Prof. Dr. Shabbir Simjee

DR SHABBIR SIMJEE

Dr Simjee graduated from the University of Birmingham Medical School in England in 1992, he then specialised in infectious diseases completing a MSc in 1994 and a PhD in 1998 also from the University of Birmingham Medical School. After a brief time in research he went to work at the US FDA between 2000-2003 at the Centre for Veterinary Medicine specifically looking at gene transfer between animal and human pathogens and also heading the enterococcus part of the US National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring Systems (NARMS) program. He returned back to the UK in 2004 to take up a position at Elanco Animal Health where he is a microbiologist with global responsibilities related to R&D and Regulatory Affairs.

Dr Simjee is past-chair of the VetPath program a Pan European AMR monitoring program and is currently the co-chair of the CLSI veterinary antimicrobial susceptibility testing sub-committee. He is also advisor to the FAO on setting up national AMR monitoring programs across SE Asia. Dr Simjee has served 9 years as editor for Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 10 years as editor for Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and continues to serve as editor on International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.