September 22 - 25, 2009
London, England

Principal Organizer
J Scott Weese DVM DVSc DipACVIM
Ontario Veterinary College
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada 

ESCMID Liaison 
Andreas Voss MD, PhD
Professor of Infection Control
Radboud University Medical Centre
Nijmegen
The Netherlands
 

Scientific Committee
Mireille Wulf MD
Clinical Microbiologist
PAMM Laboratory for Medical Microbiology
Veldhoven
The Netherlands 

Yvonne Abbott
Veterinary Sciences Centre,
School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine
University College Dublin,
Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Andrew Hillier BVSc, MACVSc, DACVD
Dept. of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA 

David Lloyd PhD, BVetMed, FRCVS, DipECVD
Professor of Veterinary Dermatology
Dept of Veterinary Clinical Studies
Royal Veterinary College
Hawkshead Campus
Hatfield, UK 

Jeff Bender DVM MS DACVPM
Veterinary Public Health
Dept of Clinical and Population Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Minnesota 

Tim Nuttall BSc BVSc PhD CertVD CBiol MIBiol MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Dermatology,
Department of Clinical Veterinary Science,
The University of Liverpool Faculty of Veterinary Science
Leahurst, Neston, Cheshire, UK

Susan Dawson BVMS PhD MRCVS
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK

Nola Leonard MVB PhD
Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology
University College
Dublin, Ireland

Conference Scope: This meeting will focus on methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS) in animal health and the potential implications thereof for humans. The main focus will be methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The meeting will also include methicillin-resistant S. intermedius, S. schleiferi coagulans and S. pseudintermedius because of their emerging roles in animal disease. The two main areas are; 1) the impact of MRS infection and colonization on animal populations, and; 2) the public health consequences of animal MRS infection and colonization.