Dr David George White

Dr David White serves as the Associate Dean for Research and Associate Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture.

He previously served in several positions in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine including Chief Science Officer /Research Director and Acting Director of the Office of Resource Planning and Strategic Management. Before that he served as the Director of the Division of Animal and Food Microbiology and Program Director of the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) and Director of the Office of Research at FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine.

Dr White is an editor of the book “Frontiers in Antibiotic Resistance”, ASM Press, Washington D.C. and is on the editorial board of Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. He previously served as co-chair of the U.S. Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance, the U.S Delegate to the Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance and member of the Ad hoc group on Antimicrobial Resistance, Office International des Epizooties (OIE). Most recently he was appointed to the Board of Directors for the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy’s Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA), and the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB).