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Laurel Redding, VMD, PhD, DACVPM

Principal Investigator
 

Dr. Redding is a veterinary epidemiologist with a long-standing interest in how people and animals share microbes—both the good and the bad. She is also passionate about promoting the responsible use of antibiotics in veterinary settings, both to protect animal health and to slow the rise of antimicrobial resistance. She is especially interested in finding practical solutions: designing stewardship programs that work in real-world veterinary practices, or identifying when animal contact is most likely to help or harm human health.

Much of her work bridges veterinary and human medicine and she collaborates routinely with scientists, clinicians, and public health professionals from other health professional schools at Penn, including the medical, nursing, and dental schools.

 

Dr. Redding's research has been supported by the NIH, USDA, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, the Human Animal Bond Research Institute and other funding agencies, and her findings have been published in journals that span veterinary and human medicine. Dr. Redding enjoys mentoring students and trainees who are curious about One Health, infectious disease, and the connections between animals, microbes, and people.

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A "PennWe" through-and-through, she earned her veterinary degree and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, and she is board-certified in veterinary preventive medicine.

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Lynn Hunter

Research Coordinator

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Ms. Hunter is responsible for recruitment and enrollment of study participants as well as sample processing/management and organization. 

Ms. Hunter spent 20 years as a large animal nurse and 15 years working in the OR at the New Bolton Center hospital for large animals before deciding to try her hand at research.

Frequent collaborators

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Much of Dr. Redding's research is collaborative and interdisciplinary. A (non-exhaustive) list of frequent collaborators is below.

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Yucheng Chang, DDS, MS, DMD

Penn Dental

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Brendan Kelly, MD, MSCE

Penn Medicine

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Kyle Bittinger, PhD

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Louise Southwood, PhD, DACVS, DACVECC

Penn Vet

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Stephen Cole, VMD, DACVM

Penn Vet

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Alicia Long, DVM, DACVIM, DACVECC

Penn Vet

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Joseph Zackular, PhD

Penn Medicine

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Dipti Pitta, PhD

Penn Vet

Contact Information

Laurel Redding, VMD, PhD, DACVPM

Department of Clinical Sciences, New Bolton Center

School of Veterinary Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

​lredding@vet.upenn.edu

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