Chris Shaffer Ph.D.

After growing up in Springfield, Ohio, the son of working parents who owned and operated an auto body shop, Chris decided to become an educator. For 45 years, Chris Shaffer was a music teacher and high school principal. Toward the end of his career, he was thrown into the nightmare world of AMR (Antimicrobial-Resistant) infection when he was diagnosed with Bacterial Prostatitis E. Coli with ESBL. Rather than follow the ordinary protocol using failing antibiotics, Chris opted for finding his own cure. Chris discovered that Phage Therapy was a treatment widely used in Tbilisi, Georgia for the past one hundred years but little known in Western medicine. Knowing that antibiotics were not going to effectively treat the E. coli, and an early death would be the likely outcome, Chris opted to fly halfway around the world to Tbilisi and undergo Phage Therapy. Chris tells a deeply personal story about how he came to be cured using a technology much older than antibiotics.