An accomplished and highly acclaimed speaker, Dr. Brecher is well known and appreciated for his ability to make you laugh while he is telling you that bacteria are the dominant species on the earth and that your days are numbered. Dr. Stephen M. Brecher is the Director of the Microbiology Laboratories of the Boston VA Healthcare System and holds academic appointments at the Boston University School of Medicine, Northeastern University and at University of Massachusetts/Darthmouth. Dr. Brecher has been honored as an American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Foundation Speaker and has convened and lectured at workshops on antibiotic resistance for the ASM at annual meetings and at ICAAC (the “infections meeting”). Dr. Brecher is on the speaker’s bureau for Abbott, Merck, Ortho-McNeil, Schering-Plough, the Robert Michael Educational Foundation and Cubist. He also has provided in-house training on antibiotics to sales representative, district, regional and national managers and to medical scientific liaisons.