Dr. Jeff Watts is the associate research fellow, head, Laboratory Sciences, Microbiology Support Laboratory at the Veterinary Medicine Research and Development facility for Pfizer Animal Health. That’s a long title and he’s in charge of some pretty serious research. At the recent media event held at the VMRD he spoke about, “antimicrobial susceptibility testing of BRD pathogens.”

Wow. You may not think you will understand something that sounds that complex but you’d be wrong. He put what he does in easy to understand language which I needed when I interviewed him. First he reviews the type of research he’s done. To start with he focuses on their products and checking for resistance. Since Pfizer has several products to treat for BRD which have different modes of action he says the producer has choices which they can use if a resistance problem were to show up.

You can listen to my interview with Dr. Watts here: pfizer-vmrd-07-watts.mp3

Or if you’d like you can download it here: Dr. Jeff Watts Interview