Overuse of antibiotics, very tight downtime, production of biofilms, flock overcrowding, and inadequate disposal of dead chickens, here is a list of some of the practices that promote the presence and multiplication of microbes on our farms. This presentation will review the strategies ensuring the diversity and expression of infectious diseases in poultry production.
Dr. Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt is a full professor at the Veterinary Medicine Faculty of the University of Montreal. He has completed his doctorate in veterinary medicine (1983) and his masters in clinical sciences (1986) at University of Montreal and his Ph.D. in population medicine at The University of Minnesota (1990).
He has been a professor at Guelph University (1990-1996), North Carolina State University (1996-2004) and was the visiting professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2002-2003) and the École nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse, France (2017-2018).
He was the recipient of many awards: The Bayer-Snoeyenbos New Investigator Award from the American Association of Avian Pathologists (1997); The Exceptional Clinical Service Award in North Carolina (1998); The US Poultry & Egg Association Lamplighter Award for his contributions to the US poultry industry with his research on infectious diseases and biosecurity (2004). He was chosen as Foreign Correspondant for the Académie française de médecine vétérinaire (2012) and the Académie nationale de médecine (2016). In 2019, the French government named him Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole.
He was a member of several Canadian Advisory Committees for the fight against poultry, swine and beef cattle infectious diseases. He currently serves as an expert on several working groups at the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail de France.
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