KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof Tim Carpenter - The spatial epidemiologic (r)evolution: a look back in time

Tim Carpenter BSc, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology
Dept. of Medicine and Epidemiology
The University of California, Davis

Dr. Carpenter's research is primarily aimed at methodologic approaches in epidemiology. They include risk analysis, time-space cluster analysis, economics of disease control and simulation modeling. He is co-director of the Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS). Dr. Carpenter is involved with a variety of projects focusing on simulation modeling: foot-and-mouth disease spread and control in the US, toxoplasma transmission in the California sea otter, and avian influenza spread and control.
http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/tecarpenter/

Prof Nigel French - Modelling spatial data to inform the surveillance and control of infectious disease: new tools provide new insight

Nigel French BVSc, MSc, PhD
Professor of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health
Director mEpiLab, Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand

Nigel is the Director of mEpiLab (http://mepilab.massey.ac.nz), a group specialising in molecular epidemiology and pathogen evolution. He is currently working on the development and application of tools for understanding the epidemiology, evolution and emergence of infectious diseases, and informing the control of food and environmental pathogens such as Campylobacter, E. coli, Cryptosporidium and Salmonella.

Nigel is a veterinary graduate from the University of Bristol, and was awarded a PhD for his work on flystrike in sheep in 1993 (University of Bristol). He has held lectureships at the Universities of Liverpool and Bristol. He was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship in 1999 and a Personal Chair in Veterinary Epidemiology, University of Liverpool, in 2002. Prior to joining Massey, he was Head of the DEFRA Epidemiology Fellowship Unit. Nigel is an Investigator in the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, and an Associate member of the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Studies.

Dr Andres Perez - Global surveillance using novel spatial methods

Andres Perez DVM PhD
National Council of Scientific Research (CONICET), Argentina and Associate Director, Center for Animal Disease Modelling and Surveillance, University of California, Davis

Andres is a veterinarian and epidemiologist, originally from Argentina, who has worked on diagnosis, spatial analysis, modeling, and surveillance of food animal diseases for over 10 years. In 2008 he became an Associate Director of CADMS and Co-Director of the FMD Laboratory. During the last 5 years he has published >30 papers on epidemiological modeling and surveillance of infectious animal diseases.
http://fmd.ucdavis.edu/people.php

Prof Dirk Pfeiffer - Using data and knowledge-driven approaches for spatial modelling

Dirk Pfeiffer DrMedVet MACVSc PhD DipECVPH
Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology
Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
The Royal Veterinary College

Dirk is a Professor of Epidemiology. He is currently working on several projects covering animal diseases such as avian influenza, African swine fever and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in companion animals.
http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Staff/pfeiffer.cfm

Dr Christoph Staubach – Spatio-temporal modelling and surveillance of wildlife diseases

Christoph Staubach Dr Med Vet
Institute of Epidemiology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI),
Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Wusterhausen, Germany.

Christoph graduated from the Munich Veterinary School and worked for the last 15 years as epidemiologist at the FLI. He conducted studies on the spatial epidemiology of infectious animal diseases using GIS and Remote Sensing. Christoph coordinated and developed web-based multifunctional surveillance database with extensive GIS components regarding Avian Influenza in wild birds and CSF in wild boar. His main research interest is currently the assessment and optimization of surveillance data regarding wildlife diseases using spatio-temporal models.

http://www.fli.bund.de/en/startseite/institute/institut-fuer-epidemiologie/wissenschaftler/dr-christoph-staubach.html

Prof Michael Ward - Companion animal disease surveillance: a new frontier or an old problem?

Michael Ward BVSc, MSc, MPVM, PhD, FACVSc
Chair, Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety
Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney

Michael is a veterinary epidemiologist with experience in analytical epidemiological methods, spatial epidemiology and simulation modeling. He over 20 years experience in conducting research on diseases of livestock, including bluetongue in Australia, foot-and-mouth disease in Argentina and West Nile virus in the U.S. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, and on the Editorial Boards of Zoonoses and Public Health and Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology.

Michael is a graduate of the University of Queensland and has held positions within the Queensland Department of Primary Industries as well as the veterinary schools at Purdue University (Indiana) and Texas A&M University. He returned to Australia from Texas in December to take up the new position of Chair of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety within the Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney.


http://sydney.edu.au/vetscience/about/staff/mward.shtml