World-Renowned Expert on Antibiotic Use and Resistance to Give Talk at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Stuart Levy, professor of molecular biology, microbiology and medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine, will give a talk titled "When Antibiotics Fail: Consequences to Individual and Public Health" on April 25 at 7 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The event is free and open to the public.

Levy says using antibiotics to prevent rather than treat illnesses is resulting in the development of resistant strains of bacteria. He says that with the number of resistant strains of bacteria growing, finding antibiotics to effectively treat people is a primary concern.

Levy is the president of the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, and is director of the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance at Tufts University. He is the author of more than 200 journal articles and the book The Antibiotic Paradox: How the Misuse of Antibiotics Destroys Their Curative Powers. He has appeared or been featured in the national and international press, including Time, The New York Times, Washington Post, and in a cover story for Newsweek in 1994. He also appeared on television shows such as Primetime Live, 48 Hours, the Today show, Good Morning America, and other major U.S. television network news shows. He is a graduate of Williams College and the medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, did his residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York and post-doctoral work at the National Institutes of Health.

The talk is cosponsored by the biochemistry concentration, chemistry department, the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture and the National Science Foundation.