One Health in Veterinary Medical Education 2014 Annual Conference Program Guide

March 14-16, 2014

Westin Alexandria Alexandria, Virginia

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2 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference Dear Colleagues, new generations practice—it also determines how the public understands our profession, which in turn creates During the AAVMC’s 2014 Deans Conference a couple demand and builds support. During this meeting you will months ago in Naples, Florida, The Ohio State University hear scores of presentations that detail how curricular dean Dr. Lonnie King described One Health as a major innovation, field experiences, and interprofessional “point of inflection” in the evolution of . collaborations are helping us prepare for He said he believes it will ultimately create change in success in the emerging area of One Health. our profession on a scale similar to that effected by the development of the internal combustion engine and the You will also hear presentations from leaders representing emerging role of companion animals in society. government agencies and NGOs from the United States and throughout the world that describe the fundamental We have been developing interprofessional collaborations role veterinary medicine is playing—and must continue to and working to educate the public about how the different play—if we are to successfully navigate the challenges in dimensions of veterinary medicine affect human health food security, infectious disease control, and other public and wellbeing for decades. During the past ten years health challenges that are part of the age of globalization. in particular, we have made considerable progress in understanding the necessity of taking a multiprofessional, The AAVMC annual conference is a special opportunity to collaborative approach to working at the intersection of gather, collaborate, envision, and create a better future. animal, human, and environmental health. Please make the most of your conference experience by actively engaging and sharing your own ideas and We have made some progress and many opportunities lie perspectives, both during our program sessions and casual ahead. Many recall the American Medical Association’s hallway discussions. Our goal is for you to return to your House of Delegates passage of Resolution 530 in 2007, universities and workplaces inspired and motivated, ready which called for greater collaboration with veterinary to play a an even larger role than you already do in building medicine on One Health initiatives. The NAVMEC report a better future for veterinary medicine. identified One Health as a major initiative for veterinary medicine, and partner organizations such as the AVMA have fully embraced the concept. Many of our member institutions have major One Health initiatives underway.

We hope this meeting will be a defining moment in the evolving history of the One Health movement. What we Kent Hoblet do in our classrooms and laboratories shapes the way AAVMC President

2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 3 Annual Conference Planning Subcommittee

Kent Hoblet, Chair Karen Hutton-Lopez Mississippi State University Western University of Health Sciences

Deborah Kochevar W. Edward Monroe Tufts University Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine Paul Lunn North Carolina State University Michael Lairmore University of California, Davis Kenita Rogers Texas A&M University Andrew Zoeller, Staff Liaison AAVMC Dominique Griffon Western University of Health Sciences

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Board of Directors Meeting 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Edison EF

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Breakfast 7:00–8:00 a.m. Advocacy Briefing 8:00–9:30 a.m. Edison ABC Advocacy Meetings 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Off-site Congressional Reception 5:00–7:00 p.m. Off-site

Friday, March 14, 2014

Continental Breakfast 7:00–8:00 a.m. Opening Plenary Session 8:00 a.m.–Noon Edison DABC Page 7 Academic Affairs Committee Meeting 8:00 a.m.–Noon Edison EFG Research Committee Meeting 8:00–11:00 a.m. Wright AAVMC Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Noon–1:30 p.m. Edison DABC Page 7 Award Luncheon, Presented by Zoetis Educational Session I 1:30–5:30 p.m. Edison DABC Page 8 Educational Session II 1:30–5:30 p.m. Edison EFG Page 11 AAVMC President’s Reception 6:30–8:30 p.m. Edison Foyer/DABC Page 25 and Poster Session

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Continental Breakfast 7:00–8:00 a.m. Orientation to Twinning Programs 7:00–7:45 a.m. Edison EFG Page 13 Educational Session III 8:00 a.m.–Noon Edison DABC Page 13 Admissions Educational Session 8:00 a.m.–Noon Edison EFG Page 16 AAVMC Recognition Lecture Luncheon Noon–1:30 p.m. Edison DABC Page 18 Educational Session IV 1:30–5:30 p.m. Edison DABC Page 18 Admissions Workshop 1:45–4:30 p.m. Edison EFG Page 16 JVME Editorial Board Meeting 5:30–6:30 p.m. Whitney

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Continental Breakfast 7:00–8:00 a.m. Educational Session V 8:00–11:05 a.m. Edison EFG Page 21 Educational Session VI 8:00–11:05 a.m. Edison DABC Page 22 Closing Workshop 11:05 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Edison DABC Page 24 Career Fair Exhibition Hall 2:30–5:00 p.m. Edison D Career Fair Information Session I 2:30–5:00 p.m. Edison ABC Career Fair Information Session II 2:30–5:00 p.m. Edison EFG

2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 5 Dear Colleagues, committee to develop an exceptional program. And I extend my special thanks to Lisa Greenhill for her On behalf of our entire staff, it’s my pleasure to work in organizing the AAVMC Career Fair, which welcome you to the 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference. pertains so directly to “the future of veterinary We’re glad that you’re here and we’re excited about medicine.” the opportunity to focus on “One Health in Veterinary Medical Education.” Chief Operating Officer Dotty Gray keeps all the wheels turning, Jeff Douglas and Jeanne Johnson Many exciting and innovative One Health initiatives help to get our message across by providing are occurring right now at schools and colleges of outstanding communications products, and McKensie veterinary medicine worldwide. This conference Carr, Mark Stodter, and Lawann Smith-Johnson allows us to bring together some of the best minds provide the necessary support so we can all get the job in academic veterinary medicine and related areas done. to share successful practices, learn about alternative education models and teaching methods, and My hope is that this conference will be an enriching, brainstorm how we can bring our vision for an transformative experience for you, where you will interdisciplinary, interconnected medical future to learn together, interact with others, and get inspired. fruition. Please let us know if you have any questions Organizing a conference is something that involves or concerns. We are here to make this event as our entire staff in one way or another. Project professionally enriching as it can be for you, in every Manager Andrew Zoeller is the “go-to” person possibly way. for all things conference related, and he’s done a great job, as usual. Government Relations Director Thanks for coming and have a great meeting! Kevin Cain organized our Advocacy Day, which provides a great opportunity tell the story of the importance of academic veterinary medicine to our legislative representatives. Ted Mashima has done an outstanding job in organizing NIH and USDA visits for AAVMC representatives, including deans and associate deans of research, and Tony Wynne Andrew Maccabe has worked with the Admissions and Recruitment Executive Director

6 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference Opening Plenary Session Edison DABC Friday, March 14

8:00–8:10 a.m. 9:40–10:10 Welcome and Introductions Break Kent Hoblet, AAVMC President 10:10–10:30 8:10–8:20 John Finnegan AAVMC Excellence in Research Award Chair of the Board of Directors, Association of Schools and Kent Hoblet Programs in Public Health Dean, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota The 2014 Excellence in Research Award will be presented to Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin for Keynote Addresses advancing the fundamental boundaries of knowledge in the veterinary profession and for facilitating the research 10:30–11:15 careers of veterinarians. See our award winners on page 28. The Honorable Catherine Woteki Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research 8:20–8:30 Education, and Economics, USDA AAVMC Senator John Melcher, DVM Leadership in Public Policy Award 11:15–12:00 Kent Hoblet Juan Lubroth Chief Veterinary Officer, Food and Agriculture The 2014 Senator John Melcher, DVM Leadership in Public Organization of the United Nations Policy Award will be presented to John Herrmann of the University of Illinois for his significant contributions to and leadership in public policy for the advancement of AAVMC Distinguished Veterinary Teacher veterinary medical education. See our award winners on Award Luncheon, Presented by Zoetis page 28. The 2013 Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award will be 8:30–8:45 Presented by Zoetis to Matthew Mellema of the University Connecting at the Conference: Audience Feedback of California, Davis, designating him as the outstanding and Participation veterinary medical educator of the year in the United States Andrew Maccabe, AAVMC Executive Director and Caribbean. See our award winners on page 28.

Guest Speakers 12:00 p.m. Lunch Begins

8:45–9:00 12:45 p.m. Keith Martin Welcome and Introduction Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for Global Kent Hoblet Health Presentation of Award 9:00–9:20 Vanessa Mariani John Clifford Director of Innovation and Strategic Initiatives, Cattle and Chief Veterinary Officer and Deputy Administrator for Equine, U.S. Operation, Zoetis Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Award Lecture Matthew Mellema 9:20–9:40 Bernadette Dunham Director, Center for Veterinary Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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1:30–2:15 p.m. successful One Health initiatives and, eventually, a One Interprofessional Integration and Sustainability of Health Institute. One Health in Education and Beyond Kaja Abbas, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of 2:45–3:00 p.m. Veterinary Medicine Operationalizing One Health Francois Elvinger, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Susan Sanchez, University of Georgia Veterinary Medicine As a concept, One Health needs a common platform for Learn about how the Virginia Tech Public Health and collaborating among all potential partners. The need for Master of Public Health (MPH) Program in the College coordination in One Health formed the basis of a project of Veterinary Medicine, in partnership with the Carilion tasked to a group of University of Georgia Master of School of Medicine, responded to the One Health challenge Business Administration (MBA) whose job was to by integrating human, animal, and environmental health develop value propositions as marketing tools for potential competencies into core and concentration courses, partners. The project examined the operational, financial, experiential learning, and professional preparation educational, advocacy, and legislative responsibilities of activities. The diverse experiences of students from across partner organizations involved in One Health. The project’s multiple disciplines, including full-time MPH students, results will be presented and discussed. medical and veterinary students, PhD students in various disciplines of science and engineering, and mid-career 3:00–3:15 p.m. health professionals, brought many perspectives to this Building a One Health Program: The Public initiative, which can serve as a model for the future. Engagement Side of One Health Community organizations, government, and public, private, John Herrmann, University of Illinois and academic institutions all partnered to implement the Yvette Johnson, University of Illinois program. The Center for One Health Illinois (COHI) at the 2:15–2:30 p.m. University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine Imagine! One Health, One World, One Future—The conducts a One Health public engagement program Solution for a World at Risk that provides education and training opportunities for Eleanor Green, Texas A&M University several segments of the community, from the general Michael Chaddock, Texas A&M University public to public health professionals and local health departments. This presentation highlights opportunities This presentation takes the audience on a journey from a for public engagement with community stakeholders and vision to the reality of the Texas A&M University (TAMU) how a university-based One Health Program can assume One Health program and TAMU One Health Grand a leadership role in educating and training community Challenge. The presentation will describe the challenges members. involved; how the vision for the TAMU One Health program evolved; how the program built a foundational 3:15–3:45 p.m. transdisciplinary coalition of support; how it integrated Break One Health opportunities into a capital campaign and college development; and how the program required 3:45–4:15 p.m. support and focused expertise. One Health Initiative at Iowa State University – Connecting Education, Research, and Outreach 2:30–2:45 p.m. Qijing Zhang, Iowa State University Strategies for Developing a Successful One Health Lisa Nolan, Iowa State University Initiative Claire Andreasen, Iowa State University Mark Stetter, Colorado State University The Iowa State University and the College of Veterinary Discover how Colorado State University developed a Medicine (CVM) integrated the One Health approach One Health Initiative, including the development of a to augment collaboration among colleagues in human steering committee, distribution of a stakeholder survey, and animal health, and produce educational materials, and the identification of the top five “One Health” issues: opportunities, and outcomes. Learn about the CVM’s infectious/zoonotic disease, food safety/security, wildlife/ approach, which included creating a number of ecosystem/environmental, climate change, and human opportunities for researchers to apply their expertise and impact. As part of the planning process, CSU is also also educate the public through community awareness examining how to leverage areas of expertise to develop initiatives. 8 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference Educational Session I Edison DABC Friday, March 14

4:14–4:30 p.m. 5:15–5:30 p.m. One Health Track in the Danish Veterinary Professional Certificate in Global Animal Health Medicine Curriculum at Washington State University: An Opportunity Liza Rosenbaum Nielsen, University of Copenhagen to Combine One Health Training with Traditional Veterinary Education Starting in 2015, the University of Copenhagen in Gretchen Kaufman, Washington State University Denmark plans to implement a curriculum change that will allow students to choose a One Health track. Learn Some students who want to pursue careers that involve about the development of this One Health track, which One Health issues will need more than what a traditional will be designed to develop strong competencies in public framework can reasonably offer. Learn how the addition health-related topics and methodologies, including global of the Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health at preparedness through surveillance and disease control; Washington State University (WSU) allows veterinary molecular typing methods; outbreak investigation; food students to have increased exposure to important global safety; zoonoses and the role of the external environment; one health issues in the classroom, laboratory, and the field antimicrobial use; and resistance in livestock production by creating a global animal health pathway leading to a and companion animals. professional certificate degree for selected students that are seeking careers in global animal health. 4:30–5:15 p.m. Fostering One Health Approaches through Public- Private-Academic Partnerships Will Hueston, University of Minnesota Tracey Lynn, U.S. Department of Agriculture Linda Valeri, University of Minnesota Sylvia Wanzala, Makerere University

Successful One Health approaches demand dynamic partnerships that span the public, private, and academic sectors (PPAP) as well as different disciplines. This session covers a cross-section of public-private-academic partnership activities that address a number of different needs. Key participants will discuss examples that provide personal perspectives and insights. The session will also highlight key learning experiences about the power of public-private-academic partnerships and provide guidelines for development of future successful PPAPs.

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10 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference Educational Session II Edison EFG Friday, March 14

1:30–1:45 p.m. 2:00–2:15 p.m. Degree Programs: Public Health Inclusiveness: Multifaceted One Assessing and Comparing Organization, Health/Public Health Education for Undergraduate Implementation, and Design and Veterinary Students at Auburn University Joann Lindenmayer, Tufts University Stephanie Ostrowski, Auburn University Miranda Hillyard, Friendship Hospital for Animals Discover the ways in which the Auburn University Veterinary public health degree programs, including (AU) College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) engages joint of Veterinary Medicine/Master of Public undergraduate and veterinary students in the issues, Health (DVM/MPH) degree programs, are gaining programs, and services that constitute One Health/public popularity worldwide and growing both in number and health. Initiatives include a public health minor, which participation. To assess the roles played by the veterinary 14 undergraduates have earned so far, and a cooperative medical profession in the development, organization relationship with the MPH program at the University of and implementation of these programs, the presenters Alabama – Birmingham (UAB). conducted interviews with the leaders of 14 veterinary public health degree programs in North America. Results 2:15–2:30 p.m. provide a useful assessment that new and existing programs Flooding the Market or Empowering for Success? alike can use to develop and refine their veterinary public Delivery and Outcomes of a Flexible Public Health health programs. Training Program for Veterinary Students Larissa Minicucci, University of Minnesota Veterinary Public Health: Beyond Zoonoses Michael McGuill, Tufts University This presentation describes the design of the DVM/MPH program at the University of Minnesota, documents Presenters will discuss a broader definition of veterinary program demand, and highlights program features – public health; its relevance to veterinary clinicians identified by students in a survey evaluation – that foster and veterinary public health workers; how it may be feasibility and success. The program is unique in that incorporated into veterinary public health curricula; and students can complete the MPH concurrently with their lessons learned from Tufts’ experiences with the Public DVM degree using a combination of in-person and distance Health and DVM-MPH curricula at the Cummings School courses. of Veterinary Medicine. 2:30–2:45 p.m. 1:45–2:00 p.m. Risk Assessment of Canine Influenza A Viruses to The Benefits and Challenges of Developing a Public Health Practice-based MPH Program within a Veterinary Xiu-Feng Wan, Mississippi State University School: The Case of the University of Guelph’s Solid Beginning and Bright Future In addition to being one of the major causes of respiratory Cate Dewey, University of Guelph diseases in humans, influenza A viruses (IAVs) naturally infect birds, pigs, horses, sea mammals, and have recently The University of Guelph created the MPH program in emerged in dogs. Discover the details of how this risk 2008 to respond to the need for graduate-level trained assessment study demonstrates that canine influenza professionals to work in the public health sector. The viruses pose a potential threat to public health. Ontario Veterinary College of the University of Guelph embarked on developing a program that would focus on 2:45–3:00 p.m. the human-animal interface of public health, include a The Auburn University Research Initiative in practicum placement and use case-based and practice- Cancer (AURIC): A Model of Breaking Down Walls based learning wherever possible. Learn the methodology in Cancer Research and results of an outcome assessment the university Bruce Smith, Auburn University conducted to determine whether graduates are receiving adequate public health training and meeting a societal The interdisciplinary Auburn University Research Initiative need. in Cancer (AURIC) now numbers more than 70 members from across the Auburn University campus (five colleges) as well as members from other institutions. With more than $3 million in aggregate funding from the State of Alabama, this growing program aggressively supports research. This session highlights the creation and growth of AURIC as 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 11 Educational Session II Edison EFG Friday, March 14 well as strategies to leverage funding for such programs. physicians, and scientists as well as a large number of It will also present approaches to exploit strengths in students including undergraduates, graduate students, and often disparate fields and channel these into collaborative veterinary students. This session will illustrate some of the interdisciplinary projects. opportunities, rewards, and challenges that are intrinsic to, or can develop from, a project when participants are willing 3:00–3:15 p.m. to embrace a One Health perspective. Navigating the One Health Obstacle Course in an Academic Setting 4:45–5:15 p.m. Carolyn Henry, University of Missouri Systems Biology and Unconventional Animal Models as Tools in Basic and Applied Research This session highlights three programs offered at the within a One Health Theme University of Missouri that serve as examples of innovative Camilo Bulla, Mississippi State University interprofessional training programs. Presenters will discuss the lessons learned during programmatic development and Veterinary and agricultural researchers are beginning to the challenges that remain in embracing a One Health- embrace systems biology and high throughput data sets centered approach to education and translational research. for identification of biomarkers of disease, generation of Explore the benefits, obstacles, and needs related to hypotheses for new basic research, and identification of developing educational and research programs that truly potential molecular targets for new drugs. The presenters advocate a One Health approach to real-world problems. will describe a few examples in which researchers conducted work of this type, with interesting results. This overview of what is happening at Mississippi State 3:15–3:45 p.m. University will illustrate the potential value of the One Break Health approach for improving animal and human health.

3:45–4:30 p.m. 5:15–5:30 p.m. Building Ecosystem Health Capacity in Veterinary Teaching Scientific Information Literacy Skills to Medicine Veterinary Students: The Missing Link Katey Pelican, University of Minnesota Judy Klimek, Kansas State University Jonna Mazet, University of California, Davis Elizabeth Davis, Kansas State University Lonnie King, Ohio State University Dominic Travis, University of Minnesota Learn about an elective, interdisciplinary course that aims Mark Stetter, Colorado State University to teach students to find and critically evaluate relevant Tracey Lynn, U.S. Department of Agriculture literature for improved clinical and academic decision- Andrew Tamale, Makerere University making, increased confidence with scientific literature, and potential inspiration for the pursuit of academic This panel discussion will cover the development of the careers. Session participants will see examples of course Ecosystem Health Initiative at the University of Minnesota assignments and projects and learn about the course’s College of Veterinary Medicine and the importance of eco- structure and evaluation. In addition, participants will take health as an attractive career path for many veterinary away practical suggestions for designing a similar course. medical students with One Health interests. Panelists will focus on the Minnesota experience in understanding the job market, program development, ecosystem health scholarship (research, education, and service), and formulating partnerships that create tangible career paths.

4:30–4:45 p.m. Accidental One Health: the Unexpected Opportunities, Rewards, and Challenges of Collaboration Andrew Specht, University of Florida

The presenter’s primary research aims to use a large animal (canine) model of GSDIa to develop a gene therapy protocol for translation to clinical trials in human patients. In the process, his research team included veterinarians, 12 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference Educational Session III Edison DABC Saturday, March 15 Orientation to Twinning Programs with local health departments and the medical community. The session includes an update on the DVM/MPH joint 7:00–7:45 a.m. degree program, the public policy practicum, the clinical Orientation to the OIE Veterinary Educational rotation for fourth year veterinary medical students, and Twinning Programs and Opportunities for other initiatives. Participation Rutch Khattiya, PhD Chiang Mai University 8:30–9:15 a.m. Alain DeHove, World Organisation for Animal Health Using One Health Core Competencies to Transform Karin Hamilton, University of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Education Carol Rubin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has Rebekah Kunkel, Centers for Disease Control and proposed a list of Day 1 competencies for new veterinary Prevention graduates and provides a model core curriculum that Debra Olson, University of Minnesota correlates with many One Health competencies. The William Hueston, University of Minnesota OIE has begun to fund veterinary educational twinning Felicia Nutter, Tufts University programs that partner parent institutions from developed countries with institutions in developing countries. Core competencies are knowledge and skills that Presenters will share the experiences of the University of professionals need for success within a specific discipline. Minnesota and Chiang Mai University in as they However, the disease threats of the 21st century require have launched the first veterinary educational twinning a veterinary medical workforce trained to tackle program funded by the U.S. Department of State through interdisciplinary challenges. Using different approaches, the OIE World Animal Health and Welfare Fund. four separate workgroups independently developed the core competencies required by One Health professionals working at the intersection of veterinary medicine, public Educational Session III health, human medicine, and environmental health. Learn how various workgroups identified core competencies, 8:00–8:15 a.m. what they are, and how they can help to equip the coming An International One Medicine Approach to decade’s veterinary medical workforce to tackle One Health Teaching and Learning: Encouraging Critical challenges. Clinical Thinking in the Information Age Duncan Ferguson, University of Illinois 9:15–9:30 a.m. Integration of One Health into Undergraduate and In 25 years, the technical possibilities for sharing Graduate Education instructional expertise have grown exponentially, often Marcy Souza, University of Tennessee changing the role of the instructor to encompass that Merrideth Holub, Texas A&M University of a coach who uses classroom experiences to increase engagement, retention, and critical clinical thinking skills. Presenters will share their experiences delivering This trend toward technological, interactive teaching tools undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on a One is increasing as medical colleges integrate new technologies Health curriculum, including how they incorporated and approaches into their curricula. This presentation will real-life examples of One Health research, education, examine that trend and demonstrate a common approach and outreach endeavors from different fields of study. and platform for sharing efforts regionally, nationally, Alternative methods used to enhance the experiences of internationally, and across medical professions. the students included creating a learning community, completing service learning projects, and taking 8:15–8:30 a.m. educational field trips to local community organizations, Is There Room for One Health in Veterinary as well as more traditional methods such as lectures, Medical Education? discussion, article review, and various topic presentations John Herrmann, University of Illinois by students.

This session will focus on the challenges of integrating 9:30–10:00 a.m. One Health concepts into the general veterinary medical Break curriculum using the Center for One Health Illinois (COHI) at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine as an example. Topics discussed will include successes and failures of collaborations within and across campuses, and

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10:00–10:45 a.m. Uganda, and one with Chiang Mai University in Thailand. A Global Reach for One Health at Tufts University: The presentations will highlight lessons learned in these Technology, Curriculum, Innovation three twinning initiatives, including the importance of Mark Bailey, Tufts University specific objectives, and sharing best practices for the Gretchen Kaufman, Washington State University development of new twinning programs. Melissa Mazan, Tufts University Diafuka Saila-Ngita, Tufts University 11:30–11:45 a.m. Alison Robbins, Tufts University Teaching One Health Principles through Case Studies This panel will demonstrate One Health in action at Tufts Jodi Korich, Texas A&M University University by briefly discussing four distinct but jointly themed and interrelated approaches to One Health: the Case studies effectively provide medical students with Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase enterprise interactive learning experiences. Online cases can be educational software; conservation medicine; the Patients used for self-directed learning, as a means of assessment, Without Borders distance learning program; and work or to stimulate collaborative problem solving. Because under RESPOND in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, of their flexible nature, case studies can also teach One where faculty worked collaboratively to create a working Health principles with relative ease. The Center for definition of competencies expected of all Educational Technologies at Texas A&M University College health professionals. of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences recently developed an online case-authoring tool to facilitate the 10:45–11:00 a.m. development of robust, media-rich case studies. This A Transuniversity Approach for Communicating presentation will demonstrate how to use the tool to One Health Concepts to Students and the Public develop branching case studies for implementation in Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf, North Carolina State classrooms, clinics, and independent study. University 11:45 a.m.–Noon Faculty from North Carolina State University, University University Teaching Hospital Collaboration with of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Duke University Human Medical Facility to Enhance cooperatively developed and teach a One Health course for Learning at Mississippi State University: A Model graduate students in global health, environmental sciences, for One-Health Delivery and comparative biomedical sciences; veterinary students; Ron McLaughlin, Mississippi State University medical students; and preprofessional students. The course, now in its third year, includes topics such as the following: Mississippi State University, College of Veterinary Medicine environmental health/ecology; zoonoses and emerging established a not-for-profit corporation (MSU-CVM-COS, infectious diseases; food and water safety; the human and Inc.) to develop and manage private specialty clinics that companion animal bond; disease surveillance, informatics, would enhance teaching and learning for students. This and emergency preparedness; comparative medicine; risk corporation has developed the Veterinary Specialty Center communication; and One Health in policy and education. (VCS), a referral veterinary specialty practice, located in Learn what elements make the course successful. a human medical facility four miles from the College of Veterinary Medicine. Learn how this interdisciplinary 11:00–11:30 a.m. collaborative relationship with a prominent medical facility Using “Twinning” to Enhance One Health Learning in the region provides significant opportunities to enhance Opportunities the One Health Initiative at the MSU-CVM. William Hueston, University of Minnesota Rutch Khattiya, Chiang Mai University Andrew Tamale, Makerere University Sylvia Wanzala, Makerere University

“Twinning” is an institution-building approach that links organizations or educational programs at different levels of advancement. Twinning programs involve exchange of faculty, staff and even students, plus the sharing of curriculum and processes in order to benefit each other. This session explores two examples of twinning between the University of Minnesota and Makerere University, 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 15 Admissions Educational Session and Workshop Edison EFG Saturday, March 15 Admissions Educational Session Admissions Workshop

8:00–10:00 a.m. 1:45–2:15 p.m. One Health Impacts on Admissions and Admissions & Recruitment: An Overview Recruitment Tony Wynne, AAVMC Director of Admissions & Panel Leader: Pat Conrad, University of California, Davis Recruitment Affairs

This intrahealth professions discussion will explore This presentation will provide a brief overview of activities One Health and what impact it has on admissions and at AAVMC related to admissions and recruitment projects recruitment. How should we approach perspective students and upcoming initiatives. about One Health? What answers should admissions and recruitment have ready? 2:15–2:30 p.m. Break 10:00–10:15 a.m. Break 2:30–4:30 p.m. WebAdMIT and VMCAS 2014 Application Town 10:15 a.m.–Noon Hall Discussion Lessons from the Trenches: VMCAS System Moderator: Jim Weisman, Purdue University Adaptation Stories Breakout & Working Group Facilitator: Michelle Waldron, Oregon State University

The Veterinary Medical College Application Service (VMCAS) made many changes this year. This session will begin with small group discussions including “Challenges and Obstacles,” “Veterinary Admissions Offices Best Practices,” and more.

Noon–1:30 p.m. Lunch

16 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 16 Journal of Veterinary Medical Education Take a look at JVME: www.utpjournals.com/jvme

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Questions, comments, suggestions? Contact the JVME at [email protected] Educational Session IV Edison DABC Saturday, March 15 AAVMC Recognition Lecture lectures, online videoconferencing/discussion, and survey tools to increase participation by expert lecturers, such as Luncheon biologists, veterinarians, and government employees who provide content. Learn why feedback indicates that this is The 2014 Recognition Lecture Award will be presented to a promising effort that will continue to receive program Joe Kornegay of Texas A&M University for his significant resources for further development of distance education and exemplary contributions to veterinary medical educa- curricula and exploration of additional technologies that tion and his advancement of the veterinary profession. See can further educational improvements. our award winners on page 28. 2:00–2:10 p.m. Noon Integrating One Health into Medical and Lunch Begins Veterinary Medical Education: From Trunk to Tail and Head to Toe 12:45 p.m. Mary Elizabeth Herring, Texas A&M University Award Presentation Kent Hoblet, AAVMC President Texas A&M University faculty and students from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences One Man’s View of One Health and College of Medicine are introducing One Health Joe Kornegay to professional students from both colleges through innovative social and educational opportunities that span Educational Session IV the curriculum. Learn about TAMU’s approach, from the first-year introduction of a One Health interdisciplinary 1:30–1:45 p.m. club to a senior-year combined veterinary/medical college- Development and Use of a Zoonotic Disease required course in disaster preparedness and management. Outbreak Scenario as a Professional Development Training Tool 2:10–2:20 p.m. Alicia Humlicek Compelling Convergence: The Added Societal Value of a One Health Certificate Program Disease outbreaks have an impact on the health of our Merrideth Holub, Texas A&M University nation, causing significant morbidity and mortality to humans and animals. These impacts may be mitigated by Learn about TAMU’s One Health Certificate program, using a multidisciplinary response that relies on effective which allows students to become educated on team work communication and coordination between public health and transdisciplinary collaborative work within their fields. and animal health. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s The objective of the certificate program is to provide broad Veterinary Services (VS) is developing a standardized subject matter knowledge to professional and graduate approach to outbreak investigation training for veterinary students in topics of wide ranging significance to human, epidemiologists that relies heavily on case studies as a animal, and environmental health, such as infectious method of delivering competency-based training. Learn diseases, epidemiology, food safety, public health, water, about the development of a training tool based on the role of architecture and engineering, fundamentals of scenario of a foodborne disease outbreak involving animals, leadership, and policy. humans, and wildlife that will be used in a tabletop training course for VS epidemiologists to improve response to 2:20–2:30 p.m. zoonotic disease outbreaks. From Concept to Assessment: Developing a One Health Learning Community 1:45–2:00 p.m. Merrideth Holub, Texas A&M University Getting our Feet Wet: Converting to Online and the Infusion of One Health and Interdisciplinary Views The TAMU Undergraduate One Health Learning into an Aquatic Animal Conservation Course Community is built from a volunteer faculty member, an Iskande Larkin, University of Florida advisory committee, and the assistance of a One Health program coordinator. This team developed a 16-week The Aquatic Animal Health Program at the University of hands-on experiential learning program for 25 students to Florida cautiously entered into online education through attend one-hour weekly educational opportunities through courses that used technology to increase participation numerous colleges across campus. Interdisciplinary by expert lecturers, diversify students in the course, and educational opportunities ranged from human and animal evaluate student satisfaction. The technology used recorded medicine, architecture, animal reproduction, water, 18 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 18 Educational Session IV Edison DABC Saturday, March 15 climate change, food safety, and engineering. Participants outcomes. Human patient-centered, collaborative care is will be guided through a development process of concept, usually the primary focus. This presentation will explore implementation, and evaluation of an undergraduate how interprofessionalism can impact animal owners, or learning community in One Health that can be established clients, who are challenged with health issues, and focus on on their campus. veterinary education techniques that help to instill a client- service focus in clinical practice. 2:30–2:45 p.m. Impact of an Interprofessional Course on the 3:15–3:45 p.m. Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs of Health Break Sciences Students on One Health Malika Kachani, Western University of Health Sciences 3:45–4:00 p.m. Interprofessional Initiatives between the Human Intersectoral collaboration is crucial for disease prevention Health Professions and Veterinary Medical and control. The One Health approach should be applied by Students: A Scoping Review health professionals when addressing health issues in order Molly Courtenay, University of Surrey to save resources and share benefits. Western University provides an excellent forum for evaluating the impact of an Results of intervention initiatives demonstrate a need to interprofessional education course on student knowledge, further explore, define, differentiate, and validate some attitudes, and beliefs (KAB) around One Health. With a of the concepts that surround interprofessional education mandatory first-year course, it brings together more than (IPE) between the human health professions and veterinary 1,200 students from multiple health professions for five medical students. This session presents the findings of a intersectoral and interdisciplinary case-based scenarios, scoping review designed to identify the extent and nature with accompanying discussion of health issues. Learn about of the literature on IPE initiatives between the human the course and an assessment that evaluated differences in health professions and veterinary medical students, such student KAB before and after having taken the course. as panned healthcare professional and postgraduate programs, single and multiple sessions, healthcare 2:45–3:00 p.m. professional program courses, and entire MPH and One An Exclusively Veterinary Perspective on Health programs. Interprofessional Working, Learning, and Education 4:00–4:15 p.m. Tierney Kinnison, A Nurse among Veterinarians? The One Health Residency Program in Uganda Interprofessional working, learning, and education within Jacinta Waila, Makerere University a One Health context implies veterinarians collaborating with members of human healthcare due to factors such The One Health Residency Program at Makerere as zoonotic diseases and comparative medicine. In University-Uganda has three pilot residents; two the modern era, veterinarians are more likely to work veterinarians and one nurse. The program seeks to alongside professionals such as veterinary technicians/ instill residents with a core understanding of One Health nurses, practice managers, physical therapists, and concepts. This session presents the impressions of the animal behaviorists. This session explores the evolution of nurse on that team and the transformational broadening interprofessional interactions between veterinarians and of her perspectives as she participated in a Veterinary other veterinary-related professions and how they affect Medicine-Nursing-Public Health field practicum organized each other. by Makerere University. Her definition of health now extends beyond the borders of the hospital or community 3:00–3:15 p.m. outreach – it includes farms and processing units and Collaborative, Interprofessional Care: What zoonotic disease control and recognizes veterinarians as key Can We Learn from Each Other to Improve the stakeholders in human health. Health of Animal Patients, Human Patients, and Population Health? 4:15–4:45 p.m. John Tegzes, Western University of Health Sciences Experiencing One Health in Action: Creating a Laura Molgaard, University of Minnesota Transformative Learning Environment Emma Read, University of Calgary Interprofessional education (IPE) occurs when learners from two or more professions learn from, with, and This session details the One Health aspects of curricular about each other in order to improve patient care and and experiential programs involving ecosystem and public 19 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 19 Educational Session IV Edison DABC Saturday, March 15 health at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary 5:15–5:30 p.m. Medicine, such as two weeks in the field experiencing The Four S’s of a Shelter Medicine Rotation: animal industries, followed by a course on animals, health, Students, Shelters, Suburban, and Sonic and society (year one); a DVM capstone experiential Brenda Stevens, North Carolina State University program that engages the full class in an original research project (year three); experiential electives (year four); and Shelter medicine is a rapidly developing field of great the Northern Aboriginal Community Health rotation. importance to a One Health mission in veterinary medicine. Shelters provide abundant training opportunities for 4:45–5:15 p.m. veterinary medical students. Students trained in shelter Enhancing One Health Learning through medicine have opportunities to practice zoonotic and Experiential Learning species-specific infectious disease control, behavioral Katey Pelican, University of Minnesota evaluation and management, primary care, as well as Larissa Minicucci, University of Minnesota animal welfare, ethics, and public policy considerations Shamilah Namusisi, Makerere University affecting animal shelters. This session will describe the results of a series of two-week, elective clinical rotations The colleges across the University of Minnesota have a with a focus on field and service-learning in animal rich history of employing field-based experiential learning shelters. Information will include costs associated with the for One Health. Through these field-based educational rotation, a blueprint for how the rotation was conducted, activities, students navigate real world scenarios through and other operational details. on-site investigation, interviews, and interaction with diverse One Health stakeholders including local and federal government agencies, the private sector, and faculty from multiple disciplines and, where possible, cultures. This session highlights several examples of One Health experience-based training programs and their role in advancing One Health competencies both in the U.S. and overseas.

Upcoming Meetings

2014 Annual Business Meeting July 27–28, 2014 Denver, Colorado Board of Directors Meeting July 27, 2014 Assembly Meeting July 28, 2014

2015 Deans Conference* January 16–17, 2015 Naples, Florida

2015 Advocacy Summit* March 12, 2015 Washington, D.C.

2015 Annual Conference March 13–15, 2015 Washington, D.C.

2015 Veterinary Medical Career Fair March 15, 2015 Washington, D.C.

*Open by invitation only

20 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 20 Educational Session V Edison EFG Sunday, March 16

8:00–8:45 a.m. is an international partnership of various public and Pan-American Session private entities including the International Veterinary Collaboration for (IVCC), the Chinese Veterinary Introduction Medical Association (CVMA), nine Chinese universities, six Francisco Suárez-Güemes, National Autonomous U.S. universities, and the China Scholarship Council (CSC). University of Mexico (UNAM) These American-trained Chinese veterinarians will enhance veterinary education, the quality of clinical veterinary care Organization of the Veterinary Profession on the American in China, and promote One Health initiatives in China. Continent Luis Zarco-Quintero, Pan-American Association 9:45–10:05 a.m. Veterinary Sciences (PANVET) Break

Teaching Experiences Related with Animal Welfare and the 10:05–10:20 a.m. One Health Concept One Health and Institutions Juan Taylor-Preciado, University of Guadalajara Sylvia Wanzala, Makerere University Pan-American Association of Veterinary Medicine David Muwanguzi, Makerere University Colleges Elsa Murhandarwati, Universitas Gadjah Mada

The Inclusion of the One Heath and Animal Welfare One Health is an approach that higher education Concepts in Food Animals institutions are slowly beginning to embrace. The Rafael Gianella Mondadori, National Commission for traditional compartmentalization of disciplines has created the Education of Veterinary Medicine, Brazil Federal silos and duplication of effort as well as multiplication of University of Pelotas resources. With the exploding number of emerging and re-emerging diseases occurring at the human-animal 8:45–9:30 a.m. interface, working across disciplines and containing International One Health Challenges — The Hidden diseases at their source would be more cost effective than Complexities letting them enter the human population. This session will Valerie Ragan, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of look at how the One Health approach has been successfully Veterinary Medicine initiated in higher education institutions in both Asia and East Africa and the reasons why such programs strongly This discussion will articulate the value of international need funding. One Health experiential education for veterinary students, and identify ways to ensure students have an understanding 10:20–11:05 a.m. of the complexities of relationships in international one One Health In Action: From the Field to the health efforts, which are the basis for knowing insertion Classroom points that can lead to successful actions. Challenges that Patricia Conrad, University of California, Davis veterinary students have faced internationally in trying to Kirsten Gilardi, University of California, Davis address One Health will be discussed, as well as recognizing Carolina Vicario, University of California, Davis challenges to One Health implementation internationally, Woutrina Miller, University of California, Davis ways to increase student understanding of the potential impacts of and solutions to those challenges, and how to Learn about three exciting examples of One Health in enhance student involvement and success in international action led by University of California, Davis faculty and One Health projects. students. The Gorilla Doctors Program is dedicated to providing hands-on medical care to sick and injured 9:30–9:45 a.m. mountain gorillas living in the national parks of Rwanda, The preVet-DVM Program for Chinese Students in Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. PREDICT the U.S. — One World One Health in Action is a USAID-funded consortium program focused on wildlife Jishu Shi, Kansas State University surveillance to identify hotspots for emerging diseases of pandemic potential and help countries develop disease To advance veterinary education and practice standards in control and prevention strategies. The Nicaragua project is China, the U.S.-China Center for Animal Health (USCCAH) a student-lead, community engagement project designed to at Kansas State University (KSU) has established and foster a One Health approach to international outreach in coordinated a preVet-DVM program that will train 50 Sabana Grande, Nicaragua. Chinese students in the next 10 years through AVMA- accredited DVM programs in the U.S. This program 21 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 21 Educational Session VI Edison DABC Sunday, March 16

8:00–8:15 a.m. 8:45–9:30 a.m. Veterinary Medical Emergency Preparedness & RESPOND: Development of a Global Model for Response: Responding to the Entire Family University-Based Engagement in One Health Wesley Bissett, Texas A&M University Felicia Nutter, Tufts University Debra Zoran, Texas A&M University Katey Pelican, University of Minnesota Dominic Travis, University of Minnesota The Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Saul Tzipori, Tufts University Biomedical Sciences is providing the nation’s only required clinical rotation in emergency preparedness and response. Since 2009, with funding from USAID’s Emerging Presenters will describe how this rotation, now in its second Pandemic Threats (EPT) Program, the RESPOND Project year, is focused on providing students with the multifaceted has been supporting the development of country-level One skills and knowledge base required to be personally and Health capacity in Africa and Southeast Asia. Presentations professionally prepared to weather a disaster situation and will cover foundational aspects of RESPOND’s work, also to assist communities in preparing to mitigate and including legal framework and organizational development respond to animal issues that emerge during emergencies for the university networks; participatory development and disasters. of One Health core competencies and curriculum maps; supporting faculty in learning about and teaching One 8:15–8:30 a.m. Health; and changing how students learn and engaging Training Veterinarians in Disaster Management them in One Health activities. Using a One Health Approach Carla Huston, Mississippi State University 9:30–9:45 a.m. Disparity in Access to Health Care: Causes and Proposed Solutions for Low-Income Most veterinarians are not accustomed to working in the Countries world of disaster management. However, veterinarians Grace Thaxton, Auburn University often find themselves thrown into the front lines of a natural or manmade disaster response. Successful disaster People in low-income or developing nations generally preparedness, response, and recovery activities require have less access to health services than those in wealthier a true One Health approach. Animal care, public health, countries. This disparity has been a major global issue for preventive medicine, food safety, and environmental health decades, yet little progress has been made to remedy it. are some areas in which veterinarians are well poised to Learn about a review paper by Bigdeli et al. that examines assist following a large-scale disaster. This session focuses four ways to positively affect access to health care: market on challenges to providing disaster management training forces, innovations in medical supply delivery, transparency for veterinary students and veterinarians along with and sharing of information, and donor agendas for integrated approaches to providing such training using a funding. This session will also look at quality factors and One Health approach. tailoring health systems to the local community’s needs and expectations. 8:30–8:45 a.m. Analyzing the Integration of One Health into 9:45–10:05 a.m. Professional Training Programs: A Review of Break Existing Methods and Future Directions Anna Fagre, Colorado State University 10:05–10:20 a.m. The Hidden Curriculum of Hospital-Based What makes an effective One Health program or how is Teaching it even defined? Learn about an analysis of One Health Carrie Roder, Royal Veterinary College programs that will critically assess the impact of these programs by quantifying examples of past efforts, current Taking the Royal Veterinary College as a case study, undertakings, and potential areas of success for institutions this presentation outlines a mixed methods approach to wishing to implement or improve upon their own One understanding the hidden curriculum of professionalism Health curricula in the future using examples adopted from experienced by students during their final-year clinical the literature well as the recent experiences of students in rotations. A longitudinal survey uncovered the students’ Colorado State University’s One Health Club. view of professionalism pre- and postrotations, and, hence, any attitude change, while interviews, observations, and further surveys were undertaken to understand the key messages of the hidden curriculum, the means by which they were delivered, and factors that affected the students’ 22 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 22 Educational Session VI Edison DABC Sunday, March 16 susceptibility to these messages. 10:35–10:50 a.m. Zoonotic Tuberculosis at the Human-Animal- Developing a New Generation of Veterinary Livestock Interface Educators and Professionals for the 21st Century Meghan Gibas, Colorado State University Ayona Silva-Fletcher, Royal Veterinary College Recently, the World Health Organization classified Teaching One Health requires a different kind of pedagogy zoonotic tuberculosis (TB) as a “neglected zoonosis.” and approach to problem solving. How feasible is it Learn about field projects currently underway in Kenya, to transform the veterinary educators with a science- Zambia, and Uganda to differentiate the specific species based background to develop their teaching skills in of Mycobacteria found among human TB patients in interdisciplinary problem-solving methodologies? This Africa. The results of this study will provide an estimate session explores the development of content and structure of the prevalence of M. bovis infection in humans and in a postgraduate veterinary education program to address information regarding risk factors associated with this the educational demand exerted by the One Health concept. zoonotic disease. Interdisciplinary efforts will contribute to the development of the necessary foundation to create 10:20–10:35 a.m. integrated preventative strategies and public health Application of CDC’s Ten Essential Public Health interventions to decrease the burden of zoonotic TB among Services among Veterinarians in HPAI Prevention human populations in rural areas of Africa. and Control, Indonesia Joann Lindenmayer, Tufts University 10:50–11:05 a.m. Iwan Willyanto, InL Veterinary Service One Border, One Health: A Novel Binational Approach to an Early Warning Infectious Disease Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) emerged in Surveillance System Indonesia in 2003 and is now endemic among poultry Helen Engelke, Western University of Health Sciences populations. Learn how a coalition of stakeholders, including staff members of the Ministries of Health and Transboundary movements of humans, domestic animals, Agriculture in Indonesia, are responsible for developing, wildlife, vectors, and vehicles are risk factors for the implementing, and evaluating national plans to prevent and emergence of infectious diseases. As such, international control HPAI. Also, learn how the emergence of HPAI has collaboration is imperative in prevention and control. This provided numerous opportunities to strengthen the joint session will outline how more than 100 health professionals participation of human and animal health professionals in from the border states of California and Baja, California, carrying out the CDC’s Ten Essential Public Health Services have come together to develop a model that integrates Framework. human, animal, and environmental health activities with a novel binational (Mexico-United States) approach. The Tufts University One Health Twinning Program ultimate aim is not only to protect border communities but in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Lessons also to create an early warning system that would allow for Learned actionable and timely interventions to limit emergence, Diafuka Saila-Ngita, Tufts University mitigate spread, and enhance prevention and control.

Tufts University implemented a twinning program involving faculty from various disciplines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) under the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats program in 2012. This session outlines the details of this multifaceted twinning program, which was conducted in a resource-constrained environment. The authors conclude that when introducing One Health collaborative programs, it is important to capitalize on past multidisciplinary collaborative experiences, and that One Health collaboration has the potential of generating substantial savings through resource sharing and joint acquisition.

23 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 23 Closing Workshop Edison DABC Sunday, March 16

11:05 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Global grand challenges, such as global food security, Capturing the Opportunity: Sustaining One emerging infectious diseases, and ecosystem health and Health Approaches as a Competitive Advantage of sustainability, create innumerable opportunities for Veterinary Medical Education veterinarians to contribute. New career opportunities exist William Hueston, University of Minnesota for those veterinarians with meta-leadership skills who are Lonnie King, Ohio State University able to contribute in multicultural, dynamic situations in which there are no simple technical solutions. One Health approaches have captured renewed attention as dynamic tools for managing the dilemmas increasingly This interactive workshop will summarize the 2014 AAVMC found at human, animal, and environmental interfaces. Annual Conference program to explore the need, challenge, While a flurry of national and international meetings, and opportunity provided by curricular integration of One powerful case studies, new educational programs, and Health approaches. The barriers to One Health approaches faculty have ensued, the seminal question is whether becoming the new norm for veterinary education will be transdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, systems-based One Health identified so that participants can identify strategies for approaches can be successfully and sufficiently integrated overcoming them. Registrants will be asked to join a call to in veterinary medical education programs to assure their action for veterinary medical education and commit to next sustainability. steps in order to assure that concrete actions follow the workshop. Veterinary education introduces the concept of human- animal-environmental interactions and provides a foundation on which One Health principles can be built. At the same time, the veterinary curriculum is packed with didactic courses that often exclude interactions with other disciplines. The typical veterinary student graduates without any experience working in transdisciplinary, cross- sectoral teams that utilize systems thinking in addressing problems.

24 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 24 Posters

The Veterinarian’s Piece of the Food Safety Puzzle: Integrating One Health into Medical and A One Health Approach Veterinary Medical Education: From Trunk to Tail A. Arens and Head to Toe University of California, Davis M. Herring, W. Bissett, R. Holdgraf Texas A&M University Description of Global One Health Core in the DVM Curriculum Development and Use of a Zoonotic Disease W. Epperson Outbreak Scenario as a Professional Development Mississippi State University Training Tool A. Humlicek, Zoonotic Disease Outbreak Scenario; T. Utilizing International University Networks to Lynn, One Health Coordination Office Deliver One Health Competency Training through Case Based Learning A One Health Perspective on Public Health Issues M. Farnham, K. Pelican in Ghana University of Minnesota Y. Johnson University of Illinois Developing One Health Leadership Skills in Democratic Republic of the Congo Designing an Active Learning Classroom for M. Farnham, University of Minnesota; K. Prince, Veterinary Medicine: Asking the Right Questions University of Kinisha; H. Amguni, Tufts University; E. Malone, L. Molgaard W. Hueston, University of Minnesota University of Minnesota

Intravenous Injection and Catheter Placement Curriculum Revision 2013: An Aggressive Teaching Models Model for Curriculum Revision and Outcomes T. Frank-Cannon, A. Blue-McLendon Assessment Texas A&M University L. Molgaard, R. Kustritz, E. Malone University of Minnesota A Quantitative Method for Competency Tracking in a Novel Veterinary Public Health and Preventative Australian Abattoir Learning Resource: Putting Medicine Residency Program PHUN into Food Safety Education T. Goldsmith, L. Minicucci, S. Summerbell S. Mor, The ; R. Cobbold, University University of Minnesota of Queensland; L. Foyle, James Cook University; S. Piripi, University of Sydney; H. White, The University of Sydney; Institutional, National, Regional, and Global J. Toribio, The University of Sydney Development and Use of One Health Core Competencies and Domains in Education Developing a System-Based Approach to K. Hamilton, University of Minnesota; L. Keller, Strengthening Cross-Sectoral One Health University of Minnesota; S. Fenwick, University of Collaboration: A Lean Minnesota Model Minnesota; R. Hyatt, Tufts University; D. Qualters, Tufts K. Pelican, University of Minnesota; J. Chung, University University; M. Lee, Tufts University; P. Rujisatian, DAI; of Minnesota; H. Kassenbourg, Minnesota Department of M. Morehouse, Training Resources Group, Inc. Agriculture; T. Lynn, One Health Office

Spirit of Thailand 2013: A Cultural Immersion Use of the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Program Focusing on Veterinary Public Health Measure (DREEM) in a United States Veterinary K. Hamilton Professional Program to Influence Curriculum University of Minnesota Reform J. Pelzer, J. Hodgson Public Health Campaign to Promote Hand Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Sanitation before Meals in a College of Veterinary Medicine Medicine E. Heinrick, K. KuKanich, E. Davis, B. White Canine Degenerative Myelopathy: An Orthologue Kansas State University of Human Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis I. Shafie, and University of Putra ; M. McLaughlin, University of Glasgow; J. Pendris, University of Glasgow; T. Anderson, University of Glasgow

25 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 25 Posters

Bio-Security Education through Experiential Experiential Education: Creation of a Practice- Learning with Authentic Applications Based Equine Clerkship Rotation at the University M. Smith, C. Meehan, of Florida University of California, Davis A. House University of Florida A Partnership in One Health: Khon Kean University, Thailand and Nabong Agricultural Re-Evaluating the Cat’s Image and Encouraging College, Lao PDR Healthy Ownership J. Steele, Tufts University; S. Aiumlamai, Khon A. Romeo Kean University; S. Saengmaneedet, Khon Kean Texas A&M University University; S. Porntrakulpipat, Khon Kean University; O. Phonekhampheng, National University of Laos; S. Tufts at Tech: A Working Model for Community Kaylath, University of Laos; S. Fenwick, Tufts University; One Health S. Tzipori, Tufts University J. Rush, G. Wolfus, E. McCobb, E. Rozanski, K. Holmes Tufts University Disparity in Access to Health Care: Causes and Proposed Solutions for Low-Income Countries Risk Assessment of an Avian Origin Swine H6N6 G. Thaxton Influenza A Virus to Public Health Auburn University H. Sun, Mississippi State University; J. Ye, Mississippi State University; S. Blackmon, Mississippi State One Healthy Village at a Time: Improving Animal University; D. Smith, Emory University; R. Webby, St. Health in Nicaragua in Order to Foster Human Jude Children’s Research Hospital; X. F. Wan, Mississippi Livelihood State University M. Chaddock, A. Arens, C. Scott, B. Osburn Texas A&M University One Health, Eco Health, Integrative Health, and Global Health in the Body of Knowledge Rating Scales in Clinical Rotations: Why Words A. Sutomo Are Important Occupational Health Department of Gadjah Mada S. Dawson University School of Medicine University of Prince Edward Island One Health, One Influenza: Live Bird Markets Pigs, Poverty and Epilepsy: An International One Continue to Present Threats to Public Health Health Approach X. Wan, Mississippi State University; H. Cao, Jiangxi C. Dewey Agricultural University H. Liu, Institut Pasture of University of Guelph Shanghai Chinese Academy of Sciences; G. Hu, Jiangxi Agricultural University Implementation of a Competency-Based DVM Program at the Université de Montréal Student Posters M. Doucet, M. Carrier, M. Bélisle Université de Montréal Preparing for Disaster: What Every Health Professional Needs to Know One Health and the LGBT Community, Promoting E. Gueta, J. Christman Mental Health and Well Being for Medical Michigan State University Professionals: Impact of LGBT Clubs on Veterinary Student Health and Experience Merging Ecology and Epidemiology to Reduce the A. Fischer, Cornell University; N. Wright, University of Burden of Human and Canine Chagas Disease: A Pennsylvania; A. Otamendi, Louisiana State University One Health Approach R. Curtis, G. Hamer, S. Hamer Competency-Based Learning Objectives for Clinical Texas A&M University Rotations offered at Affiliated Institutions C. Fuentealba One Health and the LGBT Community, Promoting Ross University Mental Health and Well Being for Medical Professionals: Impact of LGBT Clubs on Veterinary Inspiring Veterinary Students of Tomorrow Student Health and Experience V. Hall A. Fischer, Cornell University; N. Wright, University of Mississippi State University Pennsylvania; A. Otamendi, Louisiana State University

26 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 26 Posters

A One Health Review of Newcastle Disease Fear or Fight? Education of Zoonosis in the Swine Surveillance in African Union Member Countries Flu of 2009 in China E. Gardner, Tufts University; R. Alders, University of S. Qin, H. Chen, Qian Lu Sydney and Tufts University University of Maryland

Experimental Veterinary Student Public Health Organochlorines in the Marine Environment: Education in the South Pacific and Vietnam Temporal Trends in California Sea Lions and V. Hall Association with Impaired Health Mississippi State College N. Randhawa, University of California, Davis; F. Gulland, The Marine Mammal Center; G. Ylitalo, Northwest Compelling Convergence: The Added Societal Fisheries Science Center; R deLong, National Oceanic Value of a One Health Certificate Program and Atmospheric Administration; J. Mazet, University of M. Holub California, Davis Texas A&M University Foaming at the Mouth for Rabies Postexposure From Concept to Assessment: Developing a One Prophylaxis Health Learning Community S. Rekant, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of M. Holub Veterinary Medicine; J. Murphy; Virginia Department of Texas A&M University Health; B. Bullock, Fairfax County Department of Health; F. Elvinger, Virginia Tech One Health in Action: Connecting Poultry Health and Community Welfare Reevaluating the Cat’s Image and Encouraging R. Landman, M. Morales Healthy Pet Ownership University of California, Davis A. Romeo, D. Brown Texas A&M University One Health in Action: UCD-Sri-Lanka Faculty Collaboration to Investigate Milk Quality One Health in Practice: The “One Health Clinic” Juxtaposed with Consumer Beliefs as a Healthcare Solution for Underserved R. Morey, University of California, Davis; A. Salgadu, Communities University of Peradeniya; G. Wagolla, University of J. Sweeney Peradeniya University of California, Davis

Assessment of Brucellosis Risk Factors in Trinidad North Carolina One Health Bulletin: Informing and M. Neafsey, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Engaging Diverse Stakeholders Veterinary Medicine; V. Ragan, Virginia-Maryland C. Trull, North Carolina University; D. Lindquist, North Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and University Carolina University; J. Casani, North Carolina Division of Maryland; S. Titus, Animal Production and Health; F. of Public Health; S. Kennedy-Stoskopf, North Carolina Elvinger, Virginia Tech University

Development of an International Grass Roots Estimating Prevalence of Fasciola Hepatica in Partnership through Service Learning in Mérida, Haiti using Federal Sedimentation in Cattle and Nicaragua Goats V. O’Nion, A. Reid, K. Kransa, K. Schoenhals, S. Lapinski, C. Vanderhoof, Virginia-Maryland Regional College B. Beechler, H. Montilla, S. Tornquist, of Veterinary Medicine; A. Zajac, Virginia-Maryland Oregon State University Regional College of Veterinary Medicine; K. Crowdis, Christian Veterinary Mission; F. Elvinger, Virginia Tech Assessment of Prevalence and Knowledge on Common Tick Borne Diseases with Respect to From the Group Up: Building Novel Opportunities Public Health for Interdisciplinary Exchange and Education N. Pierrot, Umutara Polytechnic University Locally and Globally F. Whitton One Health Nicaragua: Past Lessons and Future University of California, Davis Directions R. Putnam University of California, Davis

27 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 27 AAVMC Award Winners Presented by Kent Hoblet, AAVMC President

Senator John Melcher, DVM Excellence in Research Award Leadership in Public Policy Award

Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM, MS, PhD John Herrmann, DVM, MPH, DACT University of Wisconsin University of Illinois

Dr. Kawaoka’s scholarly achievements as a veterinary Dr. Herrmann’s work on behalf of public health has made scientist are extraordinary. His groundbreaking work the world a safer and healthier place. He understands the on influenza and his contributions to understanding the value of advocacy and has made it his mission to advocate relationship of animal and human influenzas is a prime for public health at the grassroots level and also in the example of research that crosses boundaries by advancing realm of public policy. It is an honor to recognize his efforts both animal and human health. with the AAVMC’s Leadership in Public Policy Award.

Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award, Presented by Zoetis Recognition Lecture

Matthew Mellema, DVM, PhD, DACVECC Joe Kornegay, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVIM University of California, Davis Texas A&M University

Dr. Mellema exemplifies the qualities we seek in an Dr. Kornegay is a giant in translational research who has honoree. Students and colleagues alike applaud his conducted pioneering and enduring work in the study of dedication and passion for education. Teaching is his Duchenne muscular dystrophy and diseases such as cancer, priority and his emphasis on critical thinking, problem- heart disease, and epilepsy. His visionary outreach and solving, and self-directed learning maximizes students’ discipline-spanning scope make him an eminently qualified chances for lifelong success. honoree to present the annual Recognition Lecture at our One Health-focused event.

28 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference Speaker Biographies

Claire Andreasen, DVM, PhD, DACVP, canine platelet proteome and understanding Health at New York University. He has worked is a professor and associate dean for Academic the role of platelets in cancer progression, internationally in Bolivia and , and and Student Affairs in the Iowa State University metastasis, and control. He received his also has public sector experience at the U.S. (ISU) College of Veterinary Medicine. She veterinary degree from the Universidade Department of Agriculture and the New York was a department chair for 10 years before Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho, City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. her appointment as associate dean. Dr. in Sao Paulo, Brazil where he did a two year Dr. Chung received his veterinary degree from Andreasen was a faculty member at Oregon residency in clinical and also earned The Ohio State University and his bachelor’s in State University College of Veterinary Medicine an MS degree. Dr. Bulla began his PhD research psychology from Tufts University. before coming to ISU in 1996. She served in the at the same institution, and this research project Office of the Provost for faculty advancement was continued and completed in the department John Clifford, DVM, is deputy administrator and diversity in 2005/2006 as an intern and of pathobiology and diagnostic investigation and chief veterinary officer for Veterinary assistant. Dr. Andreasen received her DVM at Michigan State University, in East Lansing, Services (VS) at the U.S. Department of degree from Texas A&M University in 1982, Michigan. He then completed a residency in Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant and then completed a pathology residency and veterinary clinical pathology at Michigan State Health Inspection Service (APHIS). In his PhD at the University of Georgia in 1990. Her University under the mentorship of Dr. Jennifer role at USDA-APHIS, Dr. Clifford provides research areas are comparative cell function in Thomas. leadership for safeguarding U.S. animal health. infectious disease and emerging and zoonotic Before becoming deputy administrator in May disease education, serving in two multi- Michael Chaddock, DVM, EML, joined the 2004, Dr. Clifford was the associate deputy institutional centers. She has written numerous Texas A&M University College of Veterinary administrator of the National Animal Health publications, abstracts, and book chapters. Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, in and Policy program, where he led VS’ efforts She received the Pfizer Award for Research September 2012, as assistant dean for One to protect, sustain, and improve productivity, Excellence in 1994 and the Student Chapter of Health and strategic initiatives. In 2006, he marketability, and health of the nation’s the American Veterinary Medical Association joined the Association of American Veterinary animals, animal products, and biologics. Clinical Sciences Teaching Award in 2001. Medical Colleges where he served as director of Dr. Clifford served as VS’ assistant deputy communications, associate executive director, administrator from 1997 to 2002 and also has Mark Bailey, MS, joined Tufts University and deputy director. Dr. Chaddock was a extensive field experience. Since joining APHIS in 2008 as manager of support services in the Kellogg Fellow in food and agricultural policy, in 1985, Dr. Clifford has also served as area Technology for Learning in the Health Sciences a Congressional Science and Engineering veterinarian in charge of several areas; the Group. He manages day-to-day support for the Fellow of the American Association for the National Health Monitoring System coordinator Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase as Advancement of Science sponsored by the for one state; and the brucellosis epidemiologist well as working with health sciences faculty to American Veterinary Medical Association and veterinary medical officer in another state. develop educational multimedia resources. In (AVMA), and a fellow and faculty member Before beginning his work with APHIS, he was a recent years, Dr. Bailey has worked in various in biodefense strategies for the Bloomberg private veterinarian in a mixed practice. Clifford roles in the design and delivery of software School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and for medical education. Before joining Tufts, University. He was appointed director of the in animal degrees he worked as a project manager for Custom AVMA Governmental Relations Division in from the University of Missouri. Learning Designs, Inc. developing e-learning 2003. Dr. Chaddock received his doctor of software and educational materials for medical veterinary medicine degree from Michigan Patricia Conrad, DVM, PhD, is a and pharmaceutical companies. Bailey holds State University and an executive master’s veterinarian and professor of a Master of Science degree in bioinformatics degree in leadership from the McDonough whose research is focused on the transmission from Brandeis University, a Bachelor of Science School of Business at Georgetown University. of protozoal parasites between wildlife, humans, degree in human nutrition from the University He worked in private mixed practice in and domestic animals. Dr. Conrad received her of Massachusetts at Amherst as well as a Michigan for 13 years and worked in industry Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Colorado certificate in web development and design from for two years before being appointed Michigan State University and PhD from the University the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. state veterinarian and director of the animal of Edinburgh. After doing postdoctoral research industry division of the Michigan Department on molecular epidemiology of East Coast fever Wesley Bissett, DVM, PhD, is a 1997 of Agriculture in 1986. Dr. Chaddock is the at the International Laboratory for Research graduate of the Texas A&M College of recipient the Distinguished Alumnus Award on Animal Diseases in Nairobi, Kenya, she Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. from the college of veterinary medicine at joined the faculty of the school of veterinary After graduation Dr. Bissett founded a large Michigan State University, the AVMA Political medicine at the University of California, Davis. animal practice on the Texas Gulf Coast and Action Committee Policy Board’s Russell H. Dr. Conrad has published more than 200 returned to Texas A&M and completed his PhD Anthony Award, the MVMA Public Service scientific papers and chapters in the fields of in Veterinary in 2007. He is a Award, and is a two-time recipient of the parasitology, emerging infectious diseases, and founding member and serves as the Director of Michigan Veterinary Medical Association’s One Health. She is the recipient of the Carl J. the Texas A&M Veterinary Emergency Team, Award of Appreciation. He is currently a Norden Distinguished Teaching Award, Pfizer a state level responding entity and one of the member of the board of directors and treasurer Award for Research Excellence, the Oscar W. largest and most sophisticated veterinary of the Lesbian and Gay Veterinary Medical Schalm and Norman E. Levine Lectureships, emergency teams in the country. In addition, Association. and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship. Dr. Bissett is part of the development and Dr. Conrad was elected to the Institute of delivery team for the nation’s only required Jeein Chung, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, Medicine of the National Academies in 2011 and clinical rotation in emergency preparedness and is currently a U.S. Agency for International awarded a fellowship in the American Academy response. Development RESPOND Capacity Building of Microbiology in 2012. She is the co-director Technical Consultant at the University of of the One Health center of expertise in the Camilo Bulla, DVM, PhD, is an assistant Minnesota (UMN) and has been with UMN University of California Global Health Institute professor in the department of pathobiology and since 2011. He will relocate to Southeast Asia and was recently appointed associate dean for population medicine at the college of veterinary this fall to assist the South East Asia One global programs for the school of veterinary medicine at Mississippi State University and Health University Network in its capacity medicine. has held that position since 2008. Dr. Bulla has building efforts. Before joining UMN, Dr. published 16 primary research papers in peer- Chung practiced companion animal medicine Molly Courtenay, PhD, MSc, BSc, Cert reviewed journals, and his current research in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area Ed, RN, is a professor at the University interests focus on the characterization of the while pursuing his Master of Global Public of Surrey, , and a visiting

2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 29 Speaker Biographies professor at the University of California (UC), Veterinary College at the University of Guelph University of Minnesota. He began his public Davis. Dr. Courtenay, a nurse by background, in Ontario, Canada and a Doctor of Philosophy health career in 1980, following a first career has been actively involved in research for in cardiovascular from Boston path as a journalist during the 1970s. As a the last 10 years. Her work in the UK has University in Boston, Massachusetts. doctoral student, media professional and later focused on new models of service delivery in as public health faculty, he was a member of primary care, interprofessional education, Helen Engelke, BVSc MPVM, DACVPM, the pioneering research team that developed and interprofessional collaborative practice. joined the faculty of Western University the Minnesota Heart Health Program at the Through her visiting post at UC, Davis, Dr. of Health Sciences in 2006 as an assistant University of Minnesota School of Public Courtenay now works on examining the professor in veterinary public health. She is Health. Based on this initiative, Dr. Finnegan interprofessional initiatives between the human currently a course leader for the veterinary launched a career specializing in the role of health professions and veterinary medical issues course for second-year students as communication and mass media in leveraging students. She has been the principal investigator well as course leader for the veterinary public change in health knowledge, behavior and on several UK national grants. Published widely health course, which is delivered to third- public policy in the context of community in peer reviewed journals, Dr. Courtenay is the year students. Dr. Engelke graduated with a campaigns to improve the public’s health. author and editor of a number of core texts for Bachelor of Veterinary Science in 1990 from Central to his research are socioeconomically nurses. the and began her driven inequities in population exposure to professional career as a state veterinary officer health information, part of the larger problem Alain Dehove, DVM, advanced master’s in Trinidad and Tobago while also working of health status inequities. He also launched a degree in economics & food industry part time in a private, small animal clinic. teaching program in media communication and management, is coordinator of the World During this time she developed a true passion health in the 1980s as an important addition to Animal Health and Welfare Fund of the World for public health and epidemiology. With the the public health intervention curriculum. He Organization for Animal Health (OIE), a multi aid of a Pan American Health Organization was honored in 2007 by the American Public donor trust fund for projects of international fellowship Dr. Engelke graduated with a Health Association for career achievement. public utility relating to the control of animal master’s in preventive veterinary medicine Dr. Finnegan chairs the board of directors of diseases, including those affecting humans, from the University of California, Davis in 1994, the Association of Schools of Public Health and the promotion of animal welfare and where her emphasis was public health. She through October 2014, and is a member of the animal production food safety. Dr. Dehove has subsequently returned to Trinidad and Tobago Framing the Future: The Second Hundred Years previously held short-term replacement jobs and worked as deputy director and then acting of Education for Public Health Task Force. He in veterinary practices. He was also posted director of the veterinary public health unit of also sustains strong interest in global health, at the French Embassy in London, at the the Ministry of Health. Dr. Engelke balanced learning innovations, and interprofessional French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries these governmental responsibilities with a part- education among the health professions in the in Paris, and at the European Commission in time lectureship in food safety at the Trinidad context of better integration of public health Brussels (Directorate General for Health and College of Health Sciences. and health care systems. Consumers). Dr. Dehove joined the OIE in July 2006. Anna Fagre, MPH, is a third-year veterinary Meghan Gibas, BS, MPH, is currently a student at Colorado State University (CSU). She second-year veterinary student at Colorado Bernadette Dunham, DVM, PhD, was completed her Master of Public Health (MPH) State University (CSU). She recently appointed director of the Center for Veterinary in 2012 as part of the dual degree MPH-Doctor completed her Master of Public Health with Medicine (CVM) at the Food and Drug of Veterinary Medicine program and currently a concentration in epidemiology. Ms. Gibas’ Administration (FDA) in 2008. The CVM enjoys participating in student organizations research interests include epidemiology with regulates the manufacture and distribution such as the CSU One Health Club, IVSA, and special interest in the study, prevention, and of drugs and food additives that are given to Wildlife Disease Association. Ms. Fagre’s control of zoonoses. As a former high school animals, including animals from which human passions lie in epidemiology, public health, biology teacher in New Mexico, Ms. Gibas foods are derived, and companion animals. international food security, and wildlife disease became interested in the effects of interactions Previous positions held by Dr. Dunham during ecology. After graduation in 2015, she hopes between humans, other animals, and the her tenure with the CVM include deputy to pursue a PhD in epidemiology or wildlife environment. She has since worked on research director, director of the Office of Minor Use and disease ecology. related to One Health at the Connecticut Minor Species Animal Drug Development, and Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, University deputy director of the Office of New Animal Duncan Ferguson, VMD, PhD, DACVIM, of Connecticut Center for Public Health, and Drug Evaluation. Dr. Dunham is also an adjunct DACVCP, a veterinary educator for 30 years the U.S. Department of Agriculture National professor in the Department of Biomedical at Cornell University, University of Georgia Center for Genetic Resource Preservation. Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia- and University of Illinois, was a co-founder of Most recently, she has been working as part of Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Veterinary Information Network, directing its the applied veterinary epidemiology group to Medicine, a position she has held since 1996. continual education division from 1990 to 1999. research zoonotic tuberculosis. Gibas is also Before joining FDA in 2002, Dr. Dunham was Dr. Ferguson is currently department head of a the current president of the CSU One Health acting director for the American Veterinary preclinical department responsible for first- and Club and is enthusiastic about her research Medical Association’s Governmental Relations second-year instruction in the recently adopted and a future career involving public health and Division. She has previously held a position veterinary curriculum at the University of veterinary medicine. as the director of laboratory animal medicine Illinois. He has taken a Fulbright Teaching and and adjunct professor of at the Research fellowship at the Hannover University Kirsten Gilardi, DVM, DACZM, is associate State University of New York Health Science of Veterinary Medicine in Germany to focus director for global health at the University of Center. She also participated in a postdoctoral on developing portable and culturally sensitive California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine residency program in the Department of learning materials to encourage critical clinical wildlife health center, and health sciences Pathology at the New York State College of thinking by veterinary students. clinical professor in the school’s department Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, and of medicine and epidemiology. At the wildlife was a research assistant professor at Boston John Finnegan Jr., MA, PhD, is dean of health center, she leads a marine-focused One University from 1984 to 1987. Before returning the School of Public Health at the University Health program called the SeaDoc Society to academia to pursue her Ph.D., Dr. Dunham of Minnesota and assistant vice president and is co-lead for implementation of the was in private practice in Ontario, Canada from for public health. He holds Master of Arts U.S. Agency for International Development 1975 to 1979. Dunham received the degree of and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in mass emerging pandemic threats PREDICT project Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the Ontario communication that he earned from the in Uganda and Rwanda. As well, Dr. Gilardi is

30 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference Speaker Biographies co-director of Gorilla Doctors, a partnership twinning program between UMN-CVM and the of Illinois. In 2003, Dr. Herrmann completed between the wildlife health center and the Chiang Mai University Faculty of Veterinary his Master of Public Health from the University nonprofit Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, Medicine to assess curricula. of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health which provides lifesaving veterinary care in in Health Policy and Administration. Through situ to endangered eastern gorillas as well as Carolyn Henry, MS, DVM, DACVIM, is a 2004, he continued in private practice and did preventive health care to the people who protect tenured full professor with dual appointments contract work for the Stephenson County Health their forest home. After earning her veterinary in the Department of Veterinary Medicine Department, primarily in community health doctorate in 1993, she conducted a three- at the College of Veterinary Medicine and assessment. From 2003 to 2004, Herrmann year residency in medical primatology at the the Department of Medicine, Division of served as a Science and Technology Policy California National Primate Research Center. Hematology and Oncology, in the School of Fellow in the United States Senate in the offices Gilardi is a past-president of the American Medicine at the University of Missouri. She of Sen. Richard Durbin and worked primarily Association of Wildlife Veterinarians. earned her veterinary doctorate at Auburn on public health policy legislation. He received University in 1990, her Master of Science from a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Illinois Eleanor Green, DVM, DACVIM, DABVP, Auburn in 1993, and gained board certification Wesleyan University in 1974 and graduated holds the Carl B. King deanship of the in oncology in 1994. Dr. Henry served on the from the University of Illinois College of Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Washington State University faculty before Veterinary Medicine in 1978. Upon graduation, Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Green’s relocating to the University of Missouri in Herrmann joined a private practice in Freeport, clinical interests have included general 1997. She has served on the American College Illinois, focusing on dairy herd health, small internal medicine, gastrointestinal disorders, of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) animal medicine and wildlife rehabilitation. neurologic disorders, diseases of the newborn, Board of Regents and is past president of Since 2003 Dr. Herrmann has also served as an and lameness. Her research interests are both the Veterinary Cancer Society and the adjunct professor at the University of Illinois primarily in the areas of endotoxemia, laminitis, ACVIM specialty of oncology. In April 2010 she at Chicago School of Public Health and at the neonatology, and gastric ulcer disease. Dr. was named faculty facilitator for the Mizzou University of Illinois at Rockford College of Green delivers lectures across the nation and Advantage One Health/One Medicine initiative Medicine. internationally on subjects related to her by the office of the provost—a position that clinical and research interests as well as equine serves to foster multidisciplinary educational Merrideth Holub, MS, is currently in her welfare issues. She also speaks on leadership, and research opportunities between human final year of a doctorate program in agriculture delivers keynote addresses and delivered and veterinary medicine and the basic sciences, education. Dr. Holub received her master’s commencement addresses to the graduating both within the University of Missouri and degree in agriculture education in 2009 and classes of veterinary students at Auburn with outside collaborators. In 2012 Dr. Henry bachelor’s degree in Animal Science in 2007 at University (1995), Mississippi State University was appointed as interim associate director Texas A&M University (TAMU). Her research (1995), and Louisiana State University (2010). of research for the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center work focuses on youth education about Additionally, Dr. Green has served as president and in 2013 assumed the role of interim zoonotic diseases. Dr. Holub served as the of three national organizations, the American associate dean for research and graduate Bastrop County 4-H and youth development Board of Veterinary Practitioners, the American studies for the college of veterinary medicine. agent for two years before moving to League Association of Veterinary Clinicians, and the Her research interests include canine bladder City and working for TAMU at Galveston as American Association of Equine Practitioners. cancer, mammary cancer, osteosarcoma, and an instructor, academic advisor, and program She has received several notable awards comparative oncology/cancer epidemiology. coordinator for two years. In June of 2012 she including induction into the National Cowgirl accepted the position of program coordinator Hall of Fame in 2013, a Distinguished Alumni Mary Elizabeth Herring, JD, is chair of the for the new One Health program at the TAMU Award from Auburn University College of department of humanities in medicine, and an College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Veterinary Medicine in 2011, and in 2004, associate professor at the Texas A&M University Sciences. The One Health program provides the CALS Award of Distinction, University of College of Medicine. She teaches medical ethics, research, education, and outreach programs Florida College of Agriculture and Life Sciences health law, and medical jurisprudence. She throughout campus and across the state for Alumni and Friends. Dr. Green is the lead dean has also taught undergraduate business law in faculty, students, staff, and society as a whole. of the One Health initiative at Texas A&M the department of management in the college Dr. Holub is a member of several professional University. of business. Ms. Herring attended Texas A&M associations including Gamma Sigma Delta an University as an undergraduate, receiving a International Honor Society of Agriculture, the Karin Hamilton, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, Bachelor of Arts in political science. In 1986, American Association of Agriculture Education, is a public health veterinarian at the University she received her law degree from South Texas and the Southern American Association of of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine College of Law in Houston and immediately Agriculture Education. (UMN-CVM). She earned her Doctor of moved to Austin, where she engaged in civil Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, and practice. In 1989, she accepted a position in the William Hueston, DVM, PhD, DACVPM, completed a veterinary public health residency Office of General Counsel for the Texas A&M directs global leadership programs of the program and a Master of Public Health at UMN. University system. In 1991 she joined the college Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, Before working at UMN, Dr. Hamilton served of medicine as special assistant to the vice University of Minnesota (UMN). He also serves as a veterinarian with the U.S. Army, where she president for health affairs and she joined the as director of the UMN Food Policy Research worked in the horn of Africa, the Middle East, college of medicine faculty. She serves on many Center and the World Organization for Animal and Asia, in addition to the U.S. For the past college of medicine and university committees. Health (OIE) Collaborating Center in Veterinary two and a half years, she has been working with She also serves on the board of directors of Services Capacity Building. Dr. Hueston holds Southeast Asian universities on an U.S. Agency Hospice Brazos Valley. faculty appointments in the college of veterinary for International Development funded project medicine and the school of public health. Most called RESPOND, which focuses on building John Herrmann, DVM, MPH, DACT, of his work focuses on One Health capacity- public health capacity in disease hotspots joined the faculty of the College of Veterinary building, public policy, and risk communication. around the world. As part of that project, Medicine in 2004 to develop and direct the He has a long history of creating and delivering Dr. Hamilton worked with an international, joint Doctor of Veterinary Medicine-Master of professional development programs for mid multidisciplinary team which developed global, Public Health degree program and serves as career government, industry, and academic regional, and national level One Health core the director of that program and of the Center professionals in collaboration with an competency domains and competencies. She is for One Health Illinois, which he co-founded in international consortium of universities, also working on the new World Organization 2007. In 2009, Dr. Herrmann was promoted government agencies, intergovernmental for Animal Health (OIE) veterinary educational to clinical associate professor at the University organizations, and the private sector. Before

2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 31 Speaker Biographies joining UMN in 2001, Dr. Hueston was biological weapons of mass destruction hazards, Gretchen Kaufman, DVM, moved to associate dean for the University of Maryland respectively. Services in several foreign animal Washington State University, in 2013, to campus of the Virginia-Maryland Regional disease outbreaks and natural disasters have serve as the assistant director for global College of Veterinary Medicine. He worked for given her experience in international level health education and training in the Paul G. the United States Department of Agriculture’s disease control, surveillance and monitoring, Allen School for Global Animal Health and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and national emergency preparedness and the coordinator for the global animal health from 1987 to 1996 during which he gained response. certificate program. In this role she plans international recognition for his work with to continue to pursue her strong interests the emerging disease, Bovine Spongiform Yvette Johnson-Walker, DVM, MS, PhD, in interdisciplinary one health education, Encephalopathy (BSE). Earlier experience is currently a clinical epidemiologist at the conservation medicine and international included teaching and research as a faculty University of Illinois College of Veterinary development. Dr. Kaufman graduated from member at Ohio State University, serving Medicine’s Center for One Health Illinois. Her Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine as a resident veterinarian for a large farmer research interests include food and water safety in 1986 and completed a residency in zoological cooperative, private veterinary practice, and security, and risk factors for interspecies medicine at the University of California, and community organizing in rural areas. transmission of zoonotic pathogens. Dr. Davis in 1989. She returned to Tufts to run Hueston holds a Bachelor of Arts in biology Johnson-Walker has conducted several training the exotic animal medicine service and later from the University of Virginia, and a Doctor and response exercises for public health joined the faculty at the Tufts wildlife clinic. Dr. of Veterinary Medicine, Master of Science professionals and infectious disease outbreak Kaufman was a founding member of the Tufts in preventive medicine, and a doctorate in responders in association with the Illinois University Center for Conservation Medicine epidemiology from Ohio State University. Department of Public Health, the Champaign- and served as the director from 2007 to 2012. Urbana Public Health District, and the Center At Tufts, Dr. Kaufman focused much of her Alicia Humlicek, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, for One Health Illinois. She continues to serve time on wildlife and conservation medicine worked as a small animal veterinarian before as the principal investigator for a three year curriculum development in the veterinary pursuing her MPH and also spent several years series of U.S. Department of Agriculture– program. She also spearheaded the effort to in . Dr. Humlicek is pursuing funded projects for development of exercises create a professional masters degree program in employment as a state or federal epidemiologist. and training materials for avian influenza conservation medicine, the first of its kind in the She received her DVM from Iowa State outbreak response in zoos and aquariums. U.S. In addition, as the chair for the education University College of Veterinary Medicine in Dr. Johnson-Walker is a member of the UIUC directorate at the Tufts Institute of the 1998, and her Master of Public Health (MPH) Infectious Disease Working Group that is Environment, she also assisted in coordinating degree from the University of Iowa College of charged with development and coordination environmental educational initiatives at the Public Health in 2013. For her MPH capstone of the UIUC campus response to an infectious university level. During this time she also project, Humlicek developed a zoonotic disease disease outbreak. She received bachelor’s initiated several projects in Nepal on rabies outbreak training scenario in collaboration with degrees in animal and veterinary sciences from control and wildlife health. In 2004, she was the One Health Coordination Office (OHCO), the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award Veterinary Services (VS), Animal and Plant (UIUC) in 1987. Johnson-Walker received her to develop a master’s-level wildlife course at Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1989 and the Nepal Institute for Agriculture and Animal Agriculture, and with the chief epidemiologist. a master’s in veterinary clinical medicine in Science. Dr. Humlicek also volunteered with the OHCO 1993, both from UIUC. In 1998, she completed to finalize and deliver the training scenario in a doctorate in analytical epidemiology from Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM, MS, PhD, the disease outbreak investigation course for VS Michigan State University. is a professor of at the University epidemiologists. of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Malika Kachani, DVM, PhD, is a professor Medicine, and his groundbreaking work Carla Huston, DVM, PhD, DACVPM, of parasitology and global health at the on influenza and his contributions to is responsible for teaching veterinary Western University of Health Sciences College understanding the relationship of animal and epidemiology, veterinary preventive medicine, of Veterinary Medicine. She is interested in human influenzas are a prime example of beef production medicine, and disaster neglected zoonotic diseases, veterinary public research that crosses boundaries by advancing preparedness in her current position at health, and One Health. Her current research both animal and human health. Dr. Kawaoka’s the Mississippi State University College area is cystic echinococcosis in animals and in work focuses on better understanding naturally of Veterinary Medicine (CVM). Outside of humans. Dr. Kachani has developed numerous occurring viruses to help government and health teaching, her focus is on production agriculture, programs to prevent and control zoonoses agencies improve measures for protecting agrosecurity, and livestock health and and to promote animal and public health the population. He achieved global attention quality assurance programs. Dr. Huston has involving various target audiences in Morocco in 2011 when he and an international team extensive experience in disaster response and and also conducts educational research on of researchers showed that the avian H5N1 preparedness. She serves as the veterinary interprofessional education and One Health. influenza virus could become transmissible in services branch director of the state animal She works with international organizations, mammals after just a few genetic mutations. response team and also as chair of the CVM such as The Food and Agriculture Organization In 2013, Kawaoka and his team collaborated animal disaster response committee. She is an of the United Nations (FAO) and the World with the National Institute of Infectious active member of numerous federal, state and Health Organization (WHO) on numerous Diseases, to conduct a genetic analysis local animal disaster response organizations and parasitic zoonoses, veterinary public health, and of the avian H7N9 flu virus, which has been is an appointed part-time peace officer for the dog population management for the control of linked to several deaths in China. The analysis local county sheriff’s office. Dr. Huston holds zoonotic diseases. Dr. Kachani is currently a revealed that the virus can evolve and adapt her undergraduate, veterinary, and graduate member of the WHO Strategic and Technical to human cells, prompting concerns about degrees from the Ohio State University. Advisory Group (STAG) for Neglected Tropical its potential to launch a global flu pandemic. Following graduation, she spent several years in Diseases and is the chair of the STAG working That same year he was elected to the National a mixed animal practice in northeast Ohio. Dr. group on neglected zoonotic diseases. She is Academy of Sciences as a foreign associate. Dr. Huston has trained at both the U.S. Department a member of the Stone Mountain One Health Kawaoka has actively mentored many students of Agriculture’s Agriculture Research Service Working Group and is a co-chair of the Proof of and published more than 450 peer-reviewed Plum Island Animal Diagnostic Center and Concept Sub-group. Dr. Kachani is a member of research articles, 100 review articles and book the Department of Homeland Security Center the One Border One Health Initiative combining chapters, and numerous abstracts in some of the for Domestic Preparedness in the detection scientists from Southern California and Baja world’s foremost scientific journals, including and prevention of foreign animal disease and California, Mexico. Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy

32 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference Speaker Biographies of Sciences, Cell, Science, and many others. medicine and holds the Ruth Stanton Endowed and evaluation of educational techniques He earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Chair in veterinary medicine. He also serves as for gross and microscopic . She is degree from The Ministry of Agriculture and the executive dean for the seven health science especially interested in helping students Fishery, Japan, and his bachelor’s, master’s, and colleges at OSU. Before becoming dean, he was develop their metacognitive awareness, doctoral degrees from Hokkaido University in the director of the National Center for Zoonotic, helping them make connections between their Japan. Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases at the various anatomy courses, and anticipating Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. applying their knowledge of anatomy to their Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf, DVM, King served as dean of the college of veterinary future professional practice. Dr. Klimek is PhD, DACZM, came to North Carolina State medicine at Michigan State University from also interested in the application of computer University in 1990 and is currently a professor 1996 to 2006. In 1992, Dr. King was appointed software and platforms in teaching and learning in the department of clinical sciences and administrator for the Animal and Plant Health in anatomy. She graduated from veterinary fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology Inspection Service (APHIS), U.S. Department of school at Purdue University in 1988, completing program. Her clinical expertise in wildlife Agriculture, in Washington, DC. He also served a master’s in anatomy education in 1996 at combined with her research experience in as the country’s chief veterinary officer for five Purdue before moving on to KSU. She is a infectious diseases directs her current interests years and received his Bachelor of Science and member and former coordinator of the planning in transmission of infectious agents at the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from The committee member for the Faculty Exchange wildlife, livestock, and human interface. In Ohio State University. He earned his Master of for Teaching Excellence, a group that hosts particular, she is focused on the spatial and Science in epidemiology from the University teaching- and learning-related seminars and temporal interactions of wildlife in relation of Minnesota and received his master’s degree workshops for KSU faculty and staff. to extreme weather events and landscape. in public administration from American Dr. Kennedy-Stoskopf received her Doctor University. Dr. King served as the chair for the Jodi Korich, DVM, is the founding director of Veterinary Medicine from Michigan State National One Health Task Force for the AVMA, of The center for educational technologies at University in 1976. She was a Smithsonian which helped start the One Health initiative Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Fellow at the National Zoo and was their in the U.S. He was elected as a member of the Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. She received first female veterinarian. She then organized Institute of Medicine of The National Academy her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell and taught one of the first core curricula of Sciences in 2004. University in 1997 and practiced companion in zoological medicine at the University of animal medicine in metropolitan Washington, Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine’s Tierney Kinnison, MSc, is a doctoral D.C. from 1997 to 2002. Since 2002, she has department of environmental practice before student at the Institute of Education and the worked in academia and was the founding entering The Johns Hopkins University as a Royal Veterinary College (RVC), University director of the partners in animal health postdoctoral student in neurovirology in the of London. She is funded by the Bloomsbury program at Cornell University from 2005 to school of medicine. Dr. Kennedy-Stoskopf Consortium. Miss Kinnison originally studied 2010. In 2010, Dr. Korich established the earned a doctorate in and animal behaviour as a Bachelor of Science and Center for Educational Technologies at Texas infectious diseases from the Johns Hopkins Master of Science student and has a special A&M University. The center employs seven full- School of Hygiene & Public Health in 1986 interest in animal welfare. After graduating, time educational technologists who work hand studying lentiviral infections in sheep and goats. Miss Kinnison worked briefly as a receptionist in hand with faculty and veterinarians from She is actively engaged in novel approaches to at a charity veterinary clinic before joining the around the world to design, develop, and deliver teach One Health concepts to diverse student RVC as a research assistant in the Lifelong innovative instructional materials. demographics and to provide public outreach Independent Veterinary Education (LIVE) for One Health. center. She worked on a variety of projects Joe Kornegay, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVIM, focused on veterinary and veterinary nursing is a professor of neuroscience in the Department Rutch Khattiya, DVM, PhD, joined the education, including preparation for workplace of Veterinary Integrative Sciences in the College faculty of veterinary medicine at Chiang learning, haptic technology, and business of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Mai University (CMU) as a lecturer in 1996. skills. In 2012, after almost five years of being Texas A&M University (TAMU). Dr. Kornegay’s At CMU, he became involved with the Free a research assistant, Miss Kinnison decided well-funded research is at the forefront of a University Berlin and the German Technical to undertake a doctoral program. Her topic is revolution in biomedical sciences in which Cooperation (GTZ) to set up a training course in interprofessional education within a purely purebred dog populations are ideal subjects fundamental serological diagnosis, with a focus veterinary context. Her interest in this topic for identifying specific genes associated with on veterinarians in southeast Asia. In 2003, was sparked by a small scale pilot study in diseases that affect both dogs and humans, such Dr. Khattiya completed a doctorate in aquatic interprofessional education between veterinary as cancer, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, and biosciences at the Tokyo University of Fisheries. nursing and veterinary medicine students at the heart disease. He has been praised as a leader After returning, he took on responsibilities RVC as well as her experience as a member of for the advancement of translational medicine in fish diseases and is also responsible for a “paraprofession”—a receptionist and animal who has developed a number of collaborations program development, as director of the behaviourist. Kinnison’s doctoral work will with schools of medicine and as someone who veterinary public health center for Asia Pacific. investigate current interprofessional working has worked to highlight the inextricable link He received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and learning in the veterinary field with a between human and animal health and between degree in 1994 from Khonkaen University in view to creating recommendations for colleges human and animal medicine. After receiving Thailand. After graduation, Khattiya started and universities with regard to integrating his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from work as a technical veterinarian in a veterinary interprofessional education in the curriculum. TAMU in 1973, Dr. Kornegay spent three years pharmaceutical company with responsibilities in private practice in Ohio and Texas, followed in swine and poultry herd health management Judy Klimek, BS, DVM, MS, teaches in all by six years in residency (neurology and and disease control. He has served as associate of the anatomy courses in the core curriculum pathology) and graduate (master’s and doctoral) dean for information technology, associate dean at Kansas State University (KSU) and is the training at the University of Georgia College for graduate studies, and, currently, as associate course coordinator for microscopic anatomy, of Veterinary Medicine. Upon completion of dean for academic affairs. comparative gross anatomy, practical use and this training, he served on the faculty of the interpretation of veterinary scientific literature, college of veterinary medicine at North Carolina Lonnie King, DVM, MS, MPA, DACVPM, and comparative embryology. Her scholarly State University before moving to the college became dean of the college of veterinary contribution is in the area of the scholarship of veterinary medicine at the University of medicine at The Ohio State University (OSU) of teaching, including investigating how to Missouri where he served as dean from 1998 in 2009. In addition, Dr. King is a professor teach so that students learn effectively. Dr. to 2006. Before coming to TAMU in 2012, in the department of veterinary preventive Klimek’s interests include the development Dr. Kornegay served as a tenured professor in

2014 AAVMC Annual Conference 33 Speaker Biographies the departments of pathology and laboratory a past chair of the Public Health Committee of and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). medicine and neurology, and investigator in the the Association of American Veterinary Medical Before joining USDA, Tracey spent seven years Gene Therapy Center, School of Medicine, at the Colleges. Dr. Lindenmayer has been funded for as an epidemiologist in federal and state public University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. One Health by the Rockefeller Foundation and health agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Cummings school award from the U.S. Agency Control and Prevention (CDC), the Indian Rebekah Kunkel, MS, MPH, is an Oak for International Development’s RESPOND Health Service, and the Alaska Department of Ridge Institute for Science and Education fellow program, for which she served as co-principal Health and Human Services working across with the One Health office at the U.S. Centers investigator. She recently co-chaired the the spectrum from outbreak investigation for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a national stakeholders meeting organized by and response to policy development. She position she has held since 2011. During her the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics was initially hired into the APHIS Veterinary time with the One Health office, she has worked and sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts Services (VS) division to assist in building closely with the Stone Mountain Meeting on the use of antimicrobial drugs in food effective collaborations and methods for Training workgroup on a variety of projects to animal production. Dr. Lindenmayer’s coordinating zoonotic disease surveillance and enhance training of the One Health workforce. primary research interests include expanding data sharing activities between VS and CDC. One of these projects led to the development use of electronic veterinary medical records, Dr. Lynn spent nine years in various roles, of One Health core competencies for three antimicrobial resistance, and integration of including several managerial positions. She different levels of One Health practitioners. veterinarians into the public health system. specializes in facilitating the development of Before joining the One Health office, Ms. Kunkel innovative partnerships with federal agencies, spent two years with CDC’s division of global Juan Lubroth, DVM, PhD, DACVPM, academia, and industry to increase efficiency migration and quarantine where she focused on is the chief veterinary officer of the Food and effectiveness of managing complex health improving infectious disease surveillance at U.S. and Agriculture Organization of the United threats through cross-disciplinary collaboration. ports of entry. Ms. Kunkel completed graduate Nations (FAO). Dr. Lubroth previously Her current priorities include working with studies in both ecology and epidemiology served for seven years as the senior officer the University of Minnesota to identify applied and has a particular interest in the ecology of of FAO’s Animal Health Service and head of research projects and enhance One Health zoonotic and vectorborne diseases. the Infectious Diseases Group/Emergency training and education opportunities. Dr. Lynn Prevention System in charge of worldwide is an alumnus of the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Iskande Larkin, PhD, received her Doctor of surveillance, capacity building, and progressive Service. Philosophy from the University of Florida (UF) control of transboundary animal diseases. College of Veterinary Medicine in 2000. Her He has worked extensively throughout Latin Vanessa Mariani, MBA, is the director of work focused on reproductive physiology and America, North Africa, and the Middle East. innovation and strategic initiatives for cattle behavior of Florida manatees. She was able to He has initiated several major initiatives for and equine in the U.S. operation of Zoetis. In continue her research as a postdoctoral student the control of transboundary animal diseases this role, she is responsible for the development at the UF department of zoology in the college in Central Asia, South Asia, southern Africa, of new business enterprises for the business of liberal arts and sciences. The aquatic animal and has served on the Pan African Program for unit; she serves as the business development health program at the UF College of Veterinary the Control of Epizootics Advisory Committee. liaison and manages the marketing strategy Medicine hired Dr. Larkin as an assistant Dr. Lubroth was the driving force behind for food safety portfolio. Before assuming her research professor and education coordinator several key cooperative initiatives of FAO current role, Ms. Mariani served as director for the program in 2005. She has since moved to with the World Health Organization (WHO) of the academic and professional affairs team a lecturer position and become heavily involved and World Organization for Animal Health in the U.S. where she was responsible for in course development, including multiple (OIE), including the Global Framework for Zoetis’ interactions and strategic collaborations new online courses and a certificate in aquatic the Progressive Control of Transboundary with colleges of veterinary medicine as well animal medicine. Dr. Larkin has worked with Animal Diseases, the Global Early Warning as strategic initiatives to support veterinary online courses for more than five years, and her System for major animal diseases including students and other emerging veterinary courses include aquatic wildlife health, aquatic zoonoses (GLEWS), the establishment of professionals. Ms. Mariani has held several animal conservation issues, and manatee health the Crisis Management Center for Animal marketing and business functions, from Latin and conservation. Health, and the One Health concept at FAO. America to global marketing and new product As an expert on animal health and infectious development, across species since joining Pfizer Joann Lindenmayer, DVM, MPH, is disease transmission, Dr. Lubroth is often Animal Health in 2000. An industrial engineer, an associate professor in the department of called to assist in bringing animal production Ms. Mariani holds a Master of Business infectious disease and global health at the Tufts and health perspectives to the work of the Administration from the Instituto Tecnológico University Cummings School of Veterinary WHO on issues related to zoonoses, biological Autónomo de México. Medicine and holds secondary appointments safety of laboratories, and matters regarding at Tufts University School of Medicine and the bioterrorism and agroterrorism. He leads Keith Martin, MD, is a physician who, since Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. FAO’s animal health activities against H5N1, 2013, has served as the executive director She is director of the Doctor of Veterinary H1N1, and H7N9, Rift Valley fever, rabies, peste of the Consortium of Universities for Global Medicine-Master of Public Health track at des petits ruminants, brucellosis, and other Health (CUGH) based in Washington, DC. The Tufts medical school where she directs and high-impact diseases as well as strengthening Consortium is a rapidly growing organization teaches a number of courses that take a One veterinary and links to public health systems of over 120 academic institutions from around Health approach to teaching and learning. She around the world and continuing education. the world that harnesses a broad range of and faculty colleagues from the medical school Dr. Lubroth received his bachelor’s degree in disciplines across institutions to address global and the graduate school of arts and sciences biology from Whitman College and worked as health challenges. It is focused on improving were the first recipients of funding from a wildlife biologist before continuing studies at health outcomes for the global poor. From the provost’s inaugural university seminars the University of Georgia where he earned both 1993 to 2011, Dr. Martin served as a Member initiative for their seminar, “One Health: a master’s degree in medical microbiology in of Parliament in Canada’s House of Commons, Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Health 1982 and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in representing a riding on Vancouver Island. of People, Animals, and the Environment.” A 1985. During that time he held shadow ministerial former EIS officer and fellow in the Centers portfolios in foreign affairs, international for Disease Control and Prevention’s state- Tracey Lynn, DVM, MS, DACVPM, is development, and health and also served as based epidemiology for public health practice part of a team coordinating the animal health Canada’s Parliamentary Secretary for Defense. program, Dr. Lindenmayer joined the faculty component of One Health within the U.S. Dr. Martin’s main areas of specialization at the Tufts Cummings school in 2006. She is Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and interest are global health, international

34 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference Speaker Biographies development, foreign policy, conservation, and More recently he has worked in the field of medicine seminar course, and several courses at the environment. He is particularly interested in biopharmaceutical competitive research, and the Public Health Institute, which address topics building and retaining capacity in low-income has advised clinical veterinary groups about such as public health research, interprofessional settings and scaling up proven interventions incorporating electronic medical records to collaboration, the role of companion animals that will improve environmental and human provide evidence-based improvements in in public health, and food safety from farm to security. As a parliamentarian, Dr. Martin patient care into their practices. table. Her research interests include infectious created CanadaAid.ca, an online platform to disease epidemiology focusing on the human facilitate partnerships between universities, Ron McLaughlin, DVM, DVSc, DACVS, animal interface. To study these interactions, governments, multilateral institutions, NGOs, received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree Dr. Minicucci has current projects looking and the private sector in order to strengthen from the University of Missouri and Doctor of at influenza, West Nile virus, and neospora north-south and south-south partnerships, Veterinary Science degree from the University caninum. Additionally, she has a developing scale-up research findings in low-income of Guelph. He currently serves as head of the interest in the areas of cultural competence communities, and bridge the knowledge- Department of Clinical Sciences and director and zoonotic disease prevention as it relates to needs gap. He has also worked to mainstream of special operations at the Mississippi State community health. sustainable conservation and environmental University College of Veterinary Medicine. practices into international development Since 2009 Rafael Gianella Mondadori, initiatives to achieve positive outcomes for the Matt Mellema, DVM, PhD, DACVECC DVM, MSc, PhD, has worked as a professor environment and people. joined the faculty at UC, Davis in 2007 as an and researcher of a Brazilian public university, assistant professor of small animal emergency with papers published in the field of animal Melissa Mazan, BA, DVM, DACVIM, is and critical care. At present his laboratory is reproduction and veterinary education where associate professor and section head for large heavily focused on vascular pathobiology and he teaches courses in the fields of and animal medicine and surgery at the Tufts the exploration of endothelial microparticles as animal reproduction. From 1998 to 2008 he University Cummings School of Veterinary diagnostic and therapeutic tools in veterinary was director of a veterinary medicine college Medicine. Dr. Mazan’s work focuses on using medicine. Dr. Mellema’s other research and responsible for its implementation. Dr. the internet and teleconferencing to bridge interests include nitric oxide biology and Mondadori graduated in veterinary medicine in the gap in international veterinary medical nonendothelial cellular microparticles in health 1995, received a master’s degree in veterinary education. His clinical research includes large and disease. He is co-director of the small medicine in 1997, and a Doctor of Philosophy animal pulmonology and clinical applications of animal intensive care unit and the small animal in 2008. For ten years he has been a member stem cell biology. emergency critical care residency program at of the National Commission on Veterinary UC, Davis. Dr. Mellema is a native of northern Education from the Brazilian Federal Board of Jonna Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PhD, is a California and did his undergraduate training Veterinary Medicine. professor of epidemiology and disease ecology at the University of California (UC), Berkeley. and director of the One Health Institute in He received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Elsa Herdiana Murhandarwati, PhD, the University of California, Davis School of degree from UC, Davis in 1994. Following is an academic staff and a researcher at the Veterinary Medicine where she focuses on graduation, Dr. Mellema completed a focused parasitology department and center for tropical global health problem solving, especially for internship in small animal emergency medicine medicine, faculty of medicine, Universitas emerging infectious disease and conservation at Tufts University and remained at Tufts as an Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Indonesia. She earned challenges. Dr. Mazet is active in international instructor for an additional year. He then went her medical degree from the faculty of medicine One Health research programs, especially to work for Cardiopet, Inc., now part of IDEXX, in 1998 and her master’s from the postgraduate disease transmission among wildlife, domestic as a consultant in cardiothoracic medicine. program in tropical medicine in 2000 at the animals, and people, such as tuberculosis in Mellema completed a residency in emergency faculty of medicine at UGM. Dr. Murhandarwati Africa, pathogen pollution of California coastal and critical care medicine at UC, Davis in 2000 obtained her doctorate degree from Monash waters, and the development of zoonotic disease and is a Diplomate of the American College University in Australia in 2010. She is currently surveillance, all using multi-institutional, of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. a deputy head of the postgraduate program of transdisciplinary approaches. Currently, she is Following his residency, Dr. Mellema went back tropical medicine at UGM. Her research interest the principal investigator and global director to Boston to get his Doctor of Philosophy in is in malaria and neglected diseases/zoonosis. of a $75 million viral emergence early warning respiratory physiology at Harvard University. Dr. Murhandarwati is involved in the Strategic project, named PREDICT, with the US Agency He serves as director of a multi-investigator Network on Neglected Diseases and Zoonosis for International Development’s Emerging joint laboratory for the study of comparative that aims to stimulate and support research Pandemic Threats Program. Dr. Mazet assists critical illness. related to neglected infectious diseases and governments, institutions, and the public with zoonoses in the South. emerging environmental and global health threats and emergency response. She was Larissa Minicucci, DVM, MPH, CPH, David Muwanguzi, BVM, is a One Health recently elected to the National Academies’ DACVPM, is currently the director of the resident and a master’s student in international Institute of Medicine in recognition of her DVM/MPH program and the co-director of infectious diseases management at the College successful and innovative approach to emerging the veterinary public health and preventive of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and environmental and global health threats. medicine residency program at the University Biosecurity, at Makerere University, where of Minnesota. She holds a faculty appointment he earned his bachelor’s degree in veterinary Michael McGuill, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, as an assistant professor in the department medicine. Before joining the residency program, is an adjunct assistant professor in public of veterinary population medicine at the Dr. Muwanguzi worked as a veterinary officer health and community medicine with the Tufts college of veterinary medicine and an adjunct with the government of Uganda and gained University Cummings School of Medicine, appointment at the school of public health. vast experience in dealing with rural and currently teaching in the combined DVM/ Before her work at the University of Minnesota, pastoral communities. His focus areas include MPH and the masters in conservation medicine Dr. Minicucci was employed both in private farmer training, agricultural extension, medical programs at the Cummings School where practice as a mixed-animal veterinarian in treatment of animals and herds, public health he has taught biostatistics, epidemiology, Pennsylvania and as an epidemiologist (EIS (food safety zoonotic diseases), disease control, research skills, community medicine, and officer) at the Centers for Disease Control and regulatory and enforcement work. Working other public and one health-related courses. and Prevention focusing on vector-borne with the Ugandan government has enabled Dr. McGuill formerly served as the state public diseases. Dr. Minicucci currently teaches a Muwanguzi to appreciate the challenges of health veterinarian with the Massachusetts senior veterinary rotation in public health and working with little or no funding. Department of Public Health for ten years. regulatory medicine, an international veterinary

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Shamialh Namusisi, BVM, is currently of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University Stephanie Ostrowski, DVM, MPVM, working on a One Health residents USAID where she teaches and mentors students in DACVPM, joined the faculty of the Auburn RESPOND capacity building project with professional and graduate programs. Since University College of Veterinary Medicine in technical support from the University of 2009, Dr. Nutter has also been the senior 2013 following a 21-year career as a U.S. Public Minnesota. She has One Health interest in veterinary technical officer for the U.S. Agency Health Service officer (Veterinary Category) the areas of community health improvement for International Development’s RESPOND at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and through community engagement, evidence- Project, a global collaboration among Tufts Prevention (CDC). Her career has spanned based advocacy, and improved public health University, University of Minnesota, DAI, multiple CDC program areas and exemplifies practices. Dr. Namusisi has worked at the Ecology and Environment, and TRG, which the One Health triad of people, animals, and the National Animal Genetic Resource Center and supports capacity development with a One environment. From 1987 to 1993, Dr. Ostrowski Databank , FARM-Africa Dairy Goat and Animal Health approach. Core activities include worked in environmental health and , Healthcare Project that covered Kenya, Uganda, networking 28 schools of public health, first at the National Center for Environmental and Tanzania in different capacities at the field veterinary medicine, nursing, and environment Health (NCEH) and then at the Agency for Toxic and management level. She holds a degree in in both Africa and Southeast Asia to promote Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). veterinary medicine from Makerere University a One Health approach among future From 1993 to 1999, she worked in the National and a postgraduate diploma in international graduates and also developing One Health Center for Infectious Diseases’ Division of animal health from the . core competencies, curriculum modules and Global Migration and Quarantine. In 2001, Dr. Namusisi also has training in livestock, experiential opportunities to support One Dr. Ostrowski was appointed as the Terrorism livelihoods, and gender, training of trainers, and Health teaching and training. Dr. Nutter Preparedness Program director for ATSDR; community development, among others. received her undergraduate degree in biology she served in CDC’s emergency responses to and psychology from Yale University, her 9/11, anthrax, H5N1 avian influenza, multiple Lisa Nolan, DVM, PhD, became the Dr. veterinary degree from Tufts, and her Doctor hurricane seasons, and as animal issues co-lead Stephen G. Juelsgaard Dean of Veterinary of Philosophy from North Carolina State for 2006 Gulf Coast recovery operations. She Medicine and the college of veterinary University. Previous work experience includes currently teaches public health and provides medicine’s 15th dean in January 2011 at stints with the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary career advice to undergraduate and veterinary Iowa State University (ISU). She has been a Project in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic professional students at Auburn University. professor, administrator and researcher at Republic of Congo; The Marine Mammal Center ISU since 2003. Dr. Nolan has served the ISU in Sausalito, CA; and as assistant director of Juan de Jesus Taylor Preciado, MV, College of Veterinary Medicine as associate Veterinary International Programs at North MsC, is dean of the veterinary medicine college dean for research and graduate studies; Carolina State University. at the University of Guadalajara. He is also associate dean for academic and student president of the Panamerican Association of affairs; chair of the department of veterinary Debra Olson, DNP, MPH, RN, COHN-S, Veterinary Medicine Colleges, a past president microbiology and preventive medicine; and FAAOHN, is the associate dean for global of the Mexican Veterinary Medicine Colleges interim chair of the department of veterinary health at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Association, and a past president of the diagnostic and production animal medicine. School of Public Health and is responsible Panamerican Veterinary Education Council She has gained international recognition for developing strategic partnerships for the (COPEVET). as a researcher for her rigorous work in the delivery of lifelong learning opportunities for area of E. coli, for which she holds three U.S. interdisciplinary health professional students Valerie Ragan, DVM, is director of the patents. In recent years, Dr. Nolan has given and the public health practice community. Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary several invited presentations around the world, These programs are developed to increase Medicine on the Maryland campus of the written numerous refereed journal articles the availability of public health education Virginia-Maryland Regional College of and book chapters, and garnered millions of worldwide and to enhance the capability of Veterinary Medicine (VMRCVM). Dr. Ragan dollars in research funds. Before joining Iowa working professionals through the application is responsible for expansion of the center State University, she was a professor in the of innovative teaching techniques such as in the areas of public health and policy, and department of veterinary and microbiological technology-enhanced learning. Her years of international veterinary medicine, with sciences at North Dakota State University experience in the practice of public health opportunities for student engagement in where she also was founding director of the and an extensive background in the delivery national and international veterinary and Great Plains Institute of Food Safety from 1999 of public health academic and professional animal health organizations. Dr. Ragan also to 2003. Dr. Nolan has served as an associate education allows for leadership both in the works globally on the control and eradication editor of the Diseases of Poultry and on the global community and the university. Dr. Olson of brucellosis, a major disease of importance in advisory and editorial boards of Avian Diseases engages university partners with the Food and livestock and human health. Before joining the and mentored many postdoctoral fellows, Agriculture Organization of the UN addressing VMRCVM, she was the president of AgWorks graduate students, undergraduate researchers, global food security issues. As a member of the Solutions LLC, an agriculture and veterinary and visiting scientists. Dr. Nolan is a member of U.S. Agency for International Development consulting company. Her activities included numerous professional associations, including funded RESPOND initiative, Dr. Olson develops resolving animal health issues, such as disease the American Veterinary Medical Association, education and capacity building opportunities control, eradication, and surveillance, and American Association of Avian Pathologists, within university networks in Central and East international veterinary capacity building. From American Society for Microbiology, Research Africa, and Southeast Asia. She is principal 1988 to 2006, she worked for the Veterinary Workers in Animal Diseases and Iowa investigator for the University of Minnesota Services program with U.S. Department of Veterinary Medical Association. She received Simulations, Exercises and Effective Education Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Master of (U-SEEE) Centers for Disease Control and Inspection Service. After five years of private Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Prevention funded centers for public health practice, Dr. Ragan started with USDA as a the University of Georgia. preparedness research and preparedness veterinary medical officer. She then served as an education and training. Dr. Olson is a professor area epidemiologist, senior staff veterinarian/ Felicia Nutter, DVM, PhD, DACZM, is in the division of environmental health sciences national brucellosis epidemiologist, and as a wildlife veterinarian and epidemiologist at the school of public health and an adjunct assistant deputy administrator of the agency’s working on health issues at the interfaces instructor in the school of nursing and the Veterinary Services program. In that capacity, among wildlife, domestic animals, humans, and University of North Dakota School of Medicine Ragan served as the national animal health the environments they share. She is the director and Health Sciences. She also serves as surveillance coordinator, and established the of the International Veterinary Medicine executive director of the UMN AHC Center for National Surveillance Unit at USDA’s Center Program (IVM) at the Cummings School Global Health and Social Responsibility. for Epidemiology and Animal Health. After

36 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference Speaker Biographies preveterinary work at Virginia Tech, Dr. Ragan Denmark working mainly with veterinary In this latter position, Dr. Sanchez helps received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine epidemiology, surveillance, and disease control coordinate UGA’s efforts in the integration degree in 1983 from the University of Georgia. in a One Health setting. Dr. Rosenbaum Nielsen of animal, human, and environmental health She also completed postgraduate work in has contributed to scientific investigations teaching, research, and outreach. She has biostatistics and epidemiology at the University and development of relevance for elimination received numerous microbiology and research of Michigan School of Public Health. of zoonotic and animal health comprising mentoring awards. Dr. Sanchez’s research bacteriae, including salmonella, in the Danish focuses primarily on studying the ecology of Emma Read, DVM, DACVS, is a graduate cattle population; control of salmonella in antimicrobial resistance in bacteria isolated of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine pigs and pork; design and evaluation of risk- from animals and their zoonotic potential. She in Saskatoon and completed a large animal based surveillance; and control programs earned a Doctor of Philosophy and Bachelor of surgical residency at the University of Georgia. for animal diseases and zoonotic infections Science from the Universidad Complutense in Following board certification with the American on-farm, at abattoirs, and meat inspection, Madrid and a Master of Science from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Dr. Read taught economic evaluations and impact assessment of Veterinary College in London. Dr. Sanchez is a on faculty at the Ontario Veterinary College, production animal diseases. She has provided fellow of the prestigious Society for Biology. worked in private referral practice in Alberta scientific support to the relevant ministries on and joined the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine development of legislation related to disease Jishu Shi, DVM, PhD, is professor of at the University of Calgary in 2007. She is control programs. Dr. Rosenbaum Nielsen immunology and the director of the U.S.-China the chair of the Clinical Skills Courses, which is also heavily involved in development of new Center for Animal Health, and special assistant comprise 20 percent of the DVM program, and educational methods and courses, including to the provost for China Affairs at Kansas teaches students all their hands-on veterinary e-learning courses, One Health scenarios, and a State University (KSU). He was instrumental skills in the first three years of the program. Dr. One Health summer school run in collaboration in establishing the Kansas State University Read has spoken at national and international with two universities in Copenhagen. and China Scholarship Council joint Doctor conferences, and conducts research into the use of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) program that assessment methods and clinical simulation. Diafuka Saila-Ngita, DVM, PhD, is a will train 50 Chinese students in the next 10 research assistant professor at the Cummings years through American Veterinary Medical Alison Robbins, DVM, MS, is a research School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts Association– accredited DVM programs in assistant professor, core faculty, and program University. Dr. Saila-Ngita joined Tufts the U.S. For the first time in 63 years since coordinator for the Masters of Science degree University in 2010. He is a trained veterinarian 1950, students from China are being supported in conservation medicine at Tufts University and has a doctoral degree in economics. He by their home country to earn a Doctor of Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. has several years of experience working in Veterinary Medicine degree from the United Robbins’ research concentrates on infectious human, animal and, environmental health States. As special assistant to the Provost for wildlife diseases of conservation and public projects in Africa and in the United States. Dr. China Affairs at KSU, Dr. Shi is also working health importance. She received a Bachelor of Saila-Ngita provides technical support to the with the Chinese government and universities Science in biochemistry from the University U.S. Agency for International Development to set up a special Confucius Institute at KSU of New Hampshire, a Master of Science in RESPOND Africa project in disease surveillance with a focus on traditional Chinese veterinary biology with a concentration in conservation and outbreak response capacity building for medicine. Dr. Shi teaches veterinary physiology biology and a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine countries in the region and to One Health to the first-year students at the KSU college of both from Tufts University. She was director Central and Eastern Africa, a university network veterinary medicine. He is an author of more from 1992 to 2008 for a wildlife rabies control of 14 schools of public health and faculty of than 100 publications in refereed journals, program using oral vaccination of free-ranging veterinary medicine of six African countries. Dr. conference proceedings, and book chapters. Dr. raccoons in Massachusetts. In 2006 she was a Saila-Ngita began his career in the Democratic Shi’s research focuses on the development of visiting scholar in Australia for a year studying Republic of the Congo in the early 1980s where vaccines for high consequence animal diseases amphibian chytrid disease epidemiology. Since he worked for the Ministry of Agriculture as and he is a frequent consultant to animal health 2009, Dr. Robbins has focused her research on an animal health and production outreach companies in the U.S., China, and Europe. As developing diagnostic and treatment methods officer. He later was transferred to the Ministry the director of U.S.-China Center for Animal for white nose syndrome in bats in North of Planning in 1986 where he was in charge Health, Dr. Shi is devoted to advance veterinary America. For the academic year 2012/2013, of livestock, fisheries, rural development, and education and practice standards in China and Dr. Robbins was program director for the environment projects. In the United States, he around the world. conservation medicine masters’ program, worked on HIV/AIDS risk reduction program and continues to develop interdisciplinary targeting active drug users and also on Medicare Ayona Silva-Fletcher, BVSc, PhD, is curriculum, teach courses, and mentor students. programs focusing on breast cancer, diabetes, a veterinarian with a doctorate in Animal and low income communities. He coordinated Nutrition and is a senior lecturer in veterinary Carrie Roder, BEng, MEd, is currently a the World Health Organization Macro education at LIVE (Lifelong and Independent lecturer in veterinary education working in the Economics and Health project in Rwanda Veterinary Education) at the Royal Veterinary LIVE center at the Royal Veterinary College, managed by Columbia University. He was part College, London. Dr. Silva-Fletcher is the course London. After completing a PGCE in Science of the team that set up a Centers for Disease director for the Master of Science program in with physics, she spent three years teaching Control and U.S. President’s Emergency Plan veterinary education, the first discipline-specific and developing learning resources, first at a for AIDS Relief–funded wireless system for an veterinary education program developed secondary school in Essex and then at the Royal HIV/AIDS data collection and sharing program anywhere in the world. The program is designed Observatory, Greenwich. She has a master’s in Rwanda in 2004.. In 2008, he led, in Uganda, for veterinary and paraveterinary educators and in education from Cambridge University and the first successful registration in Africa of is offered via face-to-face and distance learning. is currently writing her doctoral thesis that the drug misoprostol for the prevention of In 2010 she completed a Master of Arts in looks at the hidden curriculum of veterinary postpartum hemorrhage, the leading cause of medical education, and this degree, which was education. maternal mortality in Africa. taken more than 20 years after her doctorate, provided not only an opportunity to reconnoiter Liza Rosenbaum Nielsen, DVM, PhD, Susan Sanchez, PhD, FSB, serves as section a different discipline but also to experience DrVetSci, DECVPH, works as professor in head for microbiology and andragogy at first hand. Her pedagogic research Disease Control and Prevention at the Faculty in the University of Georgia’s (UGA) College focuses on the use of online and distance of Health and Medical Sciences in Copenhagen. of Veterinary Medicine Diagnostic Laboratory, learning for postgraduate and adult education. There she is responsible for research and assistant director for the Biomedical Health In 2012, Dr. Silva-Fletcher was awarded the teaching at the only veterinary school in Sciences Institute, and chair of One Health. National Teaching Fellowship, awarded by the

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Higher Education Academy, UK for individual UF. Dr. Specht’s primary clinical and research One health ultimatum. excellence. interests are in the areas of urology/nephrology and hematology/hemostasis, but since 2005 John Tegzes, MA, VMD, DABVT, is the Bruce Smith, VMD, PhD, received his he has been part of a multidisciplinary team director of interprofessional education at veterinary degree and Doctor of Philosophy in working to develop and improve gene therapy Western University of Health Sciences. Dr. genetics from the University of Pennsylvania protocols for glycogen storage diseae type Ia Tegzes is a founding faculty member of the in 1988 and 1993, respectively, following utilizing a canine model colony at UF. College of Veterinary Medicine at Western graduation from Haverford College, with a where he was instrumental in the development bachelor’s in biology. While at the University Brenda Stevens, DVM, DABVP, was in and implementation of the Problem-Based of Pennsylvania, he was a member of the private small animal practice in New Jersey Learning curriculum. He has trained more than Veterinary Medical Scientist Trainee Program and Connecticut until relocating to North 400 faculty from three institutions, in small and a Kleberg Fellow. In 1993, he joined Auburn Carolina in 2003 following graduation from the group facilitation practices and skills and is University where he is currently a scientist Michigan State University College of Veterinary passionate about veterinary education, currently in the Scott-Ritchey Research Center and a Medicine. In 2003, she began volunteering serving as president of Veterinary Education professor of pathobiology at the college of with the Community Practice Mobile Unit at Worldwide (ViEW.) His educational experience veterinary medicine. Dr. Smith is the director North Carolina State University and continued includes a BSN in Nursing from Thomas of the Auburn University Research Initiative volunteering until hire in 2006. As a clinical Jefferson University, a Master of Arts in Applied in Cancer (AURIC). This program seeks to assistant professor for the community practice, Psychology from the University of Santa enhance and expand cancer research at Auburn Dr. Stevens also developed and directed Monica, and a veterinary doctorate from the University and to build collaborations and the shelter medicine program. In 2011, she University of Pennsylvania. Tegzes completed research partnerships throughout the region transitioned to direct the general practice for residency training in clinical and diagnostic and the country. Dr. Smith’s teaching focuses on the college. toxicology at the University of California, Davis. genetics and molecular biology and his research He has worked interprofessionally as both a focuses on genetic and cell-based therapies Francisco Suárez-Güemes, DVM, MSc, nurse and a veterinarian, and has presented of cancer and muscular dystrophies and the PhD, is the associated dean of planning at the extensively on interprofessional education and translation of these therapies into a clinical National Autonomous University of México practice topics. setting. (UNAM) College of Veterinary Medicine, and the president of the National Counsel for Grace Thaxton is a senior at Auburn Woutrina Smith, DVM, MPVM, PhD, is Animal Health of México. Dr. Suárez-Güemes is University majoring in microbiology and a veterinarian and an associate professor of also a past president of the Veterinary Academy minoring in public health. She plans to pursue infectious disease epidemiology in the school of México and a member of the Conference a Doctor of Philosophy in public health of veterinary medicine at the University of of Research Workers in Animal Diseases. He and tropical disease following graduation. California (UC), Davis. She attended Pomona received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Throughout her undergraduate career, Ms. College and obtained veterinary, masters, and Master of Science in microbiology from UNAM, Thaxton has been awarded several research doctoral degrees at UC, Davis. Dr. Smith’s and his Doctor of Philosophy from Colorado fellowships to study avian infectious bronchitis research focuses on the epidemiology of State University. virus genomes. She hopes to combine her zoonotic pathogens in coastal ecosystems of experience in viral genetics with her interest in California and at human-animal:environment Andrew Tamale, MVPM, is an educator vector-borne diseases, and ultimately attain a interfaces internationally, such as current and researcher at Makerere University and one research position in tropical disease prevention projects in Tanzania, India, and . of the architects of the One Health residency and control. As education coordinator for the One Health program. He has a passion for development Center of Expertise of the UC Global Health especially job and wealth creation along the In 2010, Dominic Travis, DVM, MS, became Institute and as capacity building coordinator fish value chain using the academic, public, associate professor of wildlife epidemiology in for the U.S. Agency for International and private partnership in AFRISA. He is also the ecosystem health initiative at the College of Development PREDICT program, she works to interested in a multidisciplinary approach to Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota promote collaborative One Health research and problem solving, and as such is a One Health (UMN) in 2010, with an adjunct appointment in education locally and globally. enthusiast. Dr. Tamale was trained as a the UMN School of Public Health. In this role, veterinarian in 2002 at Makerere University; he has been highly involved in the U.S. Agency Marcy Souza, DVM, MPH, DABVP, undertook the Masters of Veterinary Preventive for International Development Emerging DACVPM, is an assistant professor of public Medicine, which he completed in 2010 and is Pandemic Threats RESPOND program, and health and wildlife medicine at the University currently pursuing a Master of Public Health spent much of his recent time teaching and of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. at the University of Minnesota. He has had conducting ecosystem health research in She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine various trainings in scholarly writing, statistical Africa. In 2008, he became vice president of (DVM) degree from North Carolina State analysis, proposal and grant writing, adult conservation and science at LPZ with oversight University and her Master of Public Health learning, risk analysis, and geo-spatial mapping of five research centers consisting of more (MPH) from the University of Tennessee. and remote sensing. He has served and worked than 50 scientific staff in North America, Latin Dr. Souza teaches infectious and zoonotic for government consultancies, private sector, America, and Africa. From 2000 to 2010, Dr. diseases in both the DVM and MPH programs rural communities and in hard to reach areas Travis served as veterinary epidemiologist at at the University of Tennessee. She also in various capacities. Dr. Tamale has also won the Lincoln Park Zoological Society (LPZ) in researches infectious disease and therapeutics research grants and worked with the Inter Chicago where he created a research center in nondomestic animals and is a zoo vet in the University Council of East Africa, Victoria in ecosystem health, co-founding the Zoo college’s clinical service. Researchers, U.S. Agency for International Animal Health Network (ZAHN) in North Development and has presented in various America and two projects in Tanzania—the Andrew Specht, DVM, DACVIM, is conferences and other international fora in Gombe Ecosystem Health Project and the currently a clinical assistant professor at the Rwanda, Kenya, , Belgium, Senegal, Serengeti Health Initiative. He received his University of Florida (UF). He obtained his and the U.S. Dr. Tamale’s research interests are Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Michigan DVM from the University of Minnesota in 2000, food safety, risk analysis, and epidemiology, State University in 1997, and a Master of then completed a one-year rotating internship especially of zoonoses that are constantly Science in epidemiology from the University of at Tufts University in 2001 and a residency in threatening world ecosystems. He is committed Maryland in 2000. Postgraduate work included small animal internal medicine at Michigan to making Africa and the world a better place an internship at the U.S. Department of State University in 2004 before starting at through an ACP3 approach and achieving the Agriculture Plum Island Animal Disease Center,

38 2014 AAVMC Annual Conference Speaker Biographies which focused on foot and mouth disease and enthusiasm for the One Health approach and its 2005, he had his second postdoc training at African swine fever, and a residency in applied applications to solving complex health problems University of Missouri-Columbia, where his epidemiology at the Virginia-Maryland Regional locally and abroad. She is the co-project director training focused on algorithm development for College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Travis’ of their student-lead One Health project in RNA folding as well as evolutional studies on current research includes disease surveillance Nicaragua. infectious diseases. and risk analysis of emerging zoonotic infectious diseases from an ecosystem health perspective. Jacinta Mukulu Waila, BScN, Kenya Sylvia Wanzala, BVM, is a veterinarian Teaching interests include epidemiology, Registered Community Health Nurse, from Makerere University, Uganda. She is also infectious diseases, international medicine, and is a One Health resident and a Master of the One Health resident mentor for the first co-creation of an integrative program exploring Public Health student at Makerere University One Health residency program in the world relationships between biodiversity and health. Kampala, Uganda. She is a Kenyan graduate housed at the College of Veterinary Medicine, nurse from the University of Nairobi. Before Animal Resources and Biosecurity (COVAB), Saul Tzipori, DVM, PhD, DSC, FRCVS, joining the One Health residency program, Makerere University. The program is currently has many years of research experience working Ms. Waila worked in the Ministry of Health in funded by the U.S. Agency for International with infectious diseases of humans and Kenya based at Nyeri provincial general hospital Development RESPOND program through domestic animals, with particular reference where she rotated in all the departments and the One Health for Central and Eastern Africa to food and waterborne enteric pathogens perfromed technical and managerial duties. She (OHCEA) secretariat. Dr. Wanzala has great (viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoa) and bacterial also worked among the Turkana and Maasai interest in infectious diseases with particular toxins. This includes investigating disease pastoral communities in Kenya implementing emphasis on the zoonotic aspects of the pathogenesis, screening and evaluation of maternal child health and nutrition and HIV Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and its chemical or immune-based therapeutic agents, prevention projects, respectively. The residency debilitating effects on the health of people and and vaccines. He is best known for his expertise program has been a great exposure for her in animals particularly in resource limited settings. and contribution to zoonotic pathogens appreciating the role veterinarians and other Dr. Wanzala received her master’s degree in cryptosporidiosis, microsporidiosis, E. coli health professional play in health promotion, molecular biology and biotechnology and is also O157:H7, shigellosis, and Clostridium difficile protection, and disease prevention through completing her Master of Public Health degree in terms of model-development, vaccine, and involvement in various projects and training. from the University of Minnesota. This has therapeutics. PubMed currently lists more Some of the major projects undertaken so far helped her further appreciate the role of various than 260 publications accurately reflecting the include the joint vet-nursing-public health factors in public health. In addition Wanzala nature of Dr. Tzipori’s scientific work. He has field attachment and the farm to table study has worked with local communities in Uganda directed multiproject and multicenter scientific program in Uganda and Minnesota, among which have helped shape and inform her desire programs nationally and globally, funded by others. Dr. Waila hopes that she will be able to to pursue and focus her career on public health. various government and nongovernmenal use One Health competencies gained through organizations. Tzipori led programs devoted experiential learning under the residency Iwan Willyanto, DVM, MSc, PhD, is to development of countermeasures against program in tackling public health challenges, employed by InI Veterinary Service Education biodefense agents. He currently is the especially with regard to maternal child health and is founder and owner of InI Veterinary Tufts principal investigator of a project on and nutrition, which is her main area of interest. Service, a small animal clinic and animal health global health, funded by the U.S. Agency for consultation, in Surabaya, Indonesia. Dr. International Development under the umbrella Xiu-Feng Wan, DVM, MS, PhD, is an Willyanto has worked as a lecturer on small of Emerging Pandemic Threats. associate professor in systems biology at the and large animal internal medicines, Airlangga Department of Basic Sciences, the College University and as head of the Department Linda Valeri, MBA, is the director of of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State of Veterinary Internal Medicine and vice operations for the Center for Animal Health University (MSU). Dr. Wan’s long-term director on academic affairs of Airlangga and Food Safety (CAHFS) in the College of career goal is to understand how zoonotic University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. He Veterinary Medicine (CVM) and the Global pathogens especially influenza A viruses is a member of The Expert Group on Animal Initiative for Food Systems Leadership (GIFSL). emerge and reemerge at the animal-human Health of the Ministry of Agriculture, The The initiatives of the center are focused on interface by developing and applying systems Republic of Indonesia. Dr. Willyanto is also collaborative research and education on biology approaches. He identified A/goose/ national consultant on epidemiology of avian issues at the interface of human, animal, Guangdong/1/1996 (H5N1), the precursor influenza control at the United Nations Food and environmental health. As director for virus causing current H5N1 bird flu threat, and Agriculture Organization. He is also the center, Ms. Valeri develops and nurtures during his graduate study in China. He recently consultant for several research projects of Tufts strategic partnerships with national and global developed AntigenMap, which is useful for Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in stakeholders in industry, governmental, and antigenic variant detection and vaccine strain Indonesia, several ILRI research projects on intergovernmental organizations. She also selection. Before joining MSU, Dr. Wan Avian Influenza in Indonesia, and for an EcoZD identifies and develops strategic partnerships was a senior service fellow in the Influenza Bali Rabies study and APEIR Antimicrobial across the University of Minnesota to advance Division of the Centers for Disease Control and Residue Research. Dr. Willyanto also works and support the center’s One Health initiatives. Prevention. He was appointed as an assistant on the Indonesia Focal Point of VWB-BECA Before coming to the University, she held professor in the Department of Microbiology at Project and the U.S. Agency for International executive leadership roles in healthcare, Miami University from 2005 to 2007. Dr. Wan Development RESPOND Project. Willyanto environmental science, and clinical chemistry. received his veterinary degree from Jiangxi graduated as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Ms. Valeri also serves as a community facilitator Agricultural University, a Master of Science in from Airlangga University, Surabaya on for InCommons: a new model for community avian medicine from South China Agricultural 1979. He was awarded a Master of Science problem solving supported by the Bush University, and his Doctor of Philosophy in in (1982) and Doctor of Foundation. veterinary medicine and minor in biochemistry Philosophy in veterinary epidemiology (1994) and molecular biology from MSU in 2002. He from James Cook University, Australia. Carolina Vicario is a second-year student at also earned his master’s degree in computer the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of science from MSU in 2002. From 2002 to 2003, Catherine Woteki, MS, PhD, is California (UC), Davis. She attended Claremont he joined the Microbial Ecology and Functional undersecretary for the U.S. Department of McKenna College where she completed her Genomics Group at Oak Ridge National Agriculture’s (USDA) Research, Education, and senior thesis in neuroscience. As co-president Laboratory as a postdoc fellow, and his training Economics (REE) mission area and the USDA’s of the Students for One Health Club at UC, focused on bioinformatics, functional genomics, chief scientist. Before joining USDA, Dr. Woteki Davis, Ms. Vicario’s goal is to promote student and environmental ecology. From 2003 to served as global director of scientific affairs for

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Mars, Inc. where she managed the company’s Mexico (UNAM) and received a Doctor of Endowed Chair at ISU from 2003 to 2012. scientific policy and research on matters of Philosophy in endocrinology at the University He recently served as chair-elect, chair, and health, nutrition, and food safety. From 2002 to of California, Davis. In México he has been councilor for Division Z (Animal Health) of the 2005, she was dean of agriculture and professor president of the Academy for Research in American Society for Microbiology from 2008 of human nutrition at Iowa State University. Reproductive Biology, the Mexican Association to 2011. Dr. Woteki served as the first undersecretary of Veterinary Schools, the Mexican Veterinary for food safety at the USDA from 1997 to 2001, Medical Association, the National Council of Debra Zoran, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, where she oversaw U.S. Government food safety Veterinary Education, and the National Council is an associate professor and chief of small policy development and USDA’s continuity of of Animal Health. At the international level animal internal medicine in the Department operations planning. Dr. Woteki also served as Zarco has been president of the Panamerican of Veterinary Small Animal Clinical Sciences the deputy undersecretary for REE at USDA in Federation of Veterinary Medical Colleges and at Texas A&M University (TAMU), where she 1996. Before joining USDA, she served in the councilor from Latin-America to the World has been a member of the faculty since 1996. White House Office of Science and Technology Veterinary Association. At the present time he is There she completed a Doctor of Philosophy Policy as deputy associate director for science the president of the Panamerican Association of in nutrition in the laboratory of Dr. Joanne from 1994 to 1996. Dr. Woteki has also held Veterinary Sciences (PANVET) and member of Lupton in 1992. A 1984 graduate of Kansas State positions in the National Center for Health UNAM´s Board of Governors. University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Statistics of the U.S. Department of Health Zoran next entered private clinical practice in and Human Services. In 1999, Dr. Woteki Qijing Zhang, BVSc, MS, PhD, is a professor the Phoenix, Arizona area, returning to Iowa was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the in veterinary microbiology and preventive State University in 1987 for her small animal National Academy of Sciences, where she has medicine and associate dean for research and internal medicine residency. She completed chaired the Food and Nutrition Board. She graduate studies at the College of Veterinary a master’s degree and became a Diplomate of received her Master of Science and Doctor of Medicine at Iowa State University (ISU). the American College of Veterinary Internal Philosophy in human nutrition from Virginia Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on foodborne Medicine in small animal internal medicine Polytechnic Institute and State University, and zoonotic pathogens and antimicrobial during her time there. At TAMU, Zoran is her Bachelor of Science in biology and chemistry resistance. Particularly, he has devoted his actively involved with clinical, teaching, and from Mary Washington College. efforts to understanding the development, research activities in small , persistence, and ecology of antibiotic resistance disaster preparedness, gastroenterology, and Luis Zarco, MVZ, PhD, has been a professor in Campylobacter. Dr. Zhang has published feline medicine. Since 2011, she has been of animal reproduction at UNAM’s veterinary extensively in the area of antibiotic resistance the medical operations chief of the TAMU college since 1985 and was dean of the college and served on a number of National Institutes Veterinary Emergency Team and has worked from 1997 to 2005. His lines of research include of Health and U.S. Department of Agriculture with the Texas Task Force 1 Search and Rescue seasonality of small ruminants in tropical and grant review panels. He has also served as a dogs since 2000. Dr. Zoran is currently the subtropical regions, as well as embryo and reviewer or an editorial board member for many president of the American College of Veterinary fetal mortality of endocrine origin in domestic scientific journals. Dr. Zhang was a recipient Internal Medicine. animals. Dr. Zarco studied veterinary medicine of the Pfizer Award for Research Excellence at the National Autonomous University of in 2007 and the holder of Frank K. Ramsey

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Wednesday, March 12

Board of Directors Meeting Edison EF

Thursday, March 13

Congressional Reception Advocacy Briefing Advocacy Meetings Breakfast Capitol Hill Edison EFG Capitol Hill and NIH 5:00 – 7:00

Friday, March 14

New Reps Opening Plenary Session Educational Session I Breakfast Welcome Edison DABC Edison DABC AAVMC Distinguished Reception President's Reception and Veterinary Teacher Poster Session Award Luncheon, Edison DABC and Foyer Presented by Zoetis Academic Affairs Committee 6:30 - 8:30 Edison EFG Edison DABC Educational Session II Edison EFG Research Committee Wright

Saturday, March 15

Educational Session III Educational Session IV Breakfast Edison DABC Edison DABC

Recognition Lecture Luncheon Edison DABC Twinning JVME Editorial Admissions Educational Session Admissions Workshop Orientation Board Edison EFG Edison EFG Edsn. EFG Whitney

Sunday, March 16

Career Fair Information Session I Edison ABC Educational Session VI Closing Workshop Edison DABC Edison DABC Career Fair Information Session II Edison EFG Breakfast

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