Phi Zeta features talk by One Health expert on April 11
The University of Georgia Phi Zeta Veterinary Honor Society will be holding its Awards and Induction Ceremony on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. in Room H237 of the College of Veterinary Medicine at University of Georgia.
The event will featuring a One Health talk on “Bartonellosis: Of Cats, Dogs, Mice and Men” by Edward Breitschwerdt, DVM, professor of internal medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University.
Edward B. Breitschwerdt is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. He is also an adjunct professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center, and a Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM). Breitschwerdt directs the Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory in the Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research at North Carolina State University. He also co-directs the Vector Borne Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory and is the director of the NCSU-CVM Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory.
A graduate of the University of Georgia, Breitschwerdt completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri between 1974 and 1977. He has served as president of the Specialty of Internal Medicine and as chairman of the ACVIM Board of Regents. He is a former associate editor for the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine and was a founding member of the ACVIM Foundation. Breitschwerdt’s clinical interests include infectious diseases, immunology, and nephrology.
For over 20 years, his research has emphasized vector-transmitted, intracellular pathogens. Most recently, he has contributed to cutting-edge research in the areas of animal and human bartonellosis. In addition to authoring numerous book chapters and proceedings, Dr. Breitschwerdt’s research group has published more than 240 manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals.