Professor John F. Prescott is the Centre’s Adjunct International Board Member and is based in the Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
		He graduated VetMB from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1973 and PhD from the same University in 1977 and has worked at the Ontario Veterinary College as a bacteriologist since 1976. He has had diverse interests in bacterial infections in animals, but is best known for work in the area of Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in foals, an area on which he has organized four international Workshops. He is also as an editor and author of the text “Antimicrobial Therapy in Veterinary Medicine” by Prescott, Baggot and Walker (Blackwell, 4th ed.). He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers as well as numerous book chapters, most notably in the area of rhocococcal pneumonia, leptospirosis, effective antimicrobial drug use, equine bacterial disease, and necrotic enteritis of chickens.  He has been Co-Editor-in-Chief of Veterinary Microbiology (Elsevier Science), a member Canadian Veterinary Medical Association Council, Co-Chair of the 2005 national conference on Agriculture’s Role in Managing Antimicrobial Resistance: The Road to prudent Use, and a Director of the Canadian Committee on Antibiotic Resistance. He is a member of the advisory committee for the Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses at the University of Guelph. His current active research interests are in immunity and virulence in clostridial infections in animals.