Experts in Environmental and Medical Microbiology
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Richard Summerbell, PhD

Dr. Richard Summerbell is teh Research Director of Sporometrics and one of the world’s foremost experts on fungi affecting human and environmental health. He is also an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He is the author of over 180 peer-reviewed scientific papers on fungi and bacteria, and co-authored two popular laboratory manuals, “Identifying Filamentous Fungi” and “Laboratory Handbook of Dermatophytes”. Dr. Summerbell is currently an Associate Professor of Occupational & Environmental Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto), and Research Director at Sporometrics Inc. Prior to joining Sporometrics, Dr. Summerbell spend a decade as the Chief of Medical Mycology at the Ontario Ministry of Health Central Public Health Lab in Toronto, followed by 6 years as a Senior Scientist and Group Leader at the Westerdijk Institute (formerly Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures) in Utrecht, The Netherlands, which it the world premier mycological institute and a branch of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.

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