Texas A&M and Cornell team up for AMR researchJune 25, 2018 Texas A&M and Cornell universities are working together to advance the research of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in veterinary medical education and streamline communications for underrepresented students in the field, reports Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM). Funded by a $300,000 federal grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, researchers from both institutions will work in tandem to develop and study the impact of a collection of competency-based educational resources on AMR in order to aid veterinary education programs across the U.S. "Antimicrobial resistance poses an increasingly serious threat to global health, and veterinarians must be properly equipped to assume leadership roles in addressing this challenge," said Kevin Cummings, DVM, Ph.D., principal investigator for Cornell University. "Crucial to the success of the AMR mitigation effort is the need to educate a wide variety of stakeholders about proper antimicrobial stewardship in production agriculture." The monies will go toward research focused on the development of multidisciplinary lessons on AMR, as well as the creation of an online platform to share resources with veterinary colleges across the country and increase community for underrepresented student populations regarding career opportunities in …
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Cornell names Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife HealthJuly 14, 2016Steven A. Osofsky, DVM, recently joined Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine as the Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife Health. The position is within the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences.
