DrAna Pereira Do Vale

Dr Ana Vale is an Assistant Professor in Veterinary Public Health at School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin. Ana obtained her DVM at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon. She spent 8 years as a small animal clinician and in 2013, after completing a MVS in Conservation Medicine at Murdoch University, she moved to University College Dublin to undertake her PhD, and investigate antimicrobial resistance in animals. Since 2018 she has worked as a lecturer in Microbiology. Her research interests include antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship, One Health, zoonotic and foodborne diseases, wildlife medicine, conservation medicine, and microbial endocrinology. Her current research is focused on the characterisation of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and zoonotic diseases using the One Health approach. Ana is the ENOVAT COST Action Advisory Board Administrator, co-chair of the working group on veterinary practice guidelines for antimicrobial use in post weaning diarrhea in pigs, and the Irish representative on the ENOVAT Management Committee. Additionally, she is a member of the Veterinary Council of Ireland, the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), the ESCMID study group for Veterinary Microbiology (ESGVM), the ESCMID study group for Antimicrobial stewardship (ESGAP), the International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases, the European Wildlife Disease Association (EWDA) and the European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians. Ana is also a member of the EWDA Sustainability Committee, and Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland steering group for the construction of the first wildlife hospital in Ireland.