My research currently focuses on antibiotic usage and antimicrobial resistance. In order to retain the ability to fight life-threatening disease with antibiotics, we need to limit inappropriate usage which contributes to resistance. This entails surveillance of current antimicrobial usage and resistance patterns, discovery of biomarkers that can be used to guide antimicrobial therapy, changes in policy to encourage appropriate antimicrobial usage and education of new veterinarians to the importance of good antimicrobial stewardship.