8:30AM - 11:30AM
Chaired: Mark McArthur & Wendy G Halpern
Sponsored by ASIP & the American College of Veterinary Pathologists

A Tapestry of Travel and Trade: An Overview of One Health in the Age of Globalization
8:30AM-9:15AM
Corrie Brown, University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

Corrie Brown received her B.Sc. in Animal Behavior from McGill University and her DVM from Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph (1981).  She completed a combined residency/PhD in Comparative Pathology at the University of California at Davis.  Board certification (ACVP) and PhD were both attained in 1986.  She was an assistant professor of pathology at Louisiana State University briefly before joining the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Plum Island, where, as Head of the Pathology Section, she specialized in the diagnosis and pathogenesis of foreign animal diseases.  In 1996, she joined the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine as Professor and Head of the Department of Veterinary Pathology.  She currently serves as Coordinator of International Veterinary Medicine for the College of Veterinary Medicine.  In 2003, she was honored with the university’s highest teaching award, being named a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor.  Her professional interests are in infectious diseases of food-producing animals, emerging diseases, and international veterinary medicine.  She has published or presented over 250 scientific papers and has testified to Congress on issues involving agroterrorism.  She has served on many industrial and federal panels, and been a technical consultant to numerous foreign governments on issues involving infectious diseases and animal health infrastructure. 

"Biodefense - How "Global" is Global?"
9:15AM-10:00AM
Gary D. Coleman, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, US Army
Colonel Coleman is currently assigned as the Deputy Chief, Medical Science and Technologies (S&T) Division, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, where he oversees research program development and execution addressing chemical and biological medical countermeasures.  He guides a team of scientists and acquisition professionals responsible for identifying technical gaps in the protection of the warfighter against chemical, radiologic, and biological warfare and terrorism threats.  Working within a joint military and inter-governmental environment, Colonel Coleman leads efforts to fund and guide development of medical countermeasure technologies to protect the warfighter.  His previous assignments include a stint as the Director, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Strategic Partnerships Office, Fort Detrick, Maryland.  In that capacity he was the USAMRMC representative to foreign militaries and governments, other U.S. government and military organizations and civilian institutions involved in collaborative research with the command.  His efforts resulted in new collaborative opportunities to leverage existing resources to further the advancement of medical research in support of the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Army.   Colonel Coleman has extensive experience supporting laboratory animal research as the Chair of the combined Walter Reed Army Institute of Research’s and Navy Medical Research Command’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, International.  He has also authored and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed articles and presented at national and international scientific meetings.
 

Bugs behaving badly
10:00AM-10:45AM
James M. Musser, Methodist Hospital Research Institute
James M. Musser, M.D., Ph.D. is the Executive Vice-President and Co-Director of the Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston. He holds the Fondren Foundation Distinguished Endowed Chair and directs the Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Diseases Research at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute. He also is vice chairman of the Department of Pathology at The Methodist Hospital. Dr. Musser received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine (1988). He performed postdoctoral research on the molecular population genetics of pathogenic bacteria in the laboratory of Professor R. K. Selander. After residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine (1991), where he was named professor of pathology and microbiology and immunology in 1998. In 1999, he accepted a position with the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, where he was Founding Chief, Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis. In 2003 he returned to Baylor as the James R. Davis professor of pathology, associate chairman of pathology, and director of the Center for Human Bacterial Pathogenesis. In 2005, he and his laboratory moved to the Methodist Hospital Research Institute. His laboratory works primarily on group A Streptococcus using genome-wide investigative strategies, with special emphasis on understanding molecular genetic events contributing to clone emergence and strain genotype-patient phenotype relationships.  He is a member of many professional societies, including the American Academy for Microbiology, Association of University Pathologists, American Society of Clinical Investigation, and Association of American Physicians. He has received many honors and awards, including the ICAAC Young Investigator Award (1992), and the Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Investigative Pathology Award (1999) and Chugai Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Scholarship (2007) sponsored by the American Society for Investigative Pathology. He has published 300 papers and book chapters in the field of bacterial infectious diseases.

Global Foodborne Threats or "Where Did That Mouthful of Food Come From?"
10:45AM-11:30AM
Robert H. Poppenga, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Dr. Robert Poppenga is Professor of Clinical Veterinary Toxicology and Section Head, Toxicology Laboratory at the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory (CAHFS), School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis.  He has over 20 years experience as a diagnostic veterinary toxicologist including previous positions at schools of veterinary medicine at Michigan State University and the University of Pennsylvania.  The Toxicology Laboratory at CAHFS is one of the busiest of its kind in the world and offers comprehensive diagnostic toxicology testing.  Methods developed by the Laboratory that have been applied to veterinary diagnostic investigations include perchlorate, amanitin, ricinine, melamine and related compounds and oleandrin, among others.  He is board-certified by the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology and has served that organization as Secretary-Treasurer, Vice-President, President and Chair of the Examination Committee.  He is currently serving on the Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine.  His research interests include diagnostic veterinary toxicology, wildlife toxicology and development of biomarkers for chemical exposure.  He teaches veterinary toxicology to veterinary students at the School of Veterinary Medicine and advises Residents in diagnostic veterinary toxicology at CAHFS.