Speakers
Foreign Animal Disease Training Course
July 20 - 24, 2009
Fort Collins, Colorado
C. Brown / S.P. Cuneo / A. Knight / T. McKenna / K. Pabilonia / A. Pelzel / J. Rhyan / K. Roehr / M.D. Salman / J. Scanga / JL Tickel / J. Traub-Dargatz / D. Van Metre
Dr. Corrie Brown
Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of Veterinary Pathology
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Georgia
Dr. Corrie Brown received her B.Sc. in Animal Behavior from McGill University and her DVM from Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph (1981). She completed a combined residency/PhD in Comparative Pathology at the University of California at Davis. Board certification (ACVP) and PhD were both attained in 1986. She was an assistant professor of pathology at Louisiana State University briefly before joining the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Plum Island, where, as Head of the Pathology Section, she specialized in the diagnosis and pathogenesis of foreign animal diseases. In 1996, she joined the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine as Professor and Head of the Department of Veterinary Pathology. She currently serves as Coordinator of International Veterinary Medicine for the College of Veterinary Medicine. Her professional interests are in infectious diseases of food-producing animals, emerging diseases, and international veterinary medicine. She has published or presented over 250 scientific papers and has testified to Congress on issues involving agriterrorism. She has served on numerous industrial and federal panels and is a member of the Secretary of Agriculture’s Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases, the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Xenotransplantation, and the Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee. Dr. Brown’s loves of infectious diseases, pathology, people, food animals, and different cultures have come together into a career that lets her enjoy all of these!
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Dr. S. Peder Cuneo
Extension Veterinarian
University of Arizona
Dr. Peder Cuneo obtained his DVM in 1979 and a MS in Animal Science from the University of California at Davis. After graduation from veterinary school, Dr. Cuneo was in mixed large animal veterinary practice from 1979 to 1986 in northern California. From 1986 to 1988, Dr. Cuneo served as an assistant state veterinarian for California. Beginning in1988 to 2001, he was the attending farm animal veterinarian for the University of Arizona. Dr. Cuneo has been the Extension Veterinarian for the University of Arizona since 2001.
At the present time, Dr. Cuneo provides Case Management and First Responder Training through the Arizona Livestock Incident Response Team (ALIRT). He conducts field investigations through the Arizona VCL and ALIRT. Moreover, he works in the area of production livestock welfare issues.
His areas of interest include production veterinary medicine with emphases on improving reproductive performance of cattle and post weaning health performance. Furthermore, Dr. Cuneo has a special interest in emerging diseases and foreign animal disease and their interaction with public information and policy.
Dr. Tony Knight
Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Colorado State University
Dr. Tony Knight received his BVSc from the University of East Africa in 1968, a MS degree from Colorado State University in 1971, and board Certification (ACVIM, large animal) in 1980. He joined the faculty of Colorado State in 1973 and served as the Chair of the Department of Clinical Sciences from 1986-2003. His clinical and research interests include food animal medicine, plant toxicology, infectious diseases of large animals, and zoonotic diseases. Tony is one of the authors of a well-known book on plant toxicology titled, A Guide to Plant Poisoning of Animals in North America, 2001. He serves as the Foreign Animal Disease Training Course Coordinator.
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Dr. Tom McKenna
Director
Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Dr. Thomas McKenna became Director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL) in March 2007. WVDL is a full service, state-of-the-art veterinary diagnostic laboratory with a focus on serving the Wisconsin dairy and bovine genetics industries. Before becoming WVDL Director, Dr. McKenna spent 13 years at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC). His last six year at PIADC were spent as the Director of the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (FADDL). Plum Island is the only location in the United States where many of the infectious foreign animal disease agents can be studied. At FADDL, Dr. McKenna oversaw the diagnosis of exotic livestock diseases, coordinated the treatment and testing for imported livestock and animal products, trained veterinarians in the recognition and diagnosis of foreign animal diseases, and supervised the North American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine Bank. McKenna joined FADDL in 1995 having completed a PhD in Microbiology from University of California – Davis (UCD), where he worked on recombinant DNA vaccine development for Rinderpest and genetic reassortment of the bovine T-cell receptor. In addition to his PhD, he holds a B.S. in Business and Economics from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA., a B.S. in Biological Science from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and a DVM from UCD.
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Dr. Kristy Pabilonia
Avian Disease Diagnostic Veterinarian
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Colorado State University
After graduation from veterinary school, Dr. Kristy Pabilonia completed a Microbiology Residency at Colorado State University, where she studied infectious disease and laboratory diagnostics, with an emphasis in poultry diseases. She is currently a Diagnostic Veterinarian and Assistant Professor at Colorado State University. In this position, she oversees two sections of the CSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (Avian Diseases and BSL3 Select Agents) and teaches veterinary students a variety of course topics, including emerging infectious diseases and poultry disease management. She serves as Coordinator of the Colorado Avian Disease Surveillance Program and the Colorado Poultry Health Board. Kristy is currently working on numerous avian influenza virus research projects in the US and Indonesia. She is a Diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists.
Dr. Angela Pelzel
Western Regional Epidemiologist - Poultry, Equine
USDA APHIS Veterinary Services
Dr. Pelzel is a Regional Epidemiologist with USDA, APHIS, Veterinary Services and currently covers poultry and equine disease issues for the 23 states located in the Western Region. She is an honors graduate of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science, a Bachelor of Science in Veterinary Science, and a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine. Upon graduating from veterinary school, she spent 3 years exclusively in equine private practice in central Texas and still practices equine emergency medicine currently in northern Colorado.
In 2004, Dr. Pelzel became a veterinary epidemiologist for the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) where she led the epidemiological investigations and responses to the 2004 outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza in Gonzales, Texas and low pathogenic H7N3 avian influenza in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Following the AI outbreaks, Dr. Pelzel continued to serve TAHC in several responses to other reportable poultry diseases in the state, such as infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) and duck viral enteritis outbreaks. Additionally, she has led the epidemiological investigation and responses to the 2004/2005 vesicular stomatitis outbreaks in Texas, multiple fever tick outbreaks, bovine and equine babesiosis incidents, and the 2005 Texas BSE case.
In 2005, Dr. Pelzel joined USDA, APHIS, Veterinary Services as the Texas Area Epidemiology Officer with an added role as poultry/equine specialist and outbreak epidemiologist for the Texas Area Office. In September 2006 she was promoted to the Western Regional office in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she currently serves as a regional epidemiologist. At the regional level, Dr. Pelzel has led a number of recent outbreak responses since 2006, including six H5/H7 low pathogenic avian influenza incidents, Wyoming brucellosis 2008, Texas malignant catarrhal fever (MCF) 2008, contagious equine metritis (CEM) 2009, vesicular stomatitis 2009, and equine piroplasmosis 2009.
Dr. Jack Rhyan
Wildlife Disease Investigator
USDA, APHIS, VS, WRO, National Wildlife Research Center
Dr. Rhyan is a veterinarian and wildlife disease investigator for the APHIS, VS Western Regional office and is located at the National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins, CO. He received his DVM and MS from Auburn University and has maintained an interest in wildlife diseases during four years of mixed veterinary practice, nine years as a pathologist in state diagnostic laboratories and seven years at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, IA. Since 1997, Jack has been located at the National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins, CO, where he's involved in research on brucellosis in wildlife, oral vaccine development for wildlife applications, contraception as a tool for wildlife disease management, marine mammal brucellosis, foot and mouth disease in wildlife, and chronic wasting disease in cervids.
Dr. Keith Roehr
State Veterinarian
Colorado Department of Agriculture
Dr. Keith Roehr was raised on a family farm in western Kansas that included irrigated corn and wheat production in addition to small cow/calf and swine operations. He completed his DVM from Kansas State University in 1981 and entered private veterinary practice. In 1995, Dr. Roehr joined the State Veterinarian's Office of the Colorado Department of Agriculture and recently became State Veterinarian. He is a member of the US Animal Health Association and co-chairs the committee of Animal Emergency Management.
Dr. Mo Salman
Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology, Department of Clinical Sciences
Founder, Animal Population Health Institute
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Colorado State University
Mo Salman is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences and founder and a major researcher within the Animal Population Health Institute of College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University. In 2008, Dr. Salman was awarded Colorado State University’s Scholarship Impact Award, one of the highest annual honors given by the university. Dr. Salman's numerous recognitions to date include a Fulbright Scholarship in 1991, the American Humane Association's Waco F. Childers award in 1998, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Administrative Award for Animal Health in 2007 and the American Veterinary Medical Association's Twelfth International Veterinary Congress Award in 2007.
Dr. Salman’s educational background is in veterinary medicine (BVMS), preventive veterinary medicine (MPVM), and comparative pathology (Ph.D.). His research interests focus on surveillance and survey methodologies for animal diseases with emphasis on infectious diseases. He is editor of a book on surveillance and survey methods and applications.
Dr. Salman is the author of over 180 refereed papers in scientific journals and has participated in numerous conferences, and national and international meetings in over 25 years as a faculty member at Colorado State University. He has served on the board of scientific journals (Journal of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and American Journal of Veterinary Research) and he is the section editor for the epidemiology section of Animal Health Review. He is a past president of the Conference of Research Workers on Animal Disease. He serves on several national and international professional and scientific committees in the animal health sectors. He is a past chairman of the International Committee of the International Society of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE) and the immediate past chairman of the US Animal Health Committee on Foreign and Emerging Diseases. Dr. Salman holds a position on the peer review of the European Union and the International Animal Health Organization (OIE) scientific review for the geographical assessment for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
Dr. John Scanga
Vice President of Technical Services
Meat Division
IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group
John Scanga received his Ph.D. in Animal Sciences in December of 1999 from Colorado State University and joined the faculty at the Center for Meat Safety and Quality at Colorado State University as an Assistant Professor and Extension Meat Specialist. He became an Associate Professor in 2005. In January 2008, Dr. Scanga joined the IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group team as Vice President of Technical Services in the company’s Meat Division. His areas of expertise include harvest floor best practices, sanitary dressing, red meat quality, carcass value optimization, multiple hurdles intervention systems, and process control deviation root cause analysis. In addition to serving as Vice President of Technical Services, he is the scientific advisor to the Colorado Association of Meat Processors, sits on the CSU Veterinary Diagnostic Lab Advisory Board and supports 4H youth education programs in Weld County where he resides with his wife and two sons.
TopDr. JL Tickel
North Carolina Deprtment of Agriculture & Community Services
Emergency Programs Division
Dr. Tickel is a 1987 graduate of North Carolina State University, College of Veterinary Medicine graduate. At this time he is a Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostician and Adjunct faculty member in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University. Dr. Tickel was with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture for 19 yrs and with its Emergency Programs as Disease/Disaster Planner/Responder since its inception. He has experience responding to Hurricane Floyd and the UK FMD outbreak. Dr. Tickel is currently involved with FAD issues at the local, state, and national level. Furthermore, he is participates in regional and national FMD Business Continuity Workshops.
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Dr. Josie Traub-Dargatz
Professor of Equine Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science
Colorado State University
Dr. Traub-Dargatz is a professor of equine medicine at Colorado State University (CSU), College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, in Fort Collins, Colorado. She began her veterinary training at the University of Illinois and then went on to do a Large Animal Internship at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center, Kennett Square, PA. She practiced several years in an equine practice in Maple Plain, MN before deciding to go back for further training in internal medicine at Washington State University in Pullman WA. She obtained a Masters Degree in Clinical Sciences from WSU in 1982 and board certification with the American College of Internal Medicine (ACVIM) in 1985.
Dr. Traub-Dargatz served as a clinician in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at CSU from 1983 until recently when she has expanded her training and research interest beyond the care of individual ill horses in the hospital to include population based studies. Her research now focuses on the diagnosis and control of equine infectious diseases. Dr. Traub-Dargatz serves as the equine commodity specialist for the USDA:APHIS:VS Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health (CEAH) through a cooperative agreement between CSU and CEAH.
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Dr. Dave Van Metre
Associate Professor
Department of Clinical Sciences
Colorado State University
Dr. Van Metre is an Associate Professor in the Animal Population Health Institute, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Dr. Van Metre received his DVM degree from Cornell University in 1989 and completed a residency in food animal medicine at the University of California at Davis in 1993. He was a faculty member in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Kansas State University prior to starting at CSU in late 1999. Dr. Van Metre's research interests include clostridial diseases of ruminants, bilingual livestock worker training, and livestock disease surveillance.
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