Speakers

Thirty years of experience within the animal and human pharmaceutical industry as director of toxicology and/or general pharmacology departments or as Consultant for major pharmaceutical/feed additives companies or national firms. Supervision of hundreds of R&D projects, leading to Approval by regulatory authorities of a number of new products currently on the market (feed additives, veterinary drugs, biocidal products).  

Dr. Chatenet is a veterinarian and bird expert with more than two decades of field experience. Between 2010 and 2019 he travelled the world to give seminars and trainings to avail poultry health and improve management practices. The past six months Dr. Chatenet devoted his time to bring practical insights to the pharmaceutical industry and initiated the development of a field test to detect for resistance genes in bacteria.

Dr. Boudewijn Catry (DVM °2000, PhD °2005) is a researcher with a special interest in antimicrobial resistance, both in veterinary and human medicine. Between 2000 and 2007, he combined ambulatory practice & obstetrics as a veterinary surgeon with laboratory research at the Ghent University (Ugent). Hereafter he started to work at Sciensano where he is since 2009 in charge of the service Healthcare associated Infections & Antimicrobial Resistance (www.nsih.be). He is involved in national and international committees on the prudent use of antimicrobials and infection prevention. He is co-founder (°2013) of the outbreak support team for multidrug resistant organisms in Belgian hospitals (MDRO-OST). Since 2018 he is lecturer epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine in Brussels (Université libre de Bruxelles,ULB).