179. Leptospirosis in the Shelter Environment

Dr. Jane Sykes is a ACVIM board-certified diplomate and professor of small animal medicine at the University of California, Davis, where she has been on faculty since 2002. She obtained her veterinary and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Melbourne in Australia, completed her residency at the University of Minnesota, and earned an MBA from the University of Georgia. Dr. Sykes has coauthored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, is the editor of the Elsevier textbook "Canine and Feline Infectious Diseases" and Greene's "Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat." She co-founded and was the first president of the International Society of Companion Animal Infectious Diseases (ISCAID) and currently serves as its secretary and treasurer, and she is also the president elect of the ACVIM. Her research interests currently include antimicrobial drug resistant bacterial infections, blood-borne infectious diseases, and deep mycoses.