Dr. Raghavendra (Raghu) Amachawadi is an Associate Professor of Food Animal Therapeutics in the Department of Clinical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University. Raghu received his B.V.Sc. (Bachelors in Veterinary Science) from the Veterinary School in Bangalore, India followed by his M.S. and PhD (2014) in Microbiology/Epidemiology from Kansas State University. Dr. Amachawadi’s research uses a multidisciplinary approach to study emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria and at developing and evaluating novel intervention strategies, particularly antimicrobial alternatives to control liver abscesses and bovine respiratory diseases, with the ultimate goal to minimize antimicrobial resistance in food animal production systems. Raghu’s research has generated over $7.3 million in funding and 101 refereed publications, 3 book chapters, 8 published gene sequences and 2 bacterial strains deposited at the American Type Culture Collection. Dr. Amachawadi resides in Manhattan, KS with his wife, Amoolya, son, Pranav, and daughter, Charvi.