Institution

University of California-Davis

Based in

United States , Davis

Languages

English

Short Bio

Jane Sykes is a Professor at the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine with a special interest in small animal infectious diseases. She obtained her DVM degree and a PhD in veterinary microbiology at the University of Melbourne in Australia, and completed a residency in small animal internal medicine at the University of Minnesota and is a board certified small animal internal medicine specialist. She joined the faculty at UC Davis in 2002, and obtained an MBA from the University of Georgia (2020) and an MPH from Kansas State University (2023) with an emphasis on infectious diseases and zoonoses. She founded the International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases (ISCAID) in 2006, has coauthored over 130 peer-reviewed publications, and is the editor of the textbooks Canine and Feline Infectious Diseases and Greene’s Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat (5th ed). Her research interests are focused on infectious diseases of dogs and cats with public health significance.

Other Expertise

EIDs Epidemiology Veterinary Data Science