Summer Fellowship in Veterinary Public Policy: Bioterrorism

June 21- July 2, 2004

Sponsor: Nutramax Laboratories, Inc.

Biographies of the Fellows 2004


Program Agenda

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June 21, 2004 Monday

10:00 Welcome
Bettye K. Walters, DVM
Director, Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine


Introduction to the Summer Fellowship and student introductions
Ted Y. Mashima, DVM, DACZM
Associate Director, Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine
Sarita Copeland, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland

Abbey Elizabeth Butler, University of Wisconsin
Ellen Carlin, Cornell University
Mary "Beth" Collier, University of Tennessee
Ashley Dietz, Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
Adrienne Dunham, Tuskegee University
Sherry Hill, Colorado State University
Dan Kovich, University of Minnesota
Jamee Black-Moorman, Michigan State University
Jennifer "Niki" Parrott, Auburn University
1:00 Agroterrorism: role-playing as international leaders
Kenneth E. Nusbaum, DVM, PhD, DACVM (via videoconference)
Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University


June 22, 2004 Tuesday

10:30 Agroterrorism: role-playing as international leaders
Student presentations

Kenneth E. Nusbaum, DVM, PhD, DACVM (via videoconference)
Associate Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University
2:00 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research/Naval Medical Research Center
Welcome and introduction
Laboratory animal medicine

COL Patricia Nossov, DVM, MSS, DACLAM, DACVPM
Director, Division of Veterinary Medicine, WRAIR

Bioterrorism/biowarfare research issues
LTC Dana Scott, DVM, DACVP
Chief, Consultation and Training Division
Department of Veterinary Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Department of Defense veterinarians and biological threat reduction in the former Soviet Union
MAJ James Sheets, DVM, MPH, DACLAM, DACVPM
Chief, Laboratory Animal Medicine Division
Department of Veterinary Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Regulatory requirements: select agents in animals
Tour of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
LTC Alec Hail, DVM, DACLAM
Chief, Department of Animal Medicine
Division of Veterinary Medicine, WRAIR


June 23, 2004 Wednesday

9:30 Congressional hearing dynamics
Craig A. Reed, DVM
Former Administrator, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service
US Department of Agriculture
Visiting Professor, Va-Md Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
10:00 Congressional Hearing - Washington, DC
Review of Agriculture Biotechnology
House Committee on Agriculture
Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research
Michael D. Dykes, DVM (testimony presented)
Vice President, Government Affairs, Monsanto Company
2:00 Animal Plant Health Inspection Service
US Department of Agriculture
Tour of the APHIS Emergency Operations Center
Tracy S. DuVernoy, DVM, MPH, DACVPM
Senior Staff Veterinarian
Susan B. Cosgrove
AEOC Manager, Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security


June 24, 2004 Thursday

10:00 Maryland Emergency Management Agency - Reisterstown, MD
Welcome
John W. Droneburg
Director, MEMA

Introduction to MEMA and tour Quentin W. Banks, Jr.
Public Information Officer

Agricultural emergencies: preparedness and response planning
Jacob Casper, DVM
Coordinator of Disaster Services, Maryland Department of Agriculture
12:00 How MDA's Animal Health is preparing for agroterrorism
Phyllis Cassano, DVM
State Veterinarian and Chief of Animal Health
Maryland Department of Agriculture
John R. Brooks, DVM
Deputy Secretary, Maryland Department of Agriculture
1:00 Agroterrorism and Public Health: Reestablishing an Old Relationship
sponsored by South Central Center for Public Health Preparedness
John C. Kelliher, DVM (via satellite broadcast)
Associate State Public Health Veterinarian
Alabama Department of Public Health
3:00 Nutramax Laboratories, Inc. - Edgewood, MD
Welcome
Todd Henderson, DVM
Executive Vice President

Compliance with the Bioterrorism Act of 2002
Kristen Blanchard
Vice President, Legal & Government Affairs

Biosecurity and tour of facility
Pete Patras
Vice President, Manufacturing
Barbara Eves, DVM
Director of Veterinary Sciences Division
7:05 Baltimore Orioles baseball game in skybox - Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD
courtesy of Nutramax Laboratories, Inc.


June 25, 2004 Friday

9:00 United States Department of Defense - Arlington, VA
Tour of the Pentagon
Careers with the Department of Defense
COL Roger L. Gibson, PhD, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, US Air Force
Executive Secretary, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board
LTC Brad Hildabrand, DVM, MPVM, DACVPM, US Army
Acting Deputy Director, Department of Defense Veterinary Service Activity
COL Kathleen Carr, DVM, PhD, DACVPM, US Army
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
10:00 "Silent Prairie" briefing
CAPT Zdenka S. Willis, US Navy
Director, SecDef Strategic Policy Forum
Senior Military Fellow, National Defense University
2:00 American Veterinary Medical Association
Governmental Relations Division
Raymond W. Stock, VMD, MBE
Assistant Director
Mark Lutschaunig, VMD, MBA
Assistant Director
Gerald Rushin, DVM, JD
Assistant Director
Robert Hay, Jr.
Program and Administrative Coordinator

Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges
Andrew T. Maccabe, DVM, MPH, JD
Associate Executive Director
5:30 Dinner at Dr. Bonnie Buntain's

Food Safety and Inspection Service, US Department of Agriculture
Bonnie Buntain, DVM, MS, DEABVP
Chief Veterinary Public Health Officer


June 28, 2004 Monday

10:00 Summer Fellowship project
Ted Y. Mashima, DVM, DACZM
Associate Director, Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine


June 29, 2004 Tuesday

9:00 Risk communication and media interaction
William D. Hueston, DVM, PhD, DACVPM (via videoconference)
Director, Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, University of Minnesota
10:00 Public Health Service
CAPT Cindy Pond, DVM, MS
PHS Commissioned Corps Program Manager
Food Safety and Inspection Service, US Department of Agriculture
12:00 Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
Sarah A. Lister, DVM, MPH, DACVPM
Specialist in Public Health and Epidemiology
2:00 Department of Health and Human Services
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Tour of the HHS Secretary's Command Center
Karen Becker, DVM, MPH
Senior Health Advisor
Dean A. Ross
Director of the Secretary's Command Center


June 30, 2004 Wednesday

10:00 National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution
Tour of veterinary hospital
Sharon Deem, DVM, PhD, DACZM, Associate Veterinarian
1:30 Syndromic surveillance of wildlife as a first-line of defense against bioterrorism
Jonathan M. Sleeman, VetMB, DACZM, MRCVS
Director of Veterinary Services, Wildlife Center of Virginia
2:30 Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
Michelle M. Colby, DVM, MS
AAAS/Nuclear Threat Initiative Fellowship in Global Security


July 1, 2004 Thursday

10:00 White House tour
Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
Lawrence Kerr, PhD
Assistant Director for Homeland and National Security
Michelle M. Colby, DVM, MS
AAAS/Nuclear Threat Initiative Fellowship in Global Security
11:30 Homeland Security Council, Executive Office of the President
Curt J. Mann, DVM
Director of Food, Agriculture, and Water Security, Biodefense Directorate
2:00 US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Veterinary Medicine - Rockville, MD
Welcome and overview
Stephen F. Sundlof, DVM, PhD
Director, Center for Veterinary Medicine

Center for Veterinary Medicine and bioterrorism
Alfred W. Montgomery, DVM
Counterterrorism Coordinator, Division of Compliance

Protecting the animal feed supply
George Graber, PhD
Deputy Director, Office of Surveillance and Compliance

Veterinary Medical Assistance Teams and disaster relief
Bernadette Dunham, DVM, PhD
Deputy Director, Office of New Animal Drug Evaluation


July 2, 2004 Friday

9:30 Closing
Siba Samal, BVSc, PhD, DACVM
Associate Dean, VMRCVM, University of Maryland
10:00 Training programs in epidemiology and public health
Katherine Feldman, DVM, MPH, DACVPM
Assistant Director, Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine
10:30 Summer Fellowship project
Ted Y. Mashima, DVM, DACZM
Associate Director, Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine


Summer Fellowship 2003


For additional information, please contact:

Ted Y. Mashima, DVM, DACZM
Associate Director, Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine
University of Maryland
8075 Greenmead Drive
College Park, MD 20742-3711
(301) 314-6815 Fax: (301) 314-6855
tmashima@umd.edu

For more information, contact Tim Hammond

Last updated: 03/19/2006