Bill Sischo
A professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Dr. Sischo’s research focuses on:
- quality management for dairy farms (including risk assessment)
- local and regional ecology of pathogens of public health significance with a primary focus on Salmonella and Escherichia coli
- issues of rural and urban geographic interface
A nationally recognized expert in food safety, Dr. Sischo will direct the School for Global Animal Health’s new doctoral program in animal health policy and metrics. The first program of its kind in the nation, it aims to educate the next generation of leaders in animal health to develop and implement effective science-based policy.
Dr. Sischo was named the 2007 Cello Lecturer at the University of California. In 2006 he was a National Library of Medicine (NLM) Medical Informatics Course Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.