Mahdi Saeed
Professor
Michigan State University
USA
Biography
Mahdi Saeed is a professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases with a joint appointment in large-animal clinical sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Epidemiology in the College of Human Medicine and the National food Safety Center at Michigan State University. His main areas of research are the causes and prevention of food borne illnesses. Currently, Dr. Saeed is leading research at the National Food Safety Center on the virulence evolution of Salmonella Enteritidis that led to the emergence of this serotype to become one of the most common foodborne pathogens. Dr. Saeed is the editor-in-chief of Salmonella Enterica Serovar Enteritidis in Humans and Animals: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Control, a book cited in medical journals and chosen by reviewers as one of the best 200 out of 2,800 medical books.
Research Interest
food borne illnesses, Enteritidis in Humans and Animals, Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Control