John F. Prescott is a retired veterinary bacteriologist and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, where he was Chair of the Department of Pathobiology from 2003-2008. He has published extensively on bacterial infections in animals and has also been active for many years in promoting antimicrobial stewardship in Canadian agriculture and veterinary medicine. Although retired, he continues to publish on antimicrobial stewardship and on bacterial pathogenesis. He was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2008. His family has lived with CFS for over 30 years. He and his wife Cathy enjoy being grandparents.