Professor Dorina Timofte

Dorina is Professor of Veterinary Clinical Microbiology at University of Liverpool and has a long-standing career in veterinary clinical microbiology. Dorina is an RCVS Specialist in Veterinary Microbiology and a Diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology (ECVM); at Liverpool she established the first ECVM Residency training programme and is currently the ECVM vice-president.

Dorina is involved in several European initiatives (ENOVAT, EARS-VET) focusing on the development of veterinary clinical microbiology and raising the role profile of the veterinary microbiology laboratory in antimicrobial stewardship.  She is leading the VMD funded VetCLIN_AMR project which involves close collaboration with UK veterinary diagnostic laboratories aiming to harmonise microbiology laboratory methodologies impacting on surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in companion animals.  Dorina’s research focuses on surveillance and genomic epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in companion animals, thereby tracking interspecies transmission of multidrug resistant bacteria between humans and animals within a closely shared environment such us households and/or in the context of healthcare associated infections in human and veterinary hospitals.