagnosis of Clostridioides difficile infection and Bloodstream infections.
From page 344...
... Guillaume Lhermie, D.V.M., M.Sc., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in animal health and veterinary public health economics at the University of Toulouse, France, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. A veterinarian by training, he also has an M.Sc.
From page 345...
... He is also the Chief of Infectious Diseases at Rhode Island Hospital and the Miriam Hospital and the Director of the COBRE Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Therapeutic Discovery. He is the Assistant Dean for outpatient investigations and the Director of the Center for Outpatient and Longitudinal Medical Research at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a Professor of molecular microbiology and immunology.
From page 346...
... The goal of his extension program is to develop antimicrobial stewardship guidelines and best management practices that reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance while maintaining the health and welfare of the herds and flocks. His research work is focused on understanding the dynamics and risks for antimicrobial resistance in livestock and the development of health management strategies for reduced antimicrobial resistance and improved health and welfare of herds and flocks.
From page 347...
... Dr. Sertkaya has led dozens of economic/policy analysis studies related to antibacterial products, diabetes intervention, unit dose medication barcoding, adoption of MedDRA for postmarketing periodic safety report submissions to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
From page 348...
... Her recent work on AMR has included evaluation of prairie strips as a mitigation strategy to reduce export to downstream waters and watershed-scale monitoring of AMR indicators. Andy Stergachis, Ph.D., M.S., B.Pharm., is a Professor of pharmacy and global health and an Adjunct Professor of health metrics sciences, epidemiology, and health systems and population health, the Director of the Global Medicines Program, and the Associate Dean for research, Graduate Studies and New Initiatives, School of Pharmacy, University of Washington (UW)
From page 349...
... and the Academic Advisory Committee for the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, and on five committees for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where she was the Vice Chair of the Forum on Microbial Threats through 2019. She was a member of the Pew National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, whose report, Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America, was released in 2008.
From page 350...
... at the interface of human and animal medicine. His research has discovered emerging AMR threats, novel antibiotic resistance mechanisms, and the co-evolution of bacterial virulence, along with AMR in zoonotic and foodborne pathogens.


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