Dr. Peter Gerner-Smidt is a Danish MD, ScD with specialty in clinical microbiology. He is the chief of the Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch in the Division for Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, United States. Before moving to the United States in 2004, he was the Head of the Danish Reference Centre for Enteric Pathogens and Listeria at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen. His research interests are the epidemiology, including subtyping and identification of foodborne, zoonotic and enteric bacterial pathogens. He has co-authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, the majority dealing with bacterial taxonomy, identification, epidemiology, and subtyping. He is leading the effort to implement whole genome sequencing for surveillance of bacterial foodborne infections at CDC and involved in its implementation globally through the Global Microbial Identifier initiative, PulseNet International and the WHOGFN.
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