Dorina Timofte (DVM, PhD, DiplECVM, MRCVS) is a tenured Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Microbiology in the Liverpool University School of Veterinary Science where she leads the Veterinary Microbiology Laboratory and is Chair of the Biosecurity and infection Control Committee. Dorina is a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Specialist in Veterinary Pathology (Microbiology) and Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology (ECVM) and has established a Veterinary microbiology Residency Training programme at Liverpool. Her research focuses on antimicrobial resistance in humans and companion animals, including surveillance and molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant pathogens in clinical and environmental bacteria, particularly in clinical and veterinary hospital environments.