Herman W Barkema

Dr. Herman Barkema completed his DVM degree at Utrecht Univ., The Netherlands, in 1988. He spent 2½ years as manager of a large dairy and beef herd in Costa Rica, then taught bovine herd health at Utrecht Univ. and worked as an epidemiologist for the Dutch Animal Health Service while completing his PhD. In 2001, Dr. Barkema moved to the Univ. of Prince Edward Island. He subsequently moved to the Univ. of Calgary, where he founded the Univ. of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine’s (UCVM) Dept. of Production Animal Health. He currently is Professor in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases at UCVM and NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Infectious Diseases of Dairy Cattle, and United Nations University Chair in Infectious Diseases in a Changing Climate, with a joint appointment in the Dept. of Community Health Sciences of the Cumming School of Medicine. He is also a Foreign Expert at the China Agricultural University in Beijing. Dr. Barkema’s research program focuses on prevention and control of diseases in cattle herds, including antimicrobial resistance. He has published > 425 scientific manuscripts and book chapters (Google Scholar h-index = 100), received > $55M in research funding, has lectured all over the world, and is the most highly cited researcher worldwide in cattle diseases. He leads One Health at UCalgary, the Antimicrobial Resistance – One Health Consortium, and CAN-AMR-NET. Dr. Barkema is a fellow and a member of the board of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and he has received a large number of awards including the biennial Plowright Prize of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Phone: +1 (403) 220-2659
Address: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary
3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Calgary