Professor Kristen Reyher
BSc(Florida), DVM(Cornell), PhD(UPEI), MRCVS
Expertise
Kristen leads an interdisciplinary research group (AMR Force) focussed on antimicrobial resistance and also works on veterinary-client communication as well as evidence-based veterinary medicine.
Current positions
Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology and Population Health
Bristol Veterinary School
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Biography
Kristen has worked in livestock veterinary practice in three countries and holds a Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University in New York state as well as a PhD in veterinary epidemiology from the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Kristen currently leads an interdisciplinary research group (the AMR Force) focussed on antimicrobial resistance with more than £10 million of funding from public sources as well as charities and industry. She also directed the first studies applying a counselling style called Motivational Interviewing to veterinarian-client communication. Kristen was the principal investigator for the Global Resource for Online Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine (EBVM) Learning project which produced the widely used EBVM eLearning site EBVMLearning.org. Her past accomplishments include successfully organising the data collection platform for Canada’s largest livestock research effort through the Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network. She is interested in making research more accessible (and accomplish-able) to veterinary practitioners worldwide.
Research interests
Kristen Reyher is Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology and Population Health at the Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol. She has worked in livestock practice in three countries, and holds a doctorate of veterinary medicine from Cornell University as well as a PhD in veterinary epidemiology from the Atlantic Veterinary College in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Kristen currently leads an interdisciplinary research group (the AMR Force) focussed on antimicrobial resistance with more than £10 million of funding from public sources as well as charities and industry. She also directed the first studies applying a counselling style called Motivational Interviewing to veterinarian-client communication. Kristen was the principal investigator for the Global Resource for Online Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine Learning project which produced the widely used EBVM eLearning site ebvmlearning.org, and is involved in EBVM on many levels. Her past accomplishments include successfully organising the data collection platform for Canada’s largest livestock research effort through the Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network and she is interested in making research more accessible (and accomplish-able) to veterinary practitioners worldwide.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
AI to monitor changes in social behaviour for the early detection of disease in dairy cattle
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/07/2023 to 30/06/2026
Canada_IPAP - Impacts of antibiotic usage reduction in farmed animals
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
08/03/2023 to 07/01/2025
FARMS-SAFE ODA EOI (GCRFN11)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/04/2022 to 31/03/2023
Future-proofing Antibacterial resistance Risk Management Surveillance and Stewardship in the Argentinian Farming Environment ( farm safe )
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/04/2021 to 30/09/2021
8054 BBSRC BB/T004592/1 FARMS-SAFE: Future-proofing Antibacterial resistance Risk Management Surveillance and Stewardship in the Argentinian Farming Environment Additional Funds
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Veterinary SchoolDates
01/04/2020 to 31/05/2023
Thesis supervisions
Understanding Prescription Veterinary Medicine Use on UK Dairy Farms
Supervisors
Barriers to population level AMR research in UK livestock and opportunities for data science
Supervisors
Resistance to critically important antibiotics beyond humans and farm environments
Supervisors
Statistical modelling methodology for investigating risk factors of antimicrobial use and resistance
Supervisors
Improving dairy cattle welfare
Supervisors
Risk factors for the carriage of antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli in puppies and adult dogs
Supervisors
Farmer innovation for improvement of animal health and welfare
Supervisors
A participatory, farmer-led approach to changing practice around antimicrobial use on UK dairy farms
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
20/03/2024Genomic epidemiology of third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli from Argentinian pig and dairy farms reveals animal-specific patterns of co-resistance and resistance mechanisms
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Clinician Motivational Interviewing skills in ‘simulated’ and ‘real-life’ consultations differ and show predictive validity for ‘real life’ client Change Talk under differing integrity thresholds
PeerJ Life & Environment
Communicating without words
Journal of Dairy Science
‘I Believe What I’m Saying More Than the Test’
Antibiotics
One health transmission of fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli and risk factors for their excretion by dogs living in urban and nearby rural settings
One Health
Teaching
Kristen makes substantial contributions to teaching across all 5 years of BVSc as well as the Accelerated Graduate Entry Programme for veterinarians. She is the Embedded Theme Lead for evidence-based veterinary medicine across these curricula and has created 2 new directed self-evaluations on evidence-based veterinary medicine, including introducing Knowledge Summaries into the Bristol veterinary curricula. She is Bristol's champion for the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination and also served on the School's Education Recovery Group during the Covid-19 pandemic. She has served as the Bovine Element Lead for BVSc1 as well as the Farm Animal Lead for final year BVSc MCQs.